ukpat37
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Post by ukpat37 on Jan 26, 2016 11:04:13 GMT -6
Very true...it is easy for me to say! Alright, sometimes I have memory loss. I don't blame football. I blame getting old. At 25 I have absolutely no hope then :/ haha!
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coachnewman
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On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job." -Lou Holtz
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Post by coachnewman on Jan 26, 2016 11:16:30 GMT -6
It is Risk/Reward, we face that EVERYDAY.
I wish whoever wrote this story would have asked the million Dollar question, "so you would be willing to have given up all that money from football too with this 'new' baseball decision?"
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Post by coachd5085 on Jan 26, 2016 19:11:58 GMT -6
It is Risk/Reward, we face that EVERYDAY. I wish whoever wrote this story would have asked the million Dollar question, "so you would be willing to have given up all that money from football too with this 'new' baseball decision?" I am pretty sure that is exactly what Randle El is saying. The problem is it is pretty much a useless statement, as he already HAS made all that money
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coachnewman
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On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job." -Lou Holtz
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Post by coachnewman on Jan 27, 2016 6:36:59 GMT -6
but this useless statement for the people who read the article, as most do not dig in to it, just take it for what the title says and run with it to mean baseball over football, may need to see it. IMO
but having it would not gather the headlines, so I guess that is why it is not in there.
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Post by coachklee on Jan 28, 2016 8:57:07 GMT -6
My brother had to quit playing football 4 games into his junior year of high school due to concussion issues. He was a state championship QB and all state player as a sophomore. Was leading the state in rushing yards and TD's for the first 3 games his junior year but got his 4th concussion in less than 2 years and he and my parents made the decision to end the football carer. We knew the risks, were willing to accept them to a point, and got out once the risks were too great... Both of us now coach high school football and when we talk about playing and the risks of football, etc... all my brother ever says is that he wishes he could go back and play again, but knows that it was the best choice to stop playing. He only regrets that he got the concussions in the first place and considers himself unlucky to have received his concussions when so many other people can play the game and take more hits than he and not get the major concussions that he had. I teach chemistry and physics and I have no sympathy for anyone who played football in the post WW2 era when 90% of the population of our students in high school have to take some sort of physics-related class where they would learn about force, mass, acceleration, and the amounts of energy those things place on objects. If you wake up the day after a football game and you are sore from the neck-down, your head feels the same way, but you don't have the ability to feel that soreness in your head like you do the rest of your body. Doesn't take a genius to figure out that the sport has risks. Too many of these players look the other way to collect a paycheck and take the fame that comes with it, then want to plead ignorance... they CHOSE to be ignorant to it because the money/fame was more important to them short-term. Hell, I have lots of things I could have done differently in my life... the girl at school that I didn't talk to at that party, only to find out she was willing to sleep with ANYONE, not choosing to walk-on at a bigger school as a 6'1" 185 lb QB from high school and redshirting rather than going to an NAIA school because in less than 3 months I was 6'3" 240, and a million other things. Do I blame anyone else for those decisions... NO. Do I regret any of those decisions... NO. You make the decisions you make based on the information you have available (and info on how dangerous football could be has been around since they were forced to invent the forward pass because of people DYING in the early days) and have to live with the consequences. Some people are willing to risk dying early and of some really bad cancers by smoking/chewing, I am not. But I also hate all the advertisements and other media and people who badger the people who do. It is their decision and must live with the consequences. $h!t... I would have gone into the military with my 99th percentile score on the ASVAB, but the whole, "I could get my #ss shot off" possibility kept me clear of making that decision. I'm too much of a pu$$y to get shot at. GREAT POST!!!
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Post by td4tc on Jan 28, 2016 9:07:35 GMT -6
he's entitled to his opinion. Like my dad used to tell me, "I've been young, but you've never been old". There isn't any way to really understand what the experience of age brings when you're growing up. Broph, where do you come up with these great quotes? So true. The game continues to give back to me after all these years. My football friends are as loyal as my dogs. And with my touch of Alzheimers from repeated concussions I wake up with a new set of friends every day.
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Post by centersnap on Jan 31, 2016 20:01:23 GMT -6
Randle el took exception to article on him not what he meant. Modern journalism at work.
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