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Originally Posted by WhiteWhale
JMO.
Football is a game of inches. Every ounce of energy you expend helping an opponent up is energy you don't have later in the game to knock them down.
People are calling this sportsmanship, and that's bullshit. It's not 'unsportsmanlike' to make someone pick themselves up off of the ground. One is not an 'asshole' for not doing so. It's competition.
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Nobody is saying that players should be required to help opposing players up. All that is being said is that nobody should get upset if a player chooses to help an opposing player up.
Do you not condone a player helping one of his own teammates up? Helping a teammate up expends the same amount of energy and that is energy that could be used to knock the opponent down on the next play.