Wow Chris Borland retires

[In58men]

@chris_buckle: Breaking from @OTLonESPN: 49ers LB Chris Borland retiring b/c of concerns about long-term effects of head trauma: http://t.co/fUnFQYUZN5

[eDave]

Originally Posted by Pablo

Q?

Chess.

[Mr. Inmem]

Originally Posted by Marcellus

I swear half the posters in this thread have had 30 concussions.

You can't even have resonable conversation about anything on CP anymore without full idiocy breaking out.

Stop quoting the ****ing story.

They're ****ing immature. It was actually a good story too, but it's all ****ed up now.

[KCUnited]

Chris Borland is a good old fashioned jackass

[eDave]

Originally Posted by Mr. Shhhh

They're ****ing immature. It was actually a good story too, but it's all ****ed up now.

Shoulda rolled that shit up boo.

[Mr. Inmem]

Originally Posted by eDave

Shoulda rolled that shit up boo.

Thought maybe this fan base was mature enough to handle it. Guess not. Bunch of kids around here.

[eDave]

Originally Posted by Mr. Shhhh

Thought maybe this fan base was mature enough to handle it. Guess not. Bunch of kids around here.

It's an old gag. Now you know!

[srvy]

Originally Posted by ThaVirus

We need more research on CTE.

You'd have to imagine the bulk of it would come from your time spent in the NFL, if you're able to make it that far. How dangerous is peewee football to your long term health? High school football? College football?

No we don't. More study into finding a screening process to filter out these pussies before they even get started into peewee football. No one held a gun to his head and made him play tackle football.

[Mr. Inmem]

Originally Posted by eDave

It's an old gag. Now you know!

I can see if it was a poop thread, there's a time to be a jackass and a time to be mature. Every thread gets ****ed up because of gags and immaturity.

[RealSNR]

Originally Posted by Mr. Shhhh

They're ****ing immature. It was actually a good story too, but it's all ****ed up now.

No it ****ing wasn't.

It was a bunch of bullshit. "Chris Borland walks into an airport in Europe! He likes to travel! Isn't that nice! He's wearing a wool cardigan and a bunch of shit! He's reading Kafka! Kafka! Can you believe it? That's soooo ****ing Kafkaesque!"

The dude who wrote that doesn't have a grasp for telling a story because he's trying to hit the reader over the head with unnecessary details that he believes presents a perfect character sketch of the subject. All they do is ****ing piss the reader off and waste their time. It's horrible journalism.

That asshole obviously wants to write for Rolling Stone's dipshit readers who think those details of a news story matter one ****ing bit because they've shoved so many Starbucks drinks up their asses.

I'm glad I ****ed up your shitty story. I'd do it again in a ****ing second.

[RealSNR]

Originally Posted by Mr. Shhhh

Thought maybe this fan base was mature enough to handle it. Guess not. Bunch of kids around here.

I, for one, had a great time making fun of you and your shitty story. Thanks for posting! I was entertained.

[Mr. Inmem]

Originally Posted by RealSNR

I, for one, had a great time making fun of you and your shitty story. Thanks for posting! I was entertained.

Right on, bitch boy.

[RealSNR]

Tell me how this advances the story, Mr. Shit.

ON JULY 30, as the 49ers prepared to open training camp, Borland touched down in Cork, Ireland. He was planning to spend six weeks in Europe. He carried with him one pair of black pants (which he was wearing), six shirts, six pairs of underwear and socks, stuffed into a black backpack with his iPod (nano), laptop, journal and a Kindle, on which he was reading The Metamorphosis, the Franz Kafka novella.

Borland walked to a nearby Travelodge, pausing to take a picture of a life-size statue of Christy Ring, a local hurling legend. There will be no statues built for Borland, of course, and that seems fine with him. Informed that the Travelodge was booked, he decided to walk five miles into Cork, which is not unlike landing at LaGuardia Airport and deciding to walk into Manhattan.

Nights in Cork are brisk. Borland, who had no jacket or sweater, cloaked himself in a beige British Airways blanket he had taken off the plane. He spent the entire night walking the charming Irish city, listening to Van Morrison, crossing the River Lee, climbing the hills dotted with row houses bathed in pastels, a sensation he described, euphorically, as "floating."

Borland said it's a coincidence he decided to leave the States at the exact moment our fevered obsession with football begins anew. But you have to wonder. Had Borland stayed in football, he would have been a big part of the 49ers' fall story; you could have written it in your sleep. Now someone else will have to replace Patrick Willis, who retired a week before Borland, and someone will write that story. Borland, meanwhile, was in Europe, alone and anonymous.

Borland paused when he was asked what he wants the rest of his life to be. "That's the hardest question in the world," he said one afternoon while eating lunch in Edinburgh, Scotland. "It's like, 'What's the meaning of life?' I just want to be honest. There's no worldly possessions that really excite me. I don't need prestige. I just want to do something where I can feel confident that I'm making the world a better place."

During the summer, Borland was driving from California to Ohio when he picked up an audiobook of Jimmy Carter's Beyond the White House: Waging Peace, Fighting Disease, Building Hope. The book mentioned Rosalynn's Carter's mental health initiative. Borland was so moved he cold-called the Carter Center in Atlanta and arranged a meeting, which he called "one of the best days of my life." He is cutting short his trip to attend a September symposium there.

It's a shitty article written by a douchetard who thinks he's better than he really is.

You want good sports journalism? Read Ken Babb's Arrowhead Anxiety article. He painted a picture of the situation dispassionately without boring the reader. It was long, but it was MEANT to be necessarily long.

This article is a piece of trash.

[Mr. Inmem]

Of course everything in KC is better. The beer, the BBQ, the writers lol blah blah blah.

The article had some interesting tidbits. I never said it was the best one ever, not sure why you're comparing to the best article you've read. this is far from the best, but still good and informative.

[eDave]

Originally Posted by Marcellus

I swear half the posters in this thread have had 30 concussions.

You can't even have resonable conversation about anything on CP anymore without full idiocy breaking out.

Stop quoting the ****ing story.

[eDave]

Originally Posted by Mr. Shhhh

Of course everything in KC is better. The beer, the BBQ, the writers lol blah blah blah.

The article had some interesting tidbits. I never said it was the best one ever, not sure why you're comparing to the best article you've read. this is far from the best, but still good and informative.

Roll it up. Bold the important parts. SOP.