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.
Wow this is getting hot. Warren,you are entitled to your definition of sport,I don't agree with it. Swimming is athletic and competative so to me it is a sport. It is also timed so it doesn't have the subjective component of some sports like gymnastics. Football is clearly hard. I don't think football players are over paid,especially compared to basketball or baseball players. They have a shorter playing lifespan and are more likely to end up debilitated. I remember reading in Sports Illustrated a few years that the incidence of severe injuries in any year for NFL players is 100%. Even with all our shoulder problems we can't match that,nor do I want to. Swimming is a very grueling difficult sport,it's just not very dangerous.
Wow this is getting hot. Warren,you are entitled to your definition of sport,I don't agree with it. Swimming is athletic and competative so to me it is a sport. It is also timed so it doesn't have the subjective component of some sports like gymnastics. Football is clearly hard. I don't think football players are over paid,especially compared to basketball or baseball players. They have a shorter playing lifespan and are more likely to end up debilitated. I remember reading in Sports Illustrated a few years that the incidence of severe injuries in any year for NFL players is 100%. Even with all our shoulder problems we can't match that,nor do I want to. Swimming is a very grueling difficult sport,it's just not very dangerous.
