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bohumm -> RE: College Football (Future Vikings!) (1/1/2014 10:17:49 AM)
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So the qb from VaTech blows up a lb on a run, its clean. 2 plays later he gets legally crushed by a different lb, on a very legal hit and its "uneccesary roughness"?
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Link?
What's this about?
The 15 yard unsportsmanlike was deserved imo. He knew damn well that ball was out a step and a half before he knocked the shit out of him. He could of easily pulled up. Obviously the message the world is trying to send isn't getting through. You can't tell me the hit was necessary. His sole intent was to punish. Hey, I don't like some of the rules and how they're enforced as much as the next guy but I get the Fn message. He didn't!
Link? Tune into Sports Center you'll see it
To be honest, i didn't think it was late and neither did the commentators. I don't know what they expect a guy running full speed to do.
Everybody will have to be their own judge of whether they think it was a good hit or not. I'm going to try and not pass judgement (except the commentators -- they sucked big time, imo; [;)] with regards to their commentary regarding the hit)
I thought about it later it I think it's the first time I've truly got pissed off at a hit in football - the machine is working on me regarding safer play I guess. That was a brutal hit and I'm not buying for a second that he couldn't stop because he was going full speed. He had at least a step and a half and there was no attempt to slow down. None! We have a LB playing D1 football for UCLA; he has the athletic ability to attempt to avoid that type of hit. No offense JJ but I'm not buying he full speed what's he supposed to do argument. For starters he can demonstrate an effort -- there was plenty of time. If it was his mother throwing the ball ......
Hey, I know it's a tough game blah blah. I'm not even exactly sure why it pissed me off, yet. I suspect it may have something to do with having a boy play high school football and I don't want him to receive any unnecessary hits especially like that one. Maybe it's the education I've (we) received on concussions over the last couple years. I don't know. I do know he was hell bent on sticking him as hard as he could when he could of been backing off. And right now I just don't feel good about that kind of mentality.
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ps - just remembered the hit on the punter a couple of weeks back. Didn't like it. I sense a change going on
Reading the book League of Denial, I really start to feel bad for enjoying football. It's kind of sick what happens to these guys if you actually pay attention.
I'm experiencing the same dissonance, even before seeing the Frontline episode based in part on the book. I just love watching football, but between the head injuries and the commercialism/stadium fraud, it gets harder every week to keep my denial intact. I stopped watching boxing years ago after watch a guy's head bounce on the canvas and seeing Ali and others post-career, but I never had any attachment to boxing.
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