American Football season is upon us and its killing me and its players.

[Woodsy]

So Sat when I was leaving the pub after watching a few matches, I noticed Collège football was already on; so now every weekend at every bar will be dominated Thursday- Monday afternoon and evening by football games & coverage, per usual.


Already had the first of the usual dozen or so per year deaths from the sport

Alabama high school football player dies after suffering injury during game
Associated Press
Sun, August 25, 2024 at 11:21 AM EDT·1 min read
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama high school football player died Saturday, a day after he was critically injured during a game.

Morgan Academy quarterback Caden Tellier was hurt following a tackle in the third quarter of the school's game Friday night against Southern Academy in Selma, headmaster Bryan Oliver told Al.com. Tellier, a 16-year-old junior, suffered a brain injury and was flown to the University of Alabama at Birmingham hospital Friday night, Oliver said.

Tellier's family announced his death on social media, Al.com reported.

“Our boy, Caden Tellier has met Jesus face to face. We appreciate all of your prayers, and we covet them for the hard days ahead," their statement said. "Everyone who knows Caden has known kindness, generosity and love, and true to his nature, he is giving of himself one more time. Lives have been touched by the way he lived and now lives will be saved through his passing.”

Oliver confirmed to the news website that Tellier was an organ donor.

“There are no words to describe how we feel as a school community and family,” Oliver wrote Saturday night in a statement on the school's Facebook page. “Caden will never be forgotten for who he was and what he means to Morgan Academy.”

The school is canceling all sports activities for the coming week, including this Friday's scheduled football game at Wilcox Academy, Oliver said.

That & the long term damage documented from repeated multiple subconcussive blows to the head are part of the reasons I dont pay much attention anymore as my son wont be playing so its not part of our sports world.

[alias_rice]

Thankfully no one ever gets hurt skiing.

[XXX-er]

isnt American foot ball every day of the week ?

[dan_pdx]

Thankfully no one ever gets hurt skiing.

When you get hurt skiing, it's a bug, when you get hurt playing football, it's a feature.

[yeahman]

If you don't like football, I can see why this time of year would bring the suck.

My wife and I love watching football, so we don't have that problem. And we had two girls so we didn't have to worry about our kids playing.

Football + elk hunting makes fall the next best season after winter.

[seano732]

Well at least he met Jesus face to face

[irul&ublo]

When you get hurt skiing, it's a bug, when you get hurt playing football, it's a feature.

Pretty much a feature for World Cup level.


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[Woodsy]

Thankfully no one ever gets hurt skiing.

I have 2 TBIs from skiing, including one that left me with plates in my head pre helmet, but skiing is not fetishized in this country like football. It isnt assumed for all boys growing up and on TV ALL the time all year and especially in fall and winter, to the determent of other sports

[Woodsy]

If you don't like football, I can see why this time of year would bring the suck.

My wife and I love watching football, so we don't have that problem. And we had two girls so we didn't have to worry about our kids playing.

Football + elk hunting makes fall the next best season after winter.

SOme context here on my annoyance./ disinterest in CFB/NFL

I grew up watching NFL & NCAA Football in the70s & 80s.Steelers v. Cowboys in the SUper Bowl. Earl Campbell and Whitehsoes Johnson playing for bum Phillips on the Oilers. Raiders with Jake the Snake

Being from LA and moving all over he country, I didnt have a team like many of yuou since my youth, Rams til lAnnaheim and then LA Raiders in the mid/late 80s as my uncle had season tix and sent me all the gear.

Parents both graduated from Iowa so Hawkeye football and go big ten since I was old enough to remember. We watched football every Saturday an bowl games all day on Jan 1 as a rule.
I played from 10-18. Wasnt really an option at my size living in TN and then UT, 4 years starting both ways in High School. Had some interest for playing in College but none that was worth pursuing.
Still in college we watched most weekends, D3 school, so not big time, and Monday night football was always free food and drink specials somewhere. Same in Ski towns.


