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National Flag Football League?I cannot believe how many NFL players and sports media members are complaining about the helmet to helmet contact issue and the fines that were dispensed this weekend. Brian Urlacher of the Bears made some snide remark about turning the league into the "National Flag Football league."
There is a big difference between hard hits, and lowering your head and hitting a defenseless player. You always have a choice to tackle a player with your arms or shoulder pad as opposed to lowering your head and trying to kill or paralyze someone.
I was at the Eagles game last Sunday and I saw DeSean Jackson get hit. As soon as he was hit the ref called a penalty for "hitting a defenseless receiver." My fear was that DeSean would be paralyzed. He didn't get up or move for 5-10 minutes.
DeSean is arguably the Eagles best offensive player. What if one of the Eagle's players launched himself at Peyton Manning or Drew Brees' head - knocking him cold, and rendering them useless (or worse?) for a game or two. Suddenly the media would be on this issue and head to head contact would become an "important" issue. Is ESPN trying to say that the QB's are the stars and the recievers are just interchangable cogs?
I think the NFL is going in the right direction. I don't like how they coddle the QB's so much (think Tom Brady and anyone going near his legs now) - yet overall I think protecting vulnerable receivers is the way to go. What if Anquan Boldin had been killed here?
The time to protect these players is now at hand.
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Went to watch 30 for 30 tonight. Got NASCAR qualifying instead. Really? Total FAIL!
Seriously, ESPN and DirecTV get your act together. Outrage of the DayJames Davenport of Portsmouth, Va., reports he was at an event at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility in Newport News, Va., a pure-science facility, nothing to do with weapons or defense: "I witnessed Energy Secretary Steven Chu's entourage arriving at the site and attended his appearance. There were four personal staff members with Chu, plus two federal bodyguards and three Newport News police officers. Why does the Secretary of Energy need bodyguards?" Davenport adds that Chu's security detail arrived in a Ford Excursion, a mega-SUV that gets less than 10 mpg and emits seven to eight tons of greenhouse gases annually. Chu himself has said artificial climate change could make entire states uninhabitable and that "I am hoping the American people wake up" to the danger of greenhouse gases.
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