On Sun, 21 Jan 2018 22:44:03 -0500, wrote:

On Sun, 21 Jan 2018 15:22:15 -0500, John H
wrote:

On Sun, 21 Jan 2018 13:59:19 -0500, wrote:

On Sun, 21 Jan 2018 13:47:08 -0500, John H
wrote:

On Sun, 21 Jan 2018 12:30:50 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote:

On 1/21/2018 11:57 AM, Keyser Soze wrote:
On 1/21/18 11:35 AM, wrote:
On 21 Jan 2018 14:45:06 GMT, Keyser Soze wrote:



Why didn’t President ******** simply sign an Exec Order mandating
broadcast
of the game?*

He could have just stroked a check to pay those AFN people necessary
to get that out on the air. I doubt it would take more than a few
dozen people for a day or two (who are not already called essential
and working anyway). He paid more than that to cut the grass at Mar a
Lago this week


I knew two pro football players pretty well. One was a year ahead of me
at my high school and the other I met as an adult. The latter was a
neighbor of a close friend. One was a halfback and the other was a
linebacker, and both were stars. In any case, both were glad to get out
of the game with their brains intact and their bodies in reasonably
decent shape. The funny thing is the high school fella was a terrific
basketball player, too, and he might have had a longer and safer career
in the NBA.

Another great player I did get to see play in college was Gale Sayers.
He had a great but short career in the NFL, got out, had several
successful careers in sports and business but I read recently he is
suffering from dementia, probably as a result of the head injuries he
suffered playing pro football.

I wonder how much longer the NFL will be allowed, what with the
seriousness and extent of the brain injuries.


The NFL has come a long way with both protective gear, severe penalties
for unnecessary hits or roughness and mandatory concussion protocols.

The days of "Mean Joe Greene" and players like him are over.


I think they should remove all the protective gear - rugby style. You don't hear much about
concussion problems with rugby players.

Then it would be soccer and nobody would watch. They used to admit the
NFL was all about the "big hits".

Not quite. Apparently you've not watched a lot of rugby. Much different than soccer and much more
action than our football.

We watched some rugby in New Zealand "Go All Blacks" and I agree it is
not exactly like soccer but more like it than NFL football. The
biggest single difference is no line of scrimmage.

We must be talking different sports. If soccer players hit like rugby players, they'd all be 'red
carded' off the field. Other than the requirement to move the ball downfield, I can't see many
similarities between soccer and rugby. Between rugby and football, yeah. You said it in your last
sentence.

On Sun, 21 Jan 2018 22:49:38 -0500, wrote:

On Sun, 21 Jan 2018 15:26:52 -0500, John H
wrote:

On Sun, 21 Jan 2018 14:23:06 -0500, wrote:

On Sun, 21 Jan 2018 18:58:09 -0000 (UTC), Bill
wrote:



As a statement I read onetime about Russian y would never read another one.
What is it about Russian novels that when you get to liking a character
they kill them off. Okay to kill a few but all of them? To depressing.

Don't read the winds of war ;-)

I very much enjoyed that series, wish it'd been longer.

But you have to admit spoiler alert the Nazis get a lot of people
you were just starting to like. I read "winds" and "Remembrance"
during a freezing trip to Chicago where taking a coat just tricks you
into thinking you can go outside. If there were others I missed them.

Nope, just those two. It's a shame he didn't work through the Korean and Vietnam wars. Good author
(IMHO), although I'm sure Krause would say he's trash.

On Sun, 21 Jan 2018 22:51:58 -0500, wrote:

On Sun, 21 Jan 2018 16:23:43 -0500, John H
wrote:

On Sun, 21 Jan 2018 12:55:30 -0800 (PST), Its Me wrote:

On Sunday, January 21, 2018 at 3:22:16 PM UTC-5, John H wrote:

Not quite. Apparently you've not watched a lot of rugby. Much different than soccer and much more
action than our football.

A co-worker's son was set to get a full-ride scholarship playing rugby. He was a star, and played on the "all star" team that played across the pond several times. He ended up hurting his knee and when it all shook out, it turned out he had been playing with a concussion for a year or so.

His "career" is now over, and after concussion rehab he's getting his academic and social capabilities back together, and going to college.

Sorry to hear about that. Injuries like that happen in soccer also, but not nearly as frequently as
with our style football. From what I've seen and read, the incidence of concussions among rugby
players is less than that of football players. Spinal injuries from the scrums is a big concern. Our
football doesn't have the scrums.

I heard once there are more injuries in girl's soccer than there are
in amateur football.

Now 'headers' are disallowed in most youth soccer.

https://www.today.com/parents/no-mor...-soccer-t54971

On Mon, 22 Jan 2018 00:29:40 -0500, wrote:

On Sun, 21 Jan 2018 17:18:39 -0500, Keyser Söze
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Some of us didn’t have to grow up on a dirt farm in Missouri and have to
shoot squirrels for dinner.

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Too bad for you - might have been better for it.

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Besides, we ate a lot more rabbit than squirrel. Rabbit traps were easy to make.

On Sun, 21 Jan 2018 17:18:39 -0500, Keyser Söze
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Some of us didn’t have to grow up on a dirt farm in Missouri and have to
shoot squirrels for dinner.

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That’s kinda how I look at it...

On 1/22/18 9:45 AM, Tim wrote:

On Sun, 21 Jan 2018 17:18:39 -0500, Keyser Söze
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Some of us didn’t have to grow up on a dirt farm in Missouri and have to
shoot squirrels for dinner.

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Growing up on a dirt farm in Missouri and shooting squirrels for dinner
seems to make one a racist.

8:50 AMKeyser Soze
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Growing up on a dirt farm in Missouri and shooting squirrels for dinner
seems to make one a racist.
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I guess so that is if squirrel is classsd as a “race�

On Mon, 22 Jan 2018 08:30:29 -0500, John H
wrote:

On Sun, 21 Jan 2018 22:44:03 -0500, wrote:


We watched some rugby in New Zealand "Go All Blacks" and I agree it is
not exactly like soccer but more like it than NFL football. The
biggest single difference is no line of scrimmage.

We must be talking different sports. If soccer players hit like rugby players, they'd all be 'red
carded' off the field. Other than the requirement to move the ball downfield, I can't see many
similarities between soccer and rugby. Between rugby and football, yeah. You said it in your last
sentence.

Most of the violence in football is within a few yards of the line of
scrimmage. That is why they have different rules there. You have a
half dozen 300 pound guys on each side, lined up face to face snarling
at each other and on the snap they crash into each other as hard as
they can, on every play. They are not even allowed to grab each other,
they have to just knock the other guy out of the way. What could
possibly go wrong? Compared to that a scrum is just a big group hug.

On Mon, 22 Jan 2018 06:59:06 -0800 (PST), Tim wrote:


8:50 AMKeyser Soze
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Growing up on a dirt farm in Missouri and shooting squirrels for dinner
seems to make one a racist.
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I guess so that is if squirrel is classsd as a “race”

LOL! There are a lot of solid black squirrels around here. I treat them exactly as I would any other
squirrel!

On Mon, 22 Jan 2018 09:50:35 -0500, Keyser Soze wrote:

On 1/22/18 9:45 AM, Tim wrote:

On Sun, 21 Jan 2018 17:18:39 -0500, Keyser Söze
wrote:

Some of us didn’t have to grow up on a dirt farm in Missouri and have to
shoot squirrels for dinner.

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That’s kinda how I look at it...


Growing up on a dirt farm in Missouri and shooting squirrels for dinner
seems to make one a racist.

Minnesota, Harry. And mostly rabbits. Squirrels are harder'n hell to clean.