A few things that turned me off football Around the turn of the century.
1) the fucked up NCAA " championship" they couldnt get it right SEC always got benefit of the doubt, living in Utah, watching Utes kill it with out a chance to go anywhere. Shafted undefeated in 05, then in 08 they were the best team in the country. FL beat Alabama in the SEC title game in what all the press and everyone else said was the " real national championship..."

Well FL beat a meh OK team to win it all but Utah got shafted again, and then proceeded to take Alabama to the fkn woodshed to show they were the best team in the FKN country, but nothing to show for it. College football is a joke. Still. But heay lets let these kids wreck their lives & future health for degree, if they can finish. WHILE THE COACHES MAKE MILLIONS...

2) NFL, well the tuck rule was some bullshit and fuck the Pats.

And it has just become so dominant in media the last 10+ years, 24-7 365 on ESPN ( which I avoid for that reason) and just everywhere in general. Playoff baseball continually ignored for mid season games. Plus games are 4+ hours long, who has the time to watch 1 let alone 3 or four some Sundays. Plus the Thursday and Sat now...

One thing I and the wif love about soccer is unless its a cup match, its 2 hours, period. plus hey, drinking in the morning

Poor Gladiators fighting and dying have always entertained the public since the Roman Empire & before, same as it ever was. Curious when the fodder runs out...

[byates1]

Sweet blog

https://youtu.be/kq1UqWy1HCQ?si=Bu6-vtVP7Bb7ufl9

[Cisco Kid]

If you don't like football, I can see why this time of year would bring the suck.

My wife and I love watching football, so we don't have that problem. And we had two girls so we didn't have to worry about our kids playing.

Football + elk hunting makes fall the next best season after winter.

and the times they are a changing. Gonna play TE again. This year on both sides of the ball.

[el hefe]

^^^^ thats awesome. One of my daughters is hyper athletic. Trying to get her to play flag. She is faster then all of the boys.

[irul&ublo]

I have 2 TBIs from skiing, including one that left me with plates in my head pre helmet, but skiing is not fetishized in this country like football. It isnt assumed for all boys growing up and on TV ALL the time all year and especially in fall and winter, to the determent of other sports

Two TBIs? That explains why you’re a Dodger fan.


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[AdironRider]

SOme context here on my annoyance./ disinterest in CFB/NFL

I grew up watching NFL & NCAA Football in the70s & 80s.Steelers v. Cowboys in the SUper Bowl. Earl Campbell and Whitehsoes Johnson playing for bum Phillips on the Oilers. Raiders with Jake the Snake

Being from LA and moving all over he country, I didnt have a team like many of yuou since my youth, Rams til lAnnaheim and then LA Raiders in the mid/late 80s as my uncle had season tix and sent me all the gear.

Parents both graduated from Iowa so Hawkeye football and go big ten since I was old enough to remember. We watched football every Saturday an bowl games all day on Jan 1 as a rule.
I played from 10-18. Wasnt really an option at my size living in TN and then UT, 4 years starting both ways in High School. Had some interest for playing in College but none that was worth pursuing.
Still in college we watched most weekends, D3 school, so not big time, and Monday night football was always free food and drink specials somewhere. Same in Ski towns.


A few things that turned me off football Around the turn of the century.
1) the fucked up NCAA " championship" they couldnt get it right SEC always got benefit of the doubt, living in Utah, watching Utes kill it with out a chance to go anywhere. Shafted undefeated in 05, then in 08 they were the best team in the country. FL beat Alabama in the SEC title game in what all the press and everyone else said was the " real national championship..."

Well FL beat a meh OK team to win it all but Utah got shafted again, and then proceeded to take Alabama to the fkn woodshed to show they were the best team in the FKN country, but nothing to show for it. College football is a joke. Still. But heay lets let these kids wreck their lives & future health for degree, if they can finish. WHILE THE COACHES MAKE MILLIONS...

2) NFL, well the tuck rule was some bullshit and fuck the Pats.

And it has just become so dominant in media the last 10+ years, 24-7 365 on ESPN ( which I avoid for that reason) and just everywhere in general. Playoff baseball continually ignored for mid season games. Plus games are 4+ hours long, who has the time to watch 1 let alone 3 or four some Sundays. Plus the Thursday and Sat now...

