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Bob Costas on the future of football: 'This game destroys people's brains'
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sport...ins/842904001/
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so long as it's a Bronco or maybe Xfactor, should he somehow find himself in the middle of a ball game |
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oh I wouldn't work in a coal mine DanT
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yep, just like the NFL players.
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I've also coauthored a few studies in occupational health, a lot of it with farm workers, but not all of it. One of them concerned older workers and the association of arthritis-related disability with broad occupational class. My dad was blue-collar (an autoworker, he retired from GMAD Leeds after 30 years and passed away in his early 70s) and my mom was pink-collar. Thanks to their hard work, I was able to make it to a white collar job. Here's the abstract from the arthritis paper, along with a link for anyone interested in reading more. The upshot is that arthritis is quite a bit more brutal for a blue collar worker than for a white collar worker. That may be obvious, but we were able to quantify the differences.
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I worked on the oil rigs in the gulf in the late 70's. Until the rig blew out across from us and 4 people died. Figured I couldn't spend this great money if I was dead.
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That's a tough job, that's for sure. In some countries, the fatality rates for that job are absolutely atrocious. In China, for example, the fatality rates were more than 25 times as high as in the US at the beginning of this century.
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The difference between all these other jobs and the NFL is guys who work on oil rigs and in coal mines are usually doing some kind of work that provides some kind of service to people that need it. The NFL is entertainment. It is a bit different.
I've seen more than one article recently about how participation in youth football is down in various areas. I don't think the NFL is going to be dead anytime soon, but I could definitely see them making changes to the game, and you wonder how the quality of the game will be affected. We are already right now at the point where the quality of the game has declined from 20 years ago, really even 10 years ago, because they've restricted how much guys can practice. The days of a coach like Vermeil or Marty grinding a team down through long grueling practices are long dead. |
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I don't care as much about players who assume the risk but do it anyway. This game is on the decline because injuries occur at such an alarming rate. I don't want to watch backups. I don't want super bowls to be based on what team was lucky enough to make it through with the least number of stars injured.
Football is at its best with the best players on the field. That's not happening right now. And the product is suffered dramatically. |
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Too many teams,games, and rule changes.
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I was washing dishes at first making what is now, $3500 a week. Go out there for 4 weeks. Single, 18 years old, high school drop out from Missouri and I've got $14K in my bank account in a month? I can see why people accepted the risk to their lives. Its a lot safer now, they know how to keep the sharks away from the rigs etc. pay is not as good but at least your chance of dying is way down from what it was in 1979.
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I wish Bob Costas worked in a coal mine.
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