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Add to FavoritesOf course the N.F.L. is full of thugs.That's only to be expected considering the facts that
1.The 'game' is nothing but an even more comical version of rugby.
2.The name football was stolen by liars to con people,cloud the issue and play on patriotic feelings(patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel).The ONLY excuse to call it football was to call a rugby object a football.Try explaining that away,liars.
It is disgraceful that football has to be called soccer(from Association Football)in North America because liars just will not come clean.Their last faint hope is to cling to the name football in the faint hope that some fine day in the sweet by and by they might just get away with it.What a despicable bunch.
Even under a different name which does not describe it,football is taking North America by storm,and no wonder considering what people here have had to put up with.People in the U.S.A. have been relentlessly brainwashed by football hating liars and they should tell them to go to hell,which they will.
The object rugby is 'played' with is simply not a ball.A ball is defined as a sphere,round in 3 dimensions,so rugby features a really queer ball.Maybe that shape will have an easier passage down the toilet bowl when all forms of rugby are flushed away.It could also make it easier for the idiots who stubbornly insist that any form of rugby is football to shove it up their backsides where it belongs,and where their brains are.
The 'uniforms'(heil Hitler)modelled by the plastic rugby queerballers are simply hilarious.Pads and a helmet combine with buttock hugging pantaloons to conjure up a vision of a big macho man in tights.What a queer fantasy!
Although football is the only game to have its name stolen it is interesting to consider what would be the result if the same trick was tried with tennis.Just imagine it,American tennis,which will be called tennis(we have as much right to use the name as anybody else).
The participants could be dolled up in the usual 'uniforms' of pads,helmets and tights,but instead of the cissy nonsense of being on opposite sides of a net this would be a real,full blooded,bone crunching contact sport,you betcha!They could be playing handball and bashing into each other!
Now wouldn't that be a hell of an improvement?A real rock 'em sock 'em macho man's game.
Boneheaded baboons would just love it!
The dreaming up of rugby was the first attempt to insinuate that there could be 'another type' of football.In Britain,people could see through this feeble pretence because football was already established and people who actually liked rugby were looked down on as stupid or even mentally deficient.
Rugby is a game perfectly suited to thugs,so it is no wonder that the N.F.L.is full of thugs.
All 'other types' of football are in fact other types of rugby.Don't be fooled.
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By now everyone knows of the exploits of Tank Johnson, Pac-man Jones, and Michael Vick. Gun law violations, night club shootings and animal cruelty are not elements that define high moral character. However, to pose the question of whether the NFL is or isn't full of thugs seems a bit slanted to a negative light.
The NFL is thirty-two teams each comprised of 53 players. That's one thousand, six hundred, ninety six people. When viewed as one singular unit, any of society's microcosms can seem overly populated by bad people, but for each and every Johnson, Jones, and Vick, there are also the Warrick Dunns.
Dunn, the Pro Bowl running back for the Atlanta Falcons, has won the Walter Payton Man of the Year award for his charity work. Dunn has established the Warrick Dunn Foundation and Homes for The Holidays, both charities that help single mothers obtain home ownership through benevolent means. Dunn is but just one of the good guys in the NFL.
New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees, along with San Diego Chargers running back Ladanian Tomlinson were named co winners of the Payton MOY award last year. Brees for his assistance to survivors of hurricane Katrina, and partnered with teammate Deuce McAllister to help rebuild the NFL Youth Education Town and Pan American Football Field, both in New Orleans.
Tomlinson leaves Chargers game tickets for underprivileged children in San Diego and treats them to dinner after the game, where they are also provided free school supplies and books.
When Ahman Green was traded to the Houston Texans from the Green Bay Packers he asked Texan cornerback Jason Simmons for the right to wear the #30 jersey, which Simmons had worn since he became a Texan player. Simmons agreed to let Green wear the #30 if he would give the money he offered to pay Simmons to Regina Foster. Foster is a single welfare Mom in Houston with a seven year old son named Reginald. Green even offered to provide the money needed for a full down payment on a Habitat For Humanity house for Foster in the Houston area.
Vick, Jones, and Johnson are not the first NFL players to gain notoriety for bad deeds off the field. Carolina Panthers wide receiver Rae Carruth was convicted of hiring a hit man to kill his pregnant girlfriend a few years ago to keep from paying child support for the baby he did not want. A professional athlete making millions could not bear the idea of paying to support his own child. Reprehensible and unforgivable action that belies the spoiled and above the law nature of many professional athletes. However, there have always been good guys in the NFL too. Joe Delaney, a running back for the Kansas City Chiefs lost his life saving two boys from drowning in the 1980s.
So as long as people are people then human nature will be what it is, unpredictable and relative to each individual. So the Johnson, Vicks, and Joneses of the NFL are not enough to say that the NFL is full of thugs. If the NFL were a glass and it's players were water I believe it would be half full. I choose to believe that because I'm an optimistic man. My glass is always half full.
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