On 1/15/2012 1:23 PM, Oscar wrote:
On 1/15/2012 12:26 PM, iBoaterer wrote:
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On 1/15/12 10:08 AM, JustWait wrote:
On 1/15/2012 9:27 AM, Happy John wrote:
On Sun, 15 Jan 2012 08:17:07 -0500, X `
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On 1/15/12 1:09 AM, wrote:
On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 21:11:23 -0800 (PST),
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On Jan 14, 10:07 pm,
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On 1/14/2012 10:52 PM, Earl wrote:

Happy John wrote:
On Fri, 13 Jan 2012 20:39:31 -0500,
wrote:

X ` Man wrote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dK9TP...&feature=share
Amazing performance but she will probably need knee and hip
surgery
before she's 50.
As my younger daughter, a cheerleader and gymnast in high
school, will
attest. She goes in for her
hip surgery in about a week.
That's a rough sport.

I met an NFL alum that played in the Super Bowl and he could
hardly walk
at 44 years old.

Wonder if he had any regrets...

Several years ago, there was a documentary done on the likes of
these
guys. Some were in wheel chairs. They were asked the same question,
and ironically most said they had no regrets at all and if able
would
'do it again'

One of my neighbors was an NFL DE (Tom Nomina, Denver and Miami) and
he only played 2 seasons in the show plus high school and
college. He
is suffering from a multitude of injuries (knee, back etc). These
guys
get the crap beat out of them.
He is a great guy tho and still helps out in the community as
much as
he can. Sometimes it is a little painful to watch.


Pro football has deteriorated into a gladiator sport where
deliberately
inflicting injuries on opposing players is encouraged. Even
professional
boxing is a more civilized sport, because you can be penalized or
even
disqualified for certain actions. I have a friend who was an all-pro
linebacker for the 'Skins. I think he played 10 seasons. I never
went to
see him play because I didn't want to see him sustain a horrific
injury.
Fortunately, he got out without his brains being scrambled. Pro
football
is a perfect metaphor for our callous society.

Perhaps discussions of your callous society belong in a political
forum. Pro football is trying to
clean up the purposeful head butting and has imposed some decent fines
and penalties therefore.

It's amazing how different the two opinions can be from one person who
watches and follows Football, and another who doesn't...


What happens to a motorcycle racer in your daughter's sport who
deliberately drives in a fashion that causes accidents and injuries to
the other racers? My guess is that he or she would be tossed, either for
a season or permanently. These sports are dangerous enough without
having "players" who are out there deliberately trying to injure other
participants.

How did you ever get through your youth without doing anything remotely
"dangerous"?
Mommy forbid it?

Assholes seem to have a way of getting themselves out of the game...
Seriously, nasty people, assholes with baggage, never make it to that
level, and if they do, things have a way of sorting themselves out on
the track. In the rare occasion that one does make it through, the
disdain and non-support of the rest of the "family" is not survivable.
Quite frankly, if the other riders (as in a lot of forms of racing)
don't trust you or are afraid of you, you can not survive on the track,
they will defend themselves... And it's not like MMA or football. When
these guys "fight" it isn't hands, feet, and pads, it's flesh and
metal... and usually pretty final.