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RE: Indiana great Antwaan Randle El regrets playing in the NFL
hindsight is 20/20

would I play in the NFL if I could, and get millions doing it?

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01-20-2016 02:55 PM
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RE: Indiana great Antwaan Randle El regrets playing in the NFL
It won't disappear, but it might be unrecognizable in years to come.
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(01-20-2016 02:55 PM)EvilVodka Wrote:  hindsight is 20/20

would I play in the NFL if I could, and get millions doing it?

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The difference here is that he had the option of playing baseball and was drafted by the Cubs. But you are correct that hindsight is 20/20 so it's easy to dwell on the negative now as opposed to realizing he had the chance to do what very few have ever done but dream of.
01-20-2016 04:56 PM
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(01-20-2016 01:40 PM)Frog in the Kitchen Sink Wrote:  Turning Randal El's thinking around onto fans, if one is convinced that CTE/ head and spinal cord trauma is significant cause of morbidity and mortality in football players, as a consumer of the football "product", is one ethically responsible to stop watching? At what point do we become akin to the masses that watched the Roman Gladiators fight to the death? Overly dramatic, I know, but somewhere there is a line for all of us.

That is an excellent point.
01-21-2016 12:41 PM
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The issue that may well be worth noting is, Randel El missed few if any games due to injury, so week to week, he was good enough to play. And 5 years after his career is over, he is STILL having these issues. I think we assume the players who had their bells rung noticeably, would have problems. Wes Welker, Troy Aikman etc. But when players who seemingly made it out unscathed have these issues, it is something worth listening to.
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RE: Indiana great Antwaan Randle El regrets playing in the NFL
Mr. Randle El is probably regretting the fact that football isn't very lucrative for the players.

He had an outstanding football career - was in the league for 9 years, played for 4 playoff teams, 2 time All-Pro, and was a great contributor on special teams. And he only earned about $22 million.

How much would a 2-time all-star in baseball earn? Just for fun, I picked the 2007 Cincinnati Reds at random (a team that didn't have a winning record from 2000-2009) and found that every single starter, including all the starting pitchers and the closer, earned over $20 million in his career except Scott Hatteberg (the first baseman who had career earnings of $13 million).
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Baseball players are notoriously overpaid after they arrive in the majors, so you have a good point.
01-21-2016 09:13 PM
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162 games. Plus camp/spring training, it's an 8 month grind. Baseball guys will keep going to the games and why not? It's an awesome sport to watch live. Even my nephew's little league is filled with drama and intensity. Football is probably the worst sport to be at live when you compare it to the TV experience. Nobody wants to see dudes tossing the pigskin around from a hundred yard plus vantage point.
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Those contracts some players get are still bloated. That's the thing, you have to overpay to get talent because the market drives it.
01-23-2016 02:30 PM
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(01-23-2016 02:30 PM)_C2_ Wrote:  Those contracts some players get are still bloated. That's the thing, you have to overpay to get talent because the market drives it.

Football won't go away, but games will be much shorter. It'll be the reverse of today's format, with each school's band and flag-wavers taking the field for one fifteen-minute quarter in the first half, followed by a short football (or maybe flag-ball?) game at halftime. Then, each band will perform another fifteen-minute routine before time runs out. Spectators will vote to determine which band outplays the other, and nobody will care about the silly little halftime football game. As now, that's when folks will hit the concession stands and restrooms so they can get back in their seats before the bands resume marching about and playing in the second half.

Bands will be judged not only on musicality, but also on their marching ability and the kinds of formations they make. Expect mission creep. The immense Buckeye band, for example, will no longer be content to spell out the script OHIO. Instead, the musicians will be spelling out THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY, COLUMBUS, OHIO, ON THE BANKS OF THE SCIOTO RIVER. Of course, at the expense of their rivals, they'll demand more than their allotted time to complete that large and complex maneuver. Some things never change.

In the event of a tie, when the spectators can't decide which band is best during regulation time, each band will get to perform for another fifteen minutes, and gates will be locked so observers can't escape before they take a final vote. It'll be glorious.

I can't even imagine what bowl games will be like, but I do know that all of us will be so sick of hearing musical tributes to Jerome Kern and the like during the regular season that we'll want to shoot ourselves. Once that crap gets in your head...
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What sport will replace it? Obviously the not at all violent Aussie Rules Football.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxhqXzVBen4
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(01-21-2016 09:13 PM)_C2_ Wrote:  Baseball players are notoriously overpaid after they arrive in the majors, so you have a good point.

??? MLB revenues are about equal to NFL revenues - the NFL is ahead but not by that much. The difference is that the MLB player's union is much stronger than the NFL player's union. The result is that the NFL has a salary cap and MLB doesn't.

There's really nothing more to it than that. Salary cap = lower salaries for players.
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My point is that in numerous cases, baseball players get more than they would otherwise because other GM's feel they have to or lose out on a crucial piece. The NBA also has this factor and this factor matters the least in the NFL, which has the hardest salary cap.
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Basketball has it's share of concussions too. Many a player has struck His head on the floor, backboard or another players head. I watched Blake G. hit his head on the backboard during an NCAA game live on TV a few years back.
01-25-2016 06:45 AM
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Greed and people wanting more and more games to watch. You see it all the time in college football with people wanting this dumb 8 team playoff stuff.

The season is already too long with a 4 team playoff. Cut out a regular season game and have the season done the first week of Jan.

Ban SEC's love fest of FCS games in Nov. and we have that issue taken care of in that conference. For B1G, two non-conference games and we have that solved. Very easy to fix, but greed in the end is what controls it.
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(01-19-2016 11:26 PM)Kittonhead Wrote:  
(01-19-2016 11:24 PM)Frog in the Kitchen Sink Wrote:  What if he's right and football isn't around in 20-25 years? What sport fills the void?

Soccer.

Ice Hockey becomes more prominent and Rugby gains a foothold
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(01-25-2016 02:24 PM)Policiious Wrote:  
(01-19-2016 11:26 PM)Kittonhead Wrote:  
(01-19-2016 11:24 PM)Frog in the Kitchen Sink Wrote:  What if he's right and football isn't around in 20-25 years? What sport fills the void?

Soccer.

Ice Hockey becomes more prominent and Rugby gains a foothold

I support this with every fiber of my being.
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