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Obama: Change Coming to NFL to Reduce 'Violence'
President Barack Obama said if he had a son, he would have to think before he let him play football and suggested he--along with other football fans--watches football against his conscience.
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BigD4UT said...
Obama says those of us who love the sport are going to have to wrestle with the fact that it will probably change to try to reduce some of the violence and that may make it a little bit less exciting, but those of us who are fans won't have to examine our consciences quite as much.
Our conscience? I watch football with a clear conscience as I think most of us do. If you have to examine your conscience because of the violence in football, I can only imagine what the violent culture in your hometown of Chicago that led to 513 murders last year is doing to your conscience.
Mr President, no one wants to see players get hurt and that's why the NFL and NCAA have already put new rules in place that have reduced the violence. Many fans already think the game is being sissified by some of the new rules. Am I wrong in thinking football fans, parents, coaches and players would prefer to see improvements to the equipment in order to make the game safer rather than see you, league offices or competition committees create more rules that change the game we love?
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btown1110 said...
I don't agree with WB a whole lot, but he's dead on.
These kids who we recruit, and especially the ones who make it to the League, know what they are doing. While they may not realize the long lasting effects of a concussion, at the end of the day, they put themselves out there and know that it could all end with one hit. But they still play and most play with a great passion and reckless abandon.
The President should work on decreasing the deficit and balancing the budget, not on making football "safer."
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FF: Sticking with the culture of violence, but on a much less dramatic scale: I'm wondering if you, as a fan, take less pleasure in watching football, knowing the impact that the game takes on its players.
[BO]: I'm a big football fan, but I have to tell you if I had a son, I'd have to think long and hard before I let him play football. And I think that those of us who love the sport are going to have to wrestle with the fact that it will probably change gradually to try to reduce some of the violence. In some cases, that may make it a little bit less exciting, but it will be a whole lot better for the players, and those of us who are fans maybe won't have to examine our consciences quite as much.
I tend to be more worried about college players than NFL players in the sense that the NFL players have a union, they're grown men, they can make some of these decisions on their own, and most of them are well-compensated for the violence they do to their bodies. You read some of these stories about college players who undergo some of these same problems with concussions and so forth and then have nothing to fall back on. That's something that I'd like to see the NCAA think about.
This post was edited by bierce on 1/27/2013 at 7:30 PM
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bierce said...
Look above for the question and full answer he gave. The interview is found here.
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/112190/obama-interview-2013-sit-down-president#
He was asked a question in an interview, and he answered it. He said nothing that could be reasonably construed to imply he was interested in using his office to force a change or campaign for a change. He merely referred to the likelihood of gradual change (which we have been seeing for the last several years) and referred to the governing bodies as being the ones needing to look into the situation.
That hardly seems the sort of statement to make one say that he is paying too much attention to matters that are outside of the scope of his duties.
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bierce said...
Look above for the question and full answer he gave. The interview is found here.
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/112190/obama-interview-2013-sit-down-president#
He was asked a question in an interview, and he answered it. He said nothing that could be reasonably construed to imply he was interested in using his office to force a change or campaign for a change. He merely referred to the likelihood of gradual change (which we have been seeing for the last several years) and referred to the governing bodies as being the ones needing to look into the situation.
That hardly seems the sort of statement to make one say that he is paying too much attention to matters that are outside of the scope of his duties.
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Obama: Change coming to reduce violence in football