How Damaged Are NFL Players' Brains?

Post by cpursley » Wed, Apr 17, 2013, 12:05 PM UTC

tomflack wrote: post #30

colemorrison wrote: post #29

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yes, yes, yes! How odd that such a huge portion of the US worships a ton of bulked up dudes tossing a brown ball back and forth. My favorite oddities: 1. One that smacked me in the face from Paul Graham's essay was that when a CEO makes 100x the normal pay...it is an outrage. But those same people complaining are okay with all of these athletes making 128x pay. 2. They're just throwing a ball back and forth. "Oh but…

We get it, you don't like sports. As a geek who grew up playing the occasional sport but not really enjoying it, finding a sport I truly enjoy at the age of 26 (baseball, not so popular in my country) and following a team has been eye-opening. Sports fans have welcomed me, and been very accommodating explaining parts of the game I don't understand. And then there are other geeks like you - that have an almost viscera…

Post by tomflack » Wed, Apr 17, 2013, 11:38 PM UTC

cpursley wrote: post #31

tomflack wrote: post #30

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We get it, you don't like sports. As a geek who grew up playing the occasional sport but not really enjoying it, finding a sport I truly enjoy at the age of 26 (baseball, not so popular in my country) and following a team has been eye-opening. Sports fans have welcomed me, and been very accommodating explaining parts of the game I don't understand. And then there are other geeks like you - that have an almost viscera…

There's a HUGE difference in enjoying/playing sports compared to vicariously living through professional athletes. Getting together with friends for a pick-up game is not difficult and much more gratifying and you can still drink beer afterwords.