Originally Posted by Ultra Peanut (Post 8588416)

Originally Posted by Ultra Peanut (Post 8588425)

What I'm saying is that it's not a ****ing matter of accountability in the first place.

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut (Post 8588412)

Speak o' the devil:

http://a3.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot...05601005_n.jpg

Go **** yourself, Harrison. Better yet, go off yourself.

The players need to be a hell of a lot more cognizant of this stuff among themselves. There hasn't been honor among thieves with a lot of these thugs in a very long time.

Maybe at some point asshole headhunters like Harrison will realize that there are consequences to scrambling someone's !@#$ing brain.

Originally Posted by Donger (Post 8588430)

Sure it is.

Originally Posted by Brock (Post 8588426)

They'll just turn it into the pro bowl. And that'll be the end of it.

Originally Posted by vailpass (Post 8588407)

Yep. And it is sheer lunacy. There is implied consent there that should relieve the NFL of any punitive liability.

Originally Posted by vailpass (Post 8588407)

Yep. And it is sheer lunacy. There is implied consent there that should relieve the NFL of any punitive liability.

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut (Post 8588441)

Put 9 individuals in a room and tell them that a billion-dollar entity run by a bunch of exceptionally rich men has tacitly accepted the deaths of its employees.

Oh sure, there will be defenses made, some of them valid. But if you can ever claim to know what a jury is going to decide, especially in a very emotionally charged issue, you're a far better man than I.

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut (Post 8588336)

The rule changes that emphasize the passing game have also created more problems with head traumas, etc..., IMO.

In the running game you have guys in relatively confined spaces running into each other. You run greater risks for broken limbs and such in the mass of bodies underneath, but the speeds are incredibly slow.

In the short passing game, however, the rules are designed to allow free movement and create speed. These guys are just launching themselves into each other over the middle of the field.

I wonder if we won't start to see rules shaded back towards encouraging the more deliberate, power football that we used to see. I really do think it would help improve the head trauma issues.

Originally Posted by Donger (Post 8588430)

Sure it is.

Originally Posted by vailpass (Post 8588446)

Tell them those employees are multi-millionaires who knew exactly what they were doing when they accepted that money.

Originally Posted by Buck (Post 8588258)

**** this and **** all of you for making jokes.


How funny would it have been to have a pun thread when DT died? It wouldn't have been.

Originally Posted by tooge (Post 8588273)

I'd be hesitant to make fun if the guy died tragically in a fire or car accident or something. But, he offed himself. What a prick. Sorry, but I've just never thought that I should feel sympathy for someone that takes the greatest gift of all and throws it away, ruining it for countless others at the same time.

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut (Post 8588441)

Put 9 individuals in a room and tell them that a billion-dollar entity run by a bunch of exceptionally rich men has tacitly accepted the deaths of its employees.

Oh sure, there will be defenses made, some of them valid. But if you can ever claim to know what a jury is going to decide, especially in a very emotionally charged issue, you're a far better man than I.

Originally Posted by Ultra Peanut (Post 8588448)

me ugg

ugg have rock for bash

ugg want moralize unfortunate events

Originally Posted by Literature (Post 8588444)

How much do you think the average professional football player knows about the consequences of the game? The science of this brain rumbling isn't well known. People know they can get concussions, but the long term effects of those? And even without concussions?