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xav10 said:
Speaking of head injuries, it's become almost impossible for me to watch a league where you know the career lifespan is 3.5 years, a ridiculous percentage will be bankrupt within 5 years after that and those whose careers last have a very good chance of ending up seriously messed up in the brain. All that has sadly taken my enjoyment out of it. So I watch soccer (go ahead, call me anti-American for that...).
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Have you heard this ? You'll probably enjoy it
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/freakonomics-radio/id354668519?mt=2&i=1000391939457
 
xav10 said:
Speaking of head injuries, it's become almost impossible for me to watch a league where you know the career lifespan is 3.5 years, a ridiculous percentage will be bankrupt within 5 years after that and those whose careers last have a very good chance of ending up seriously messed up in the brain. All that has sadly taken my enjoyment out of it. So I watch soccer (go ahead, call me anti-American for that...).
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No chance " Enhancements " have anything to do with the High percentage of Brain Injuries....Nah.
 
xav10 said:
Speaking of head injuries, it's become almost impossible for me to watch a league where you know the career lifespan is 3.5 years, a ridiculous percentage will be bankrupt within 5 years after that and those whose careers last have a very good chance of ending up seriously messed up in the brain. All that has sadly taken my enjoyment out of it. So I watch soccer (go ahead, call me anti-American for that...).
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When I was a child, we housed a foster child for a year who attended the high school where my father taught. He played on the high school football team. My earliest memory of a sporting event is one game where he got his bell rung so badly on a play that he couldn't find the huddle and was just wandering around the field.
 
Ricky Fandango said:
The NFL is a mess because the idiots who run it are a bunch of PC fucktards.
Politics, and mainly leftist politics,have destroyed a once great American tradition.
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Ah come on now, not everything you disagree with is, "leftist". Goodell is staunchly conservative and his inability to progress is a large part of the problem . . . he is "conservative", he is not a Trumpist. He is a rightist, just not a conspiracy theorist, tabloid believing, Russia loving, alternative reality, anti-Constitutionalist.
 
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is allowing the Trump administration to maintain its restrictive policy on refugees.

The justices on Tuesday agreed to an administration request to block a lower court ruling that would have eased the refugee ban and allowed up to 24,000 refugees to enter the country before the end of October.

The order was not the court's last word on the travel policy that President Donald Trump first rolled out in January. The justices are scheduled to hear arguments on Oct. 10 on the legality of the bans on travelers from six mostly Muslim countries and refugees anywhere in the world.

It's unclear, though, what will be left for the court to decide. The 90-day travel ban lapses in late September and the 120-day refugee ban will expire a month later.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/ju...most-refugees/ar-AArQaf5?li=BBnbcA1&ocid=iehp
 
Hüsker Dü said:
Ah come on now, not everything you disagree with is, "leftist". Goodell is staunchly conservative and his inability to progress is a large part of the problem . . . he is "conservative", he is not a Trumpist. He is a rightist, just not a conspiracy theorist, tabloid believing, Russia loving, alternative reality, anti-Constitutionalist.
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You forgot Confederacy apologist.
 

Iconic statue of Father Junipero Serra vandalized in Santa Barbara

Santa Barbara police are looking for those who vandalized a statue of Father Junipero Serra in Santa Barbara, decapitating it and dousing it with red paint.
"We discovered it early Monday morning," Monica Orozco, executive director of the Old Mission Santa Barbara, said Tuesday. The mission immediately contacted Santa Barbara police, she said, noting that the statue of the iconic Franciscan friar was likely defaced late Sunday or early Monday.

Anthony Wagner, a spokesman for Santa Barbara police, confirmed Tuesday that investigators there are seeking those responsible for damaging the bronze sculpture. This includes looking at material the mission gave to police, Wagner said.

Santa Barbara police are also working with investigators in other cities where similar acts of vandalism have occurred. This includes investigators in Mission Hills, where another statue of Junipero Serra was vandalized in August.

As in Santa Barbara, vandals poured red paint over the statue. And they wrote "murder' across it. The Mission Hills statue is in a park near Mission San Fernando.


Vandals also decapitated a statue of Serra in Monterey in October 2015. This occurred a week after Serra was canonized. Some weeks later, red paint was thrown on the front door of Mission Santa Cruz.

Wagner would not say much more about the investigation, other than encouraging anyone with information on the incident to contact Santa Barbara police at 805-897-2300.

Officials with the Santa Barbara mission have yet to decide whether they will replace the statue, Orozco said.

Serra is credited with bringing Catholicism to California in the 18th century when it was a Spanish colony. He established missions up and down California as he traveled by foot from San Diego to San Francisco.
http://www.vcstar.com/story/news/20...ero-serra-vandalized-santa-barbara/657844001/
 
espola said:
When I was a child, we housed a foster child for a year who attended the high school where my father taught. He played on the high school football team. My earliest memory of a sporting event is one game where he got his bell rung so badly on a play that he couldn't find the huddle and was just wandering around the field.
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Child? Leather helmets?
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Ricky Fandango said:
The NFL is a mess because the idiots who run it are a bunch of PC fucktards.
Politics, and mainly leftist politics,have destroyed a once great American tradition.
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For sure. All those billionaire team owners and the $35m/year commissioner who works for them are a bunch of lefties who want social justice and wealth redistribution. LOL.
 
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