Showing posts with label National Football League. Show all posts
Showing posts with label National Football League. Show all posts
Saturday, August 31, 2019

Your brain (injuries) on football: "Perhaps evolving standards of decency will reduce football to a marginalized spectacle, like boxing."

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Andrew Luck's exquisitely rational human decision to retire from football reminded me of George F. Will's essay, reprinted below....
Sunday, August 25, 2019

Andrew Luck has some money. He took back his life. More power to him.

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"No one else besides the NFL is stupid enough to keep engineering ways to sustain an unsustainable game." Andrew Luck's d...
Wednesday, August 21, 2019

"Jay-Z Isn’t a Sellout, He’s a Capitalist."

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Dave Zirin? He's perhaps the only sportswriter who truly matters. We are reminded of the importance of following the money. Jay-Z Isn...
Saturday, January 05, 2019

NFL: "A sport where player careers last only three and a half years is built on disposable black bodies, indifference to brain damage, and a country-club dismissal of black brain power."

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Ladies and gentlemen, just about the only sports writer who genuinely matters, precisely because he doesn't refrain from contextualiz...
Thursday, April 26, 2018

Every day, too: "NFL Owners Sure Came Off Like Dumbasses When They Met With Players About Protests."

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"Don’t ever get old. Don’t ever get rich." Terry Pegula, owner of the Buffalo Bills, might be interested to know that Charlto...
Friday, January 05, 2018

NFL Follies: "Billion dollar teams choosing to fail rather than sign Kaepernick is a scandal for reasons beyond wins and losses."

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I'm told that the national concussion league's playoffs begin this weekend, moving from wild cards and betting lines toward the in...
Sunday, November 26, 2017

Your NFL Sunday: "As Iceberg Slim might put it, the players and public alike have been sold a series of air castles."

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It's gaslighting all over again in this essay, which connects the autobiography of a pimp (spoiler: not a pretty story at all) to b...
Sunday, October 08, 2017

Mike Pence's NFL walkout proves our former governor still isn't "worth a bucket of warm piss."

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About which we are thankful that Dave Zirin sets matters straight about John Nance Garner's quote. Warm spit never made any sense to ...
Sunday, October 01, 2017

Learning how to kneel: "Over the past century, 'The Star-Spangled Banner' and baseball have become inextricably wed."

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It wasn't necessary for Colin Kaepernick to take a knee to dissuade me from watching football. Whatever waning interest remained was ...
Friday, September 29, 2017

Taking a knee with Nick Wright and Bill Hanson.

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Wright rests the case. Hanson? It's back to the same old symbols, not social justice. You know it's bad when you wish Chris...
Tuesday, September 26, 2017

(Psst -- it's not about the flag or the military, and it never has been.)

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I'm often reminded of Thomas Jefferson's words: "Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to ri...
Sunday, September 10, 2017

Colin Kaepernick and the NFL, a league "more comfortable with concussions than someone having a conscience.”

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From just about the only sportswriter in America who really matters ... "Dave Zirin is sports editor of the Nation and author of ...
Wednesday, September 06, 2017

Your brain (injuries) on football: "Perhaps evolving standards of decency will reduce football to a marginalized spectacle, like boxing."

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I'll keep it brief. In recent years, I’ve turned away from football because of the increasingly well-documented, regrettable, lifelong...
Sunday, February 05, 2017

"I’ll be breaking party lines this Super Bowl Sunday and rooting for (Tom Brady's) defeat."

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I seldom watch pro football, because the gladiatorial mythology so enthralling to many football fans sickens me. Paul Tagliabue Yearns fo...
Sunday, January 22, 2017

THE BEER BEAT: Football, how it used to be for me, why I seldom watch it at all -- and don't even mention those horrid beers.

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(Part two of two ... part one is here ) In the first part of this Sunday morning mental exercise, as we await the games later today that...

Football, and how the late Kevin Turner's parents now watch it differently.

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(Part one of two ... part two is here ) Nostalgia is a strange phenomenon. Consider those folks of a certain age and disposition residin...
Tuesday, March 08, 2016

Peyton Manning: "That dopey grin that’s sold countless pizzas."

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Hagiography? But Manning isn't an old hag -- he's a football player! Oh, dear. This looks like a case for SHANE'S EXCELLE...
Sunday, January 31, 2016

"Here’s a US import Britain should ban – and it’s not Donald Trump."

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I don't have any kids, but I understand why those of you who do rightly seek to protect them from things like drug use at an early a...
Sunday, February 08, 2015

From boxing to Westerns ... to pro football?

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By Tuesday of last week, it occurred to me that even though I'd avoided viewing the NFL's championship game as it occurred, Katy Per...
Friday, January 31, 2014

Are football fans in a "morally queasy position"?

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I covered much the same yardage a year ago, prior to the last Stupor Bowl. Brain injuries, the NFL, and my indifference ... to football. ...