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How to delete a header and football
How to delete a header and football







how to delete a header and football

Todd counters that we pay lots of people in lots of other professions for the risks they take, the danger they put their bodies in. NFL team owners, who make money from the spectacle, are more on a level with Leonardo DiCaprio in Django Unchained. Football fans are like Roman citizens cheering as gladiators fight to the death in the Colosseum. The money is there, so if one 20-year-old does muster up the sense to say no, there’ll be 20 others waiting in line to say yes. Huge amounts of money, let-your-parents-retire-and-set-up-the-next-generation-of-your-family-to-go-to-college money, “make him an offer he can’t refuse” money. The onus is on us, the fans (and, more directly, the team owners) who pay the players to hurt themselves for our enjoyment. Is there inconsistency in my calling for an end to the NFL?īut I approach the issue from the other side: it’s not the players who I am calling immoral. Todd brings up my individualistic positions on abortion (pro-choice) and drug use (legalize it) and assisted suicide (same) in his efforts to sway me.

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Todd’s defense of professional football is based on the notion of freedom: NFL players are adults, he says, and they should be free to do whatever they want with their bodies, including destroy them by playing a game for which they get paid a lot of money. I have been arguing about this a lot over the past year with my friend Todd, who is a football fan and also a good person, I believe. The game as it is played today kills the people who play it, period. It’s the speed and power with which players ram their helmeted heads into other players that’s the problem. Efforts to make it safer with better equipment will not work, because the damage happens inside the players’ skulls, when the brain sloshes around and smashes against its bone casing. The new Will Smith movie, Concussion, is based on one of the many books detailing the mountain of scientific evidence proving that the sport shortens lives. The damage football players suffer need not be debated at this point. But I value human life more than avian life, so I will continue to scold those of you who put the pleasure you derive from watching football (and in so doing, paying money to the NFL, propagating its immoral practices) above the wellbeing of the players you’re watching play. So I don’t take the moral high ground lightly. In eating it, I am putting my own pleasure over the wellbeing of another living creature. I know that its production involves torturing ducks, which I think is wrong. I ate foie gras with Christmas dinner last week and enjoyed it immensely.









How to delete a header and football