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Ban College Football?
Posted on 5/21/12 at 4:05 pm
Posted on 5/21/12 at 4:05 pm
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Everyone who loves college football and the young men who play the game needs to watch this exchange. For the proposition Ban College Football were Buzz Bissinger, a Pulitzer Prize winning author and Malcolm Gladwell, a well-known, distinguished author currently writing for the New Yorker Magazine. Opposing the proposition that college football be banned were Tim Green, an NFL great who played defensive end for the Atlanta Falcons—recruited out of Syracuse University. Joining Green in opposition to banning college football was Jason Whitlock who played his college football at Ball State as an offensive lineman—now a national columnist for Fox Sports.
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Fascinating debate if you have the time and inclination. I love college football, but I am in the minority that believes it is truly a damaging addiction. Should it be banned? No. Should the course of major college football be fundamentally changed? Absolutely.
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Posted on 5/21/12 at 4:07 pm to The_Pistol
Did I just waste my time reading this?
I can tell you for certain that I did NOT pop a chubby reading your post. This did NOT happen to me:
I can tell you for certain that I did NOT pop a chubby reading your post. This did NOT happen to me:
This post was edited on 5/21/12 at 4:17 pm
Posted on 5/21/12 at 4:07 pm to The_Pistol
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Posted on 5/21/12 at 4:08 pm to The_Pistol
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Ban College Football?
Posted on 5/21/12 at 4:15 pm to CNB
It's one way to beat Saban.
Posted on 5/21/12 at 4:17 pm to Herman Frisco
We should also ban skiing, skate boarding, biking, MMA and any thing that might remotely involve injuries..
Posted on 5/21/12 at 4:19 pm to The_Pistol
Posted on 5/21/12 at 4:19 pm to The_Pistol
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Ban College Football?
Posted on 5/21/12 at 4:25 pm to The_Pistol
In Idiocracy 2, I predict President Comacho and Beef Supreme will debate in an all-gif format.
Posted on 5/21/12 at 4:28 pm to The_Pistol
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In Idiocracy 2, I predict President Comacho and Beef Supreme will debate in an all-gif format.
Posted on 5/21/12 at 4:34 pm to The_Pistol
The very fact that such issues are now being debated means that someday it will be banned. Isn't that sad that the only sport that uniquely got its start on college campuses will one day be banned from those very campuses. Hmmmmmmm.......
Posted on 5/21/12 at 4:37 pm to ELVIS U
What a waste of a thread! It won't be banned. And only the smart people use gifs in the future. The dumbasses start threads about college football needing to be banned. FYI.
Posted on 5/21/12 at 4:40 pm to ELVIS U
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The very fact that such issues are now being debated means that someday it will be banned. Isn't that sad that the only sport that uniquely got its start on college campuses will one day be banned from those very campuses. Hmmmmmmm.......
there is no way
Posted on 5/21/12 at 4:43 pm to ELVIS U
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The very fact that such issues are now being debated means that someday it will be banned.
Highly unlikely. There's more public will to balance the federal budget, and that won't even get done in my lifetime. I'd put banning college football as likely as flying cars.
More of a certainty is that college football will soon evolve into something more of a semi-professional sport or minor-league farm system for the NFL. We'll look back on this era of college football as the Golden Era of Corruption and Exploitation. A consortium of corrupt university presidents, bowl executives, and run amuck athletic departments will eventually collapse.
Posted on 5/21/12 at 4:46 pm to mizzoukills
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What a waste of a thread! It won't be banned. And only the smart people use gifs in the future. The dumbasses start threads about college football needing to be banned. FYI.
Thanks for contributing to the thread. You should be on that debate panel next time. If Jason Whitlock had just opened by calling everybody dumbasses, maybe he would have won the debate.
Posted on 5/21/12 at 4:49 pm to mgmbamafan
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We should also ban skiing, skate boarding, biking, MMA and any thing that might remotely involve injuries..
Driving too. Have you seen how many people are injured by automobile accidents each year? And companies like Toyota and Acura continue to pump out these death machines.
frickING BAN CARS AND THE PROTEST CORPORATIONS WHO MANUFACTURE THEM!
This post was edited on 5/21/12 at 4:50 pm
Posted on 5/21/12 at 4:57 pm to FootballHog
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We should also ban skiing, skate boarding, biking, MMA and any thing that might remotely involve injuries..
The difference is that college football, in many cases, uses public funds that are appropriated to institutions of higher learning. Nobody in that debate is advocating banning professional football.
Posted on 5/21/12 at 5:02 pm to The_Pistol
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Nobody in that debate is advocating banning professional football.
No, but one of them, I think Malcom Gladwell, is for banning college football, but had problems when presented with the stats that rowing had 16 times the deaths per 100k players. Oops.
Posted on 5/21/12 at 6:35 pm to relapse98
i expect it to fade to black some day. when the federal government assumes complete control of college football. then deems that half the players and coaches have to be female. i expect interest to wane at that point.
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