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In reply to the discussion: BOYCOTT SUPERBOWL [View all]angrychair
(8,678 posts)I don't give two shits about American football. My point was that there are more important things to focus our time, energy and money on than this nonsense. My main hang-ups are two-fold: to deny trump another venue to vent his hatred and the NFL's denial and now foot dragging related to concussion injuries from tackle football and the very real harm it does to young minds and NFL players alike.
I played American football for a season in high school. The difference given that one sport over others and over academics is stunning.
In Allen, TX they built a $60 million high school football stadium. There wasn't a better use of $60 million dollars in that school district? No one thought of astronomy? Physics? Robotics? Engineering?
Futures are built on strong minds, not bashing in heads out on a field.
It's everything that is is wrong with America boiled down to a single sport: glorify combat and aggression and ridicule intelligence and scientific discovery.