One thing I and the wif love about soccer is unless its a cup match, its 2 hours, period. plus hey, drinking in the morning

Poor Gladiators fighting and dying have always entertained the public since the Roman Empire & before, same as it ever was. Curious when the fodder runs out...

Boise State caught a team sleeping every once and while also but they aren't going to be national champs.

[californiagrown]

I love football. I think its a great sport to watch and play. Over the last decade or so the emphasis on head injuries has led to a much safer game both short and long term- a much greater emphasis on safer tackling form and penalizing/discouraging injurious methods of contact, along with sitting players who get their bell rung and making it culturally OK for a player to sit out if they do get a mild head injury. Accidents happen, ive been on the field more than a few time for a stretcher during my 10 years of youth football... but ive also seen stretchers brought onto the field during my baseball games and during wrestling meets. Certainly seen a few toboggins being pulled by patrollers, and my home mountain has a shockingly high fatality rate for only 400 acres of inbounds area.


I hope my kid wants to play football. I hope he wants to wrestly, and i hope he wants to play baseball. They all have their risks (my upper lip is fucked up from a baseball accident when i was 9).


As a spectator i loved college football, but it is losing some of its magic with the unlimited transfer portal. I loved seeing teams and player develop over a couple years, and the rise and fall of cinderellas and dynastys. Paying kids is great, but i think the unlimited transfer portal sucks.

[riser4]

I fucking hate football.

[waxman]

I fucking hate football.

Hate's a strong word but I don't get the fascination with most "pro" sports and how people live vicariously through them. Adults bawling their eyes out because "their" team lost? Come on. #dosportsdontwatchsports

[XXX-er]

the guy I worked with who had a grey cup ring told me about how you could watch football every day and he went thru what type of game on what day be it pro/ High school/ college but nobody really gives a fuck about football up here instead its the Hockey

[mcski]

Hate's a strong word but I don't get the fascination with most "pro" sports and how people live vicariously through them. Adults bawling their eyes out because "their" team lost? Come on. #dosportsdontwatchsports

Cheering for laundry

[californiagrown]

Hate's a strong word but I don't get the fascination with most "pro" sports and how people live vicariously through them. Adults bawling their eyes out because "their" team lost? Come on. #dosportsdontwatchsports

Yeah, im a huge college football fan, but i never really understood the superfandom tied to a particular team. Personally, im there to see the players and teams that interest me, and to see greatness happen. Thats the cool part. College football in particular is so exciting because of the unpredictability, and the lack of parity which ends up showcasing just how freakishly good individual players are and makes upsets so cool to watch. i also think that exciting college games visually showcase the freak athleticism better than any other televised sport.

[yeahman]

Hate's a strong word but I don't get the fascination with most "pro" sports and how people live vicariously through them. Adults bawling their eyes out because "their" team lost? Come on. #dosportsdontwatchsports

Believe it or not some of us can be active people and sports fans at the same time. And still not care enough to "bawl" when our team loses. Maybe you take things too seriously, so watching sports in not healthy for you.

[TBS]

I fucking hate football.

C’mon it’s a great sport.

Where else can overnight men with no aerobic conditioning or hand-eye coordination be successful in an outdoor team sport?

Todd Snider on his football career

[stealurface831]

C’mon it’s a great sport.

Where else can overnight men with no aerobic conditioning or hand-eye coordination be successful in an outdoor team sport?

Todd Snider on his football career

I like Todd’s music but he talks like Mitch Hedberg and that is a nonstarter for me.


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[alias_rice]

Believe it or not some of us can be active people and sports fans at the same time. And still not care enough to "bawl" when our team loses. Maybe you take things too seriously, so watching sports in not healthy for you.

The amount of sports fans that “bawl” over a game is minuscule. There’s definitely people out there that have an unhealthy relationship with their sports teams, but you could say the same about anything just about.

[Diamond Joe]

TL/DR: Raiders fan still butthurt over "Tuck Rule" two decades ago