Mark My Words (Prediction Thread)

Kubla Kahn · Sep 12, 2024 at 7:07 PM

Zach said: ↑

I think you missed the whole context of her post. The focus was on the"competitive" leagues. She said her kids play rec league. ie not ultra competitive sports where the kids have overbearing parents trying to live out their dreams through their kids.
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Ow the overbearing sports parents definitely fuck up their kids.

Revengeofthenerds · Sep 15, 2024 at 8:21 AM

downndirty said: ↑

I saw this on Reddit and figured the TIB take would be more fun.

MMW: the NFL will have a player die on the field, and it will never be the same again.

I was talking to gf about NFL starting back up, and she commented on the proliferation of games. She wondered when it would stop, and we talked about some of the injury concerns that made kids less likely to play. Then I recalled the Bills player who got hit in the chest and IIRC his heart stopped. He damned near died on the field.

I think about the combine stats, and how these guys would have been Olympic record setters in the 1970's, but weighing 135 pounds. The idea that most of these guys are closer to 300 lbs than 200, and run with that kind of speed, reminds me that playing an NFL game for some positions is the equivalent force of a fucking car crash. Eventually, a 270 lb person running 22 miles an hour with a helmet directly to the chest will cause the same trauma that stops someone's heart, and they just won't get there in time. Fuck, Stallone got hospitalized because he got punched in the chest so hard filming a Rocky movie.

When that happens, the massive industry that the NFL has become takes a huge hit. Now that some of that is financed through VC capital, that hit will snowball. Also, the reverberations down to college, high school and younger players will make it a LOT harder to recruit. I don't think it will shut down, but it will not be the juggernaut it is now.
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Tua out here about to make that prediction come true. Damn you called it man.

GcDiaz · Sep 18, 2024 at 4:38 AM

wexton said: ↑

Soccer is fairly cheap. Just need a set of cleats.
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That's how other countries do it, in this country we require equipment, fees, travel, all kinds of shit to make it prohibitive.

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