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[–] 98 points 4 months ago (21 children)

Another option is to stop idolizing people that play a child's game for fame and profit.

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  • [–] 31 points 4 months ago (6 children)

    …While intentionally shortening their lives and destroying their bodies.

    Contact sports! Yay!

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  • [–] 58 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    There are a lot of people who destroy their bodies and shorten their lives for less than a multi-million dollar paycheck. I don't blame the players, I blame the system that leads them to this end. A poor kid who is good at football can pull their entire family out of poverty by taking a few blows to the head. It's not an individual's fault for choosing that.

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  • [–] 18 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    The problem is that it's easier to be a brain-damaged, ex-player millionaire than a brilliant scientist millionaire. This country shits on intelligence and worships entertainment

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Define easier... Being a brilliant scientist (or engineer) will get you comfortably a mid-6-figure job in and research lab. That will make you a millionaire in about a decade if you are responsible with your savings, and there's tens of thousands of those in the world, maybe hundreds.

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  • [–] 20 points 4 months ago (8 children)

    Gridiron football is NOT a child’s game, unsafe for them.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Same could be said for adults. We've created incentives for people to hurt themselves purely for entertainment. It's pretty barbaric.

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  • [+] -13 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    The people who play it, watch it, and obsess over it, may be physically grown but they are still children.

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  • [–] 12 points 4 months ago* (4 children)

    because they enjoy athletic competition? that’s a pretty strong statement.

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  • [–] -3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

    ok. neat. sports are the devil I guess because humans innately form in and out groups.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago

    Unfortunately this is a nation made largely of spectators. They don't do anything. They watch to live vicariously and make their whole identities celebrating the accomplishments of sportsballers, actors, and lately politicians 🤮.

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  • [–] -1 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I disagree. Morons need a healthy and safe outlet for their tribalism. When they don't get it, they instead indulge in culture war and politics as a way to go ugga bugga me vs you. Look around at how that plays out. I'd rather have drunk footballers and fistfights than the literal end of the world.

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