Trump Neurosis Thread

[Encia22]

Once when I played Rugby I got tackled - hard-and ended up on the floor, ball under my chest and half a dozen big blokes on top of me.

I got penalized for not releasing the ball. Like, how could I?

:beer:

Damn referees, I hate them all!

 

[Oldcarpy2]

"Oh, I say...some sections of the fans are questioning the Referees parentage..."

- Commentator Brian Moore.

[Oldcarpy2]

Chant was: "Who's the *******, who's the *******, who's the ******* in the black"?

[putnam6]

Baseball is basically Rounders.

American Football? Why all the helmets and body armour?

Rugby , now that's a proper contact sport. No crash helmets and armour.

Football is the Beautiful Game.

Doesn't matter though, we'll still probably get knocked out by Germany.

American football has helmets and body armor because, in the early 1900s, there was a move to abolish American football completely. After all, participants were getting maimed and killed whilst participating on the gridiron at the universities of America

https://newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/...grid-game/

Teddy Roosevelt loved the rough-and-tumble of football the way college athletes played it back in 1895. He even wrote a letter saying he had no use for critics who objected to the violent game. But a decade later, newspapers made much of the injuries and fatalities caused by football – the death harvest of 1905. College presidents threatened to ban football from their campuses.

 
Then in 1905, the Chicago Tribune reported, 19 people died playing football that season. The Cincinnati Commercial Tribune counted even more — 25 killed and 168 seriously injured playing football that year.
 
On the last day of the 1905 college football season, a Yale player punched Harvard’s Francis Burr in the face, breaking his nose, and another kicked him unconscious. The assault fell within the rules of the day.

Three other college players died playing the game that season, including Harold Moore of Union College. He got a blow to his head in a game against New York University and died six hours later.
 
A 13-year-old Salem, Mass., boy died of internal injuries sustained in a game that year. And a game in Bridgeport, Conn., broke a man’s back and killed him.

“Football is on trial,” Roosevelt said. “Because I believe in the game, I want to do all I can to save it. And so I have called you all down here to see whether you won’t all agree to abide by both the letter and spirit of the rules, for that will help.”

 
A few weeks after the summit with Yale, Princeton and Harvard, Roosevelt asked Harvard’s coach, Bill Reid, for an update. Reid felt pressured by President Eliot to reform the game. Otherwise Eliot would ban it.
 
Reid told Roosevelt that Camp ran the rules committee with a member of the U.S. Naval Academy faculty, Paul Dashiell. Reid suggested he draft rule changes that Harvard could support. Then Roosevelt could pressure Dashiell into accepting them. The Naval Academy, after all, belonged to the executive branch of government. And if Dashiell caved to Roosevelt, then Camp would have to cave, too.
 
The rules passed. They would change over time, but they essentially included the forward pass, the 10-yard first down and the neutral zone between the offense and defense.
 
“Except for this chain of events there might now be no such thing as American football as we know it,” Bill Reid later said. “You asked me whether President Theodore Roosevelt helped save the game. I can tell you that he did.”
 

[Oldcarpy2]

"How do you feel about playing on Astro Turf"?

"Dunno, Man, never smoked it".

[UltraBudgie]

Speaking of neurosis, why is there an entire Wikipedia article on "Donald Trump and American Football"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Tru...n_football

He really lives in their heads, doesn't he?

[Oldcarpy2]

I see Trump is repeating his $350 Billion lie, again......

[sahgwa]

You can age me by my football heroes
Eric Cantona
Wayne Rooney 
David Beckham
Andriy Shevchenko
Park Ji seong

[putnam6]

Footballs great. American football is boring af , they keep stopping for ads.  And they can't run more than a few yards.  No like. 
Hockey also great.  football on ice. 
Baseball is not a sport. Baseball is a . . . past time. :D 
Trump. 
Thread.

Oh agree about ads can't stand them, European football doesn't have ads? I wouldn't know, to me it's a snooze fest. If they remove drinking I know I couldn't watch it

 

I'll watch our home NFL team and have been an avid fan since the 70s.

It's College Football that captures me the most, but even that is changing, there is so much money involved we are losing a competitive balance.

Hockey is good on TV but watching in person is the best visual game there is.

We don't have a local team anymore but I enjoyed it immensely both times we did have a franchise, and I can't ice skate worth a shit. I'll still watch the playoffs and Stanley Cup

Generally, the public enjoys what they did as kids, and in my neck of the woods, it was football, baseball, and basketball with a spattering of skateboarding and motocross and a lot of us boys enjoyed hunting.

[sahgwa]

Oh agree about ads can't stand them, European football doesn't have ads? I wouldn't know, to me it's a snooze fest. 

 

Generally no adverts except the half time. then they are crammed in while you go get more drinkage and snackage.  otherwise its non stop action, man.