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11. Interesting question; I have one for football fans

Reply to Clash City Rocker (Original post)

Fri Feb 10, 2023, 12:32 PM

Feb 2023

How can you watch and support a sport in which young men are grinding up their brains for your entertainment? Does it bother you to watch your heroes of yesterday live out their lives in terrible, crippling pain, often dying 10 or 20 years before their time?

After 50 years as a fan, I couldn't go on after that study came out on the post-mortem examination of former players' brains that showed all but one of them showed signs of CTE. I got thinking about players like Lyle Alzado, Jim Otto, and Darryl Stingley. I just couldn't do it anymore.

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Question for DU KC Chiefs fans [View all] Clash City Rocker Feb 2023 OP

Chiefs Tomahawk Chant radalpha Feb 2023 #1

They routinely say they don't feel honored by it, so maybe it should change. WhiskeyGrinder Feb 2023 #2

Who is "they"? DURHAM D Feb 2023 #4

Oh, people have been protesting the use of Native imagery and mascots in sports and the wider WhiskeyGrinder Feb 2023 #6

Not a Chiefs fan, but the team are not the one's doing the chant Hugh_Lebowski Feb 2023 #3

The team has "outlawed" racist/stereotype clothing and the chant. Can they do more? Yes hlthe2b Feb 2023 #5

I am 3/8ths native american lapfog_1 Feb 2023 #9

I have always hated MuseRider Feb 2023 #7

News for ya' GusBob Feb 2023 #8

Good on you. I have had some past work via IHS and N. Americans in the Southwest too. hlthe2b Feb 2023 #10

yes GusBob Feb 2023 #12

Interesting question; I have one for football fans gratuitous Feb 2023 #11

I hate the team for that very reason. That chant is racist as hell. Solomon Feb 2023 #13