Fascinating article on American football and the longterm mental issues that players have to deal with. Also compares it with dogfighting in that it's fundamentally a betrayal of trust to the players/dogs from their respective "owners".
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009 ... ntPage=all
How different are dogfighting and football?
Re: How different are dogfighting and football?
Good read, started .... but have to come back & finish as it is long 
I never understood the apparent fascination with 'football', especially the aggressive contact varieties; the non sphere shaped ball ones.
Wonder. is that because I played soccer in my early years and can still talk about it
I never understood the apparent fascination with 'football', especially the aggressive contact varieties; the non sphere shaped ball ones.
Wonder. is that because I played soccer in my early years and can still talk about it
Re: How different are dogfighting and football?
Hand egg.
Thick, solid and tight in all the right places.
Re: How different are dogfighting and football?
At least dogs don't murder their girlfriends and then commit suicide.
Re: How different are dogfighting and football?
I dunno. Mike Vick might know. Should ask him.
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Incidentally, this was posted over at slashdot:
http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/12 ... fl-players
"On the heels of the latest NFL suicide, researchers announced today that 34 NFL players whose brains were studied suffered from CTE, a degenerative brain disease brought on by repeated hits to the head that results in confusion, depression and, eventually, dementia.
http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/12 ... fl-players