HonkTonkWoman

Neither am I. Those are grown adults getting paid adult wages & who are given adult options to measure their risk vs reward.

The second link doesn’t prove anything as long as football is still a billion dollar industry in this world. Study as many deceased brains as you like, doesn’t change the fact the living ones still like making millions of dollars smashing into one another.

I’m just not willing to call for the dissolution of the NFL or NCAA Football programs because of the possibility.

Football isn’t the enemy here. We put those folks on their pedestals & now everyone wants to blame them for being there.

> Yet again, I sincerely hope you get the help you need.

OH SUQIDZY WHERE HAVE YOU GONE!!!!!’

You are the only one who can help me, please don’t go. Please don’t leave my all alone with my multitudes of football fans.

I promise I’ll read your bible & subscribe to your newsletter. I’ll even badger all my friends on Facebook to purchase your magic elixir.

Just please don’t leave me, I’m so drunk and alone without you.

“Talkin’ tough’s easy when it’s other people’s evil & you’re judging what they do & don’t believe”

I really hope you start seeing other opinions as valid & that you can stop assuming everyone’s a drunken liar.

No, I’m onto my peyote now.

I really hope you get a sliver of pine wood to eye, from a Douglas fir lance, after a horse rolls up on your shattered pelvis, as you lie there wishing you had half the medical resources available to a football player.

Then maybe. Just maybe. You’ll acknowledge you aren’t the end all of be all of this conversation.

Once again, this is not society’s responsibility, it’s on the parents.

Don’t want your child to become a roided up rage monster with CTE? Don’t raise them up to believe that sports is their only way forward.

Sports are a path for SOME individuals & those individuals have the CHOICE to decide what is right for them & what isn’t.

Yes family pressure exists, but so does individual choice & the two conflict every day. Hell, I’ve got boobs & a vag despite my parents protestations & I’m better off for it.

For many of those individuals they only see sports as their path forward. Want them to find a better path? Show it to them…

But don’t judge them when they strike out down a path you don’t approve of, if you aren’t willing to provide a better solution.

Sitting here saying football shouldn’t exist because people get hurt is just lazy hand wringing & judgemental nonsense.

Don’t let your kids play it? That is your responsibility, not society’s.

Memory problems… you called me a liar for claiming jousting led to decapitations. I just proved myself correctly.

Seems like you’re the one sundowing here Goldie. Should we settle you down in front of Wheel of Fortune so you can vibe with your favorite bigot, Pat Sayjack?

Or maybe you prefer the feud & the hypocrite Steve Harvey.

You are the liar. Liar Liar Pants on Fire….

Look at you! Passing judgement on a stranger again!!

I don’t have a substance abuse problem. You have a stick up your patoot & crave the approval of this comments section.

Just acknowledge your opinion isn’t gospel. Just acknowledge you don’t have all the info on jousting you think you have. Just acknowledge you don’t like football & don’t think other should either.

It’s going to be a lonely mountain to stand on top of if you keep calling everyone who disagrees with you a drunken liar.

”Jousting was dangerous and could result in serious injuries, including broken bones, internal injuries, and even death. Injuries could include bruising, skewering, and decapitation”

[“Despite all these safeguards it could still be lethal, as Henry found out. "Twice, in 1524 and 1536, his love of jousting brought him within inches of death -  even for kings it was a dangerous sport", remarks Thom Richardson in his book”

Henri II of France died in 1559 when a splinter of lance pierced his eye-slit and Charles IX was seriously injured in 1561, which largely contributed to the decline in jousting in France, according to Zeev Gourarier in his article "From the game of ‘catching the brass ring’ to the roundabout" (Livrustkammaren, Journal of the Royal Armoury, 1991-2).](https://www.livescience.com/jousting)

Never got angry about any of this, you sure do like reading other people’s intentions incorrectly.

And yes, you joined a thread talking about the efficacy of additional protection of football players & suggested that rather than embracing that protection as a step in the right direction, the sport just should just cease to exist.

Ergo… You’re calling for dissolution of multi billion dollar industry because you don’t like it.

And and… I’m not wrong about jousting. Jousting was blood sport plain & simple. No one ever tried to make jousting a safer sport. Not for the humans & not for the horses.

Now, let’s just get this next part over with quickly…

Please go ahead and call me a liar again so you can embrace smug sense of superiority & go on about your day.

Not embarrassed in the least. I’m not the one calling for dissolution of an industry I disapprove of.

Have you gotten off your high horse & stopped passing judgement on strangers who disagree with you?

Tequila & toothpaste time!!! Happy Monday.