The game is played between neighborhoods, so the main goal is to settle local scores. I’ve been told one gets to pick a guy from the opposing team and then eyeball him for the entire year - having a pre-existing grudge is a bonus.
You get to punch/kick standing up, no strikes after takedowns. You open plays by incapacitating opposing defense players, either by striking or takedowns. Winning is great, but like I said, the main purpose is to beat the shit of your opponents.
It’s a relic of medieval times, where games of “football” were basically legal brawls involving thousands of “players” and where the ball and scoring were an afterthought. Shrovetide football is another medieval relic, but with toned down violence.
While I like the idea of allowing more fighting in sports and having regional grudge matches, I think making wrestling a mandatory PE class for all boys would help a lot more in the USA.
My son has his first football game on the highschool freshman team tonight. He’s never played before and is starting at defensive tackle. He wanted to play tight end, but having never played before he was at a disadvantage to some of the players with a lot more experience catching and running routes. But he tells me that after they put on pads and did hitting practice, the line coach convinced him that he was in the wrong position group. I guess he dropped a few of the starting o-linemen on their backsides.
Old age and treachery overcomes youthful exuberance every day.
I won’t challenge you with respect to whether or not your kid could kick my ass - kind of a ridiculous construct considering I am sixty one.
Would that make you proud if your fifteen year old kicked the shit out of a sixty one year old?
I just wonder about your intelligence -no trolling intended. If he is so smart, why would you let him play? Seriously, that’s your kid. You’re going to let him smash into other people that want to concuss him?
I think you missed the part where I said he would know you aren’t worth it. That’s why I’m proud of him.
The paradox of sports is that anyone who takes them seriously is a fool and anyone who doesn’t lacks an appreciation of human striving. Make what you will of where that puts my intelligence. I am unqualified to assess it.
Not a great look to talk negatively about another’s child. Seriously.
And football is a tough one. Is it more dangerous than a kid growing up skiing, or MTBing? I don’t want to bubblewrap my kid, but I also don’t want them to needlessly hurt their brain and body. I never played line, but did play 10 years of football and had a few diagnosed concussions with many more undiagnosed. But I’m in way better shape than colleagues who ski raced for example. Just had a young client die in a car crash over the weekend… Don’t want to live life too safely.
I think new emphasis on safe tackling form, better helmets, and making it OK to sit out if you get your bell ring are huge steps forward in safety.
Clearly your concussions have affected your cognitive ability - or what you had. I was not talking negatively about his child. I was talking negatively about him, a grown ass man.
Your inability to discern that is “not a great look” for you.
Try to be less vague with a topic sentence - or is that a cognitive challenge for you, having been concussed multiple times?
Is this the future you want for your kid?
That explains your inability to construct a topic sentence.
If your response to someone saying that their kid is starting a new sport is, “Guess you doubt his intellectual ability if you let him play,” you are either a major asshole or mentally retarded. I’m betting on both.
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