Do we really
need Obama’s opinion on football? He
should worry more about the high unemployment rate, keep his opinion on
football to himself! But once again Libs
have a new bone to play with. And when
that happens they don’t stop until they ban the game of football or change it
to it until it becomes unrecognizable.
Hello! Football is supposed to be violent! It’s a man’s sport that separates the men
from the boys. You take the violence out
of football, and it ain’t football anymore.
It becomes a game of glorified tag.
President
Barack Obama said he loves football but thinks the sport should "probably
change gradually" so that there are fewer concussions, particularly at the
college level.
"I'm a
big football fan, but I have to tell you if I had a son, I'd have to think long
and hard before I let him play football," Obama said in a wide-ranging
interview with The New Republic magazine published early on Sunday on its
website.
Football is America's
most popular televised sport, an industry worth $9 billion a year. But in
recent years, suicides by brain-injured players and lawsuits from their
families have raised concerns about the impact of repeated concussions.
In the
interview, Obama was asked how he squares his love of the game with rising
awareness of the impact of repeated head injuries on football players.
"I
think that those of us who love the sport are going to have to wrestle with the
fact that it will probably change gradually to try to reduce some of the
violence," Obama said.
"In
some cases, that may make it a little bit less exciting, but it will be a whole
lot better for the players, and those of us who are fans maybe won't have
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