As I was browsing around for articles on tonights Bengals/Ravens game I ran across this article and this quote.
www.msnbc.msn.com/.../
"I mean, this isn't a soft sport. We don't play chess. This isn't swimming. This isn't one of those kind of sports. It's football. It takes a man to play this game, and to play this game you have to have passion.''
I had to laugh.
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Swim meets might not be football like with the contact, however, in practice I have and others have taken a beating in the pool. There is nothing like being in an out reached position streamlined and getting a kick in the ribs by a breaststroker in next lane, and we dont have pads to protect ourselves. Or what about getting whacked in the head by a hand or even worse paddles, nothing like getting split open by a paddle, and we dont wear helments. You dont really see to many swimmers huffing on oxygen after a few minutes of a workout either, seems I always see the football players inhaling somthing on the sidelines.
I'll stick with swimming over football for longer lasting better effects now and down the road in years health wise.
greg
Swim meets might not be football like with the contact, however, in practice I have and others have taken a beating in the pool. There is nothing like being in an out reached position streamlined and getting a kick in the ribs by a breaststroker in next lane, and we dont have pads to protect ourselves. Or what about getting whacked in the head by a hand or even worse paddles, nothing like getting split open by a paddle, and we dont wear helments. You dont really see to many swimmers huffing on oxygen after a few minutes of a workout either, seems I always see the football players inhaling somthing on the sidelines.
I'll stick with swimming over football for longer lasting better effects now and down the road in years health wise.
greg
