cuchulain25
Cuchulain25
cuchulain25

“from the depths of Hell!!!”

I really enjoyed the first episode. BUT, I have questions:

I, too, was a lukewarm HRC supporter, but I campaigned “for” her quite a bit because of the existential threat I believed Trump to be. So FML, and the lives of all the rest of America.

Any school that hires Briles now is just flat out admitting that its football program has nothing to do with the its academic mission and that it values football income far more than the personal safety of its actual students.

I have struggled with rationalizing Trump’s appeal to his supporters since the election. I do not want to accept the facile analysis that all his supporters were either racist/misogynistic/anti-Semitic idiots or rapacious nihilists looking to grab as much of the pie as they can right now. But for fuck’s sake. You read

The best part of these things is watching Kenny Smith. Its like watching a mom at the playground watch her kids bickering, not wanting to get all dirty separating them too early, but knowing the tipping point is coming where one of them ends up with a bloody nose and the other one is crying.

You are trying to hard to make this ok. This is one of those things you just walk away from, keep your thoughts to yourself, and maintain your public dignity.

I think American football is a dying sport, with or without geniuses. The simple truth is you can’t make it safer. I’m guessing liability concerns are going to eliminate tackle football from public high schools in the next 15 years. Its already the single biggest line item on any high school athletic department’s

Its not the size of the audience market that should be a concern, its the size of the talent pool. There are not a sufficient number of high-quality American soccer players to fill the current league; expanding the available slots is only going to dilute the thin talent even more.