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January 12, 2015

It's half a joke that football players

are allowed anywhere near schoolchildren to lecture them on "fitness,"

and character. They are, almost to man, physical freaks who abuse drugs to cheat. They have nothing to offer the average person in the way of advice. They would be valuable if they were willing to participate in the school of rules, but they're not interested. The purpose of sports in general is to train people to compete with one another under a set of rules that apply equally to everyone. You're supposed to learn that the desired outcome does not dictate the rules. You're not supposed to work backwards from desired outcomes to determine the rules, either. You learn that if you are unable to get the outcome you desire, you're not supposed to resort to violence, cheat, or much more importantly, say you were cheated when you were not.
Sippican Cottage: Play Is the School of Rules

Posted by gerardvanderleun at January 12, 2015 5:39 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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Yeah, its a ridiculous joke. The same people who mock baseball for Steroids and Human Growth Hormone are huge football fans where the guys are so jacked up on drugs, chemicals, steroids, and everything else in the pharmacy and have been for decades.

Football as it stands in America cannot be played without this cocktail of chemicals pumped into every player. And its one of the most open, well known 'secrets' in sports, one that's pretty much ignored. There's so much money in football and its so protected by fans that they get away with it.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor [TypeKey Profile Page] at January 12, 2015 7:30 PM

Its pretty weird that so many Americans worship grown men who play a GAME with a little ball.

Posted by: pkerot [TypeKey Profile Page] at January 13, 2015 9:02 AM

I have never watched more than 15 minutes of any professional sports game ever, and that's in total.

That's in spite of the fact that the toob blares that shit all the time at all major family functions for the past 30+ years and that my wife is heavily addicted to football the whole time.

3 minutes of that boring shit and I'm dead to the world, snoozin like a big dawg.

And this is coming from a dood that played ALL the major team sports hugely in his youth.

Then I grew up and moved on, never looked back.

Posted by: ghostsniper [TypeKey Profile Page] at January 13, 2015 9:35 AM

"It's half a joke that football players are allowed anywhere near schoolchildren to lecture them on "fitness," and character. They are, almost to man, physical freaks who abuse drugs to cheat."

Using the 'Power Source' of competition any Rules-lawyer knows that with enough pressure and enough force, the testing of the elasticity of the rules eventually leads to to flaws within the rules: Flaws that can be exploited.

Going deeper into that Rabbit-Hole, you realize there are things where the rules don't apply.

Deeper still, breaking rules when 1) no one is looking, 2) there is enough chaos in the situation that you are freed to do a variety of things otherwise not part of the rules, 3) the 'zero-day' hole is exploited and no one is prepared to deal with it so you do as you please.

Somewhere along the line, it becomes obvious that it is no longer a sport, but it is a war (with total war having NO rules) - and is no longer fun as the realization that the most exotic and powerful elixir of competition has a most bitter tang to it:

The touch of murder.

Games are good clean fun and best played in the spirit of camaraderie and brotherhood - a past time to... pass time and have a good laugh. Being a Competitive Jerk spoils it not only for the others, but for the Jerk as well.

I think any form of obvious cheating or loss of temper should be punished severely as the person doing it is doing it win the wrong spriti of what the game is supposed to do.

Posted by: cond0011 [TypeKey Profile Page] at January 13, 2015 12:46 PM

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