Not even a question. Having a harder and harder time tuning in.

It doesn't so much matter if people are willing to play, there will always be enough of those. The problem comes if people consider it too barbaric to watch.

Not the point of your comment, but college football is first tier for plenty of people - I'd bet even more people than the NFL.

There's barely a cloud in the sky over the contiguous 48 states right now. Get off the couch and go breathe some fresh air, you lardballs.

[continues to surf Internet]

Oh I'm with you. Young men do young men things. Lorde knows most of us took unreasonable risks when we were young, and there's nothing surprising about big strong young people with tons of money feeling untouchable.

What's scary as shit about this is the probability that the player's stated belief that he didn't suffer a concussion is based upon his passing through the sideline concussion protocol, but no one can possibly claim that the sideline concussion protocol catches all concussions. I think the players believe if they just…

I trust players' opinions on whether they are concussed about as much as I trust a guy pulled over under suspicion of DUI about whether he's drunk.

I may actually leave the house and not watch TV. I haven't decided, yet, it's not the kind of decision you make lightly.

I would abstain from watching football but what about all the funny or incredible stuff that might happen during the course of all the games? The occasional backflip or midair helmet to helmet to unconscious hit! If only there was a website that would put together gifs and screencaps of those moments so I could absorb…

Ok, I am finally on board with the Cardinals Hate Train. To hell with these guys, I could tolerate their sanctimonious preachy "we do baseball the white err, right way" attitude as long as they behaved themselves, but this? Get fucked, St. Louis.

Not just Thursday nights.

I don't think that it's an excuse. it is football's fault that children are being taught starting from age 6 and 7 to run headlong into one another, colliding brains hundreds of thousands of times over a lifetime. it's then society's fault that people eat this shit up and ask for seconds. slaves vs. lions, really.

"crazy" would, if given a bit more legal backing, translate to "insanity defense" which means that he would not be found liable. therefore the blame would not be pinned on the person that actually did the crime.

Best play is to be an adult and not wear Football Jersey in public. Not a very functional clothing item as it is designed to be worn with pads by a roided up freak of nature. Maybe check out an nice fitting team polo or something.

also, stream any of today's MLB games at http://mlb.mlb.com/mediacenter/

Try this one on for size.

Its also literally a beautiful day out there.

And people think that Roethlisberger and Sharper and all the others are just outliers, aberrations. This is the culture we have created for these monsters.

Ashley, if you read this: Thank you so much for sharing your story with the world. I'm glad you're still with us today.