a quick word

[magratheazaphod]

I definitely have better things to be doing right now than this, but...about Gregg Williams and the bounty scandal - I'm confused. Do people really not think this is a systematic thing throughout the entire NFL? I'm not saying that every team has a specific bounty policy, but players are out there trying to hurt each other. At the very least, the

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[vinylchances]

I agree, pretty much. I mean, yeah, it's PR move, but still, it's a PR move that I'd make a million times out of a million.

I also agree about liking basketball more :-)

[crosstables]

A Freakonomics approach might be: if bounties make no difference, then why would a team offer them? Surely they believe that players with right incentives can cause more injuries than would otherwise occur, no? If so: are they right? I imagine that they are. Reckless abandon is fine, but players can choose to--or not to--aim at knees instead of thighs when they have that choice.

[dugy1001]

I agree with this whole post. I love watching football, but I think it will soon go the way of boxing. I recently predicted to a friend that the Ivy League will eliminate football within the next twenty years, not that it'll please alumni or anything. The sport is just too dangerous, especially given all the recent research into brain injuries that linemen and other players get.

[spherulitic]

Sadly, this. The way the game messes people up, it's really hard to see it continuing indefinitely.

OTOH maybe it would open a space for fandom of that other football. Sport will continue.