“Dehumanizing sounds so extreme, but when you’re fighting for a football at the bottom of the pile, it is kind of dehumanizing,” he said during a series of conversations over the spring and summer. “It’s like a spectacle of violence, for entertainment, and you’re the actors in it. You’re complicit in that: You put on the uniform. And it’s a trivial thing at its core. It’s make-believe, really. That’s the truth about it.”
“Dehumanizing sounds so extreme, but when you’re fighting for a football at the bottom of the pile, it is kind of…
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as a niners fan, I was sad to see him go, but very proud to see why and see him stand up like this afterwards.
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Fascinating article. Until not so long ago I thought that American football was a slightly softer version of rugby due to all the helmets and padding, but then I realised that if anything, it’s a safety mechanism not to have the helmets and the padding. Much harder to smash at full speed into someone else’s head if it’s just the squishy head there rather than a stout helmet, right?
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But then you read: http://www.brain-injury-law-center.com/latest-news/head-injuries-rugby-vs-football/
I guess what we’re really seeing is the difference between boxing with head guards and without – both versions involve brain injury, but head guards mean people hit harder.
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http://www.brain-injury-law-center.com/latest-news/watch-out-for-that-soccer-ball/ too.
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