Yes, he even points at the person who made him laugh.

Lawrence Taylor was a paragon of NFL excellence.

Agree 100%. But the NFL wants these dumpster fire games. This way, next year fans of the Texans will be engaged because they made the playoffs, and fans of the Bills will be engaged because it was a good overall year (not that you guys ever aren’t engaged, but you know what I mean). Plus, the favorites, which…

Actually, I did just realize that I was wrong. But that has nothing to do with your reply.

I agree, but that’s not a good enough reason to not do it. The current system is already splitting into superconferences as it is.

I think she said “Igguary”

I think it’s that there are more overall injuries in football, because of the padding and speed, but the rates are likely close to even.

The NCCA and colleges get away with it because sports programs are considered voluntary participation. There is no legal difference between playing sports or doing any other school program. So they don’t get labor rights.

Sure. So let’s get to sacrificing.

Yeah, I think a better idea is to get a movement started where players hold out or strike the start of next year. It’s unfair to expect two teams having the biggest moment of their lives to carry the weight for the whole movement.

Except they used to look more like that, and nobody even brought up the idea of paying players.

Except they have to exist if football does due to Title IX, so football is going to have to start paying the salaries for women’s lacrosse.

Telling people to come up with a fair compensation plan is Step 1 before you can implement anything. Schools and the NCAA have legal, employment, and competitive issues to consider, so “just do it” is a non-starter. Figuring out how to do it is job one.

Yeah, it seems like something could be done through an internal grant program. But, the vast majority of us (and the media...actually, especially the media since they purposefully ignore complications) don’t really know the legal or financial implications to schools. The sourced article is all over the place and…

Yeah, that’s the part people keep forgetting. You can’t just pay football players. If you do, then you pay all athletes, and it’s unlikely you can do a sliding scale based on revenue. There are over 400,000 division I athletes, so even at a ridiculously low “salary” of 12k a year, it’s almost 5 Billion dollars. There…

Umm...you make it sound like rugby doesn’t have concussion problems of its own (hint: it does. If you don’t believe me, look up the percentage of injuries that are concussion in both sports).

I think she’s wrong too. Just not about the fear thing. We don’t ever hear about how safe we are today, but we’re very safe.

And I’m a GenX’er who was bored by it.

We don’t work more than ever before. We work less than ever before.

It’s not melodramatic. Like a bank, real estate is a business that picks up during everyone else’s lunch breaks.