Liberals, Killing football

AMERICAN FOOTBALL was invented in 1869, as a from of rugby. Princeton and Rutgers played a four to two game, I forget who won, for the championship of New Jersey. Every play from scrimmage was a leather helmet dog pile scrum, and the injuries were rugby style bumps, bruises, chicken scratches, and your occasional chipped tooth and bloody nose. Harmless stuff, by modern standards. Within a few decades things began to get serious. forward passing was legalized. helmets and pads got hard. Football became a collision sport. Considering current circumstances, brain damage, broken bones and such, it might have been best had the game remained a form of rugby, but in America, that simply wasn't good enough, violent enough. There are some today, including coaches, who think it might be a good idea to re-rugify the game even now. Of course, that'll never fly. Not in America. Permanent brain damage is endemic, and has been for a long time. Finally, we are beginning to acknowledge and study it, and it may be that we will take the drastic plunge and begin to do something about it, but don't hold your breath. I'm America, we love our violence. Conservatives in particular are reluctant to affect change, not surprisingly. Political conservatives have the same attitude about head injuries in football that they do about climate change, racism, and other social ills. Let the free market take care of it. Unless they can be persuaded to join the better health in sports crusade, it might not happen. The pattern is clear: first, they deny the problem exists. Then, they obfuscate its causes, and understate it severity. then, when it becomes obvious that there truly is a problem, conservatives, in desperation, blame it on liberals. Liberals, and the mainstream liberal media. Here's how it works from the right wing perspective. A few guys get their bells rung, and don't know what day it is for a day or two. Liberals, who already hate football because its an American mainstay, go ballistic. Ballistic over nothing. Two or three former players commit suicide, and the damned liberal media, stirring up trouble, has the audacity to report on it. When the helicopter soccer moms get wind, all hell breaks loose. Little boys begin behaving like little girls, clinging to mother's skirts. Homosexuality increases. Grandpa, who played at Dartmouth in the late forties, can no longer drool or speak in tongue without drawing a crowd of liberal do goo meddlers. Next thing you know, stadiums are half empty, quarterbacks are wearing pantyhose, and three hundred pound men are spending more time eating quiche and sipping latte in reading rooms than lifting in weight rooms. America is in decline, all because the hysterical left is politically potent but physically and morally weak. Some guy in Gary can't get the big strong good looking ones to even pay attention, and America is never again the same..