American Football, Concussions, and The End of A Sport

[JAG]

Start playing real football instead, you heathens.

Oh, and scrap the idiotic college system. I thought you people were supposed to be against unnecessary layers of bureaucracy....

Gah, you are so wrong. It is the rest of the world - especially us over here in Europe - who need to adopt the college and draft system which works so well in the States.

SFTS - I understand everything you say, the emotion, the hurt - the everything. But I have never played American football, I played rugby. People really need to stop the debate about football and rugby, they are both similar sports, lets not resort to bashing either one. I broke my pelvis playing rugby when I was 16 and believe it or not carried on playing for a few minutes before I collapsed and had to get carried off by my coach and a team mate. The comradery and the team spirit is exactly the same in rugby as it is over there for football.

Fortunately rugby is growing over here at the moment and even though some people are trying to tamper with the rules to make it half the game it is now, they won't win and I doubt they will over there with football either. These things have a tendency to get overblown by a few people in the media and a couple of people with 'authority' within the game but then get roundly rejected - eventually - by the people who really love the sport. Basically, don't fret, it will be alright and hell, if they ever stop playing it over there come and play it over here. It is one of the biggest growing sports in the UK at the moment and the only way is up.

Oh and don't have a go at our football either, brilliant game if you ever give it a chance. Beautiful and elegant, yet brutal in its own way - there is a reason it is the worlds biggest sport.