I don't know, I thought it was a conversation about baseball.
Whatever. "You talk too much."
"I am flawed in that way."
Let me ask ya'll this: What does it matter if I were this LkP or whatever?
If I've turned over a new leaf, does it matter? I always find this obsession over personal identities weird.
I'm not them.
Anyway, this person posted about football, you will never read me talking about football, I will probably never reference it at all.
Here is why: football is utterly unethical and you should be like me and never watch it or have anything to do with it. Why?
So, above all else it is a brutally stupid sport that pits force against human health for the amusement of spectators, and it is filled with show-boating antics that represent the worst of our society. Also, it is part country and part metal which is like an Elf and a Dwarf falling in love (I will never forgive Peter Jackson for that disgusting addition to The Hobbit).
Football is older, but it became truly popular in the aftermath of Vietnam as the American worker began to experience the gradual decline in economic security. The sport epitomizes a violence that after the actual war of Vietnam was culturally cathartic particularly so during the class war waged within American cities and upon rural American main streets and farms by the despicable, above the fray owners and Wall Streeters.
But this would be acceptable, and not really a reason to call for a ban on the game were it not for the fact that football is fed by an utterly corrupt system of college athletics which exploits teenagers, generally poor teenagers, by offering them an education that should be free or cheap (in most cases these are public universities) in the first place. These football programs often cost universities money and the coaches who exploit these teens are generally the highest paid public employees in their state. These student-athletes (somehow not employees even though this is a billion dollar entertainment) face injury (potentially life-long), often receive poor educations (in many cases they simply do not understand the implications of that) all so that the coach and university can have a football team to market and so that the NFL can have a free feeder organization to filter talent for the pro-game.
I have never nor will I ever watch a college football game, anymore than I'd watch a dog fighting.
Now, this still isn't the worst, this multi-billion dollar industry needs children. This enormous and utterly unethical entertainment that makes a small amount of people enormously wealthy simply because they have the wealth to be owners, and makes a slightly larger group of players wealthy with generally some significant physical cost, and of course costs many other players similar physical tolls with maybe an educational reward begins by introducing children to violence. Not just introducing them to violence but by pitting them against each other in the game, puts them in positions to hurt and be hurt (again, potentially with life-long consequences).
Highschool and younger players face hidden and not hidden injuries in what amounts to the first tier of NFL player recruitment. This is so utterly f-d up that I really can't understand how it is even allowed to continue.
If I were king of the world one of my first year acts would be to do away with football.
As for the Lions, that would be no real loss, can we really say that they are really a football team? Aren't they just a perverse joke by the Ford family on Detroiters?
