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NYC_SKP

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1. I would end all High School and College contact team sports. It's an embarrassment.

Tue Oct 7, 2014, 11:58 AM

Oct 2014

Further, I would tax professional sports to the greatest possible level.

No argument in their favor can be made. There's no such thing as sportsmanship or fairness.

It's a fucking joke and fans should check themselves and their values.

WTF?

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Premier High School Football Team Forfeits Games Amid Investigation into Hazing Allegations [View all] tomm2thumbs Oct 2014 OP

I would end all High School and College contact team sports. It's an embarrassment. NYC_SKP Oct 2014 #1

You forgot your sarcasm tag. joeglow3 Oct 2014 #2

You forgot your thinking cap. valerief Oct 2014 #6

Actually, it was the presence of a thinking cap that led me to post joeglow3 Oct 2014 #8

Agreed. And I played pretty much every sport in HS and College n/t broadcaster75201 Oct 2014 #4

I'm with you there! Swimming, tennis, volleyball. You can get a real workout valerief Oct 2014 #5

As the parent of a high school hockey player, I vehemently disagree hack89 Oct 2014 #7

Same with me for both football and wrestling joeglow3 Oct 2014 #11

Fuck aggressive sports, I don't want to pay for someone else's kid's fucking sports. NYC_SKP Oct 2014 #12

Well shit, if that is what you want, lets all accommodate you. joeglow3 Oct 2014 #14

Good for you!!! gopiscrap Oct 2014 #27

We can have hugging competitions ! Oktober Oct 2014 #43

I love sacrcastaball joeglow3 Oct 2014 #46

Busted... Oktober Oct 2014 #47

Really?? Only the "contact team sports??" Blue_Tires Oct 2014 #30

some did a study of fans vs. non-fans... yurbud Oct 2014 #33

This message was self-deleted by its author Oktober Oct 2014 #42

The coaches set the tone for the program. It's heartbreaking for those kids that they got stuck in Brickbat Oct 2014 #3

Eric Dixon Reports: Sayreville High School Cancels Football, Bullies The Good In Easy Way Out al bupp Oct 2014 #9

Publicly funded schools should NOT be about promoting aggressive sports of any form. NYC_SKP Oct 2014 #10

Some of us can walk and chew gum joeglow3 Oct 2014 #15

At halftime at home games, several our of HS football players join the marching band (in their pads) Brickbat Oct 2014 #18

Exactly. It saddens me when people crusade to end just the things THEY don't like joeglow3 Oct 2014 #19

Agreed. Brickbat Oct 2014 #20

Football causes lifelong brain damage regardless of whether any of us like the sport or not. yurbud Oct 2014 #35

You might want to chime in here on "dangerous" equipment joeglow3 Oct 2014 #16

No, I just don't want to fund bullies, bully sports, bully games and bully uniforms. NYC_SKP Oct 2014 #21

So anyone who plays football or wrestling is a bully? joeglow3 Oct 2014 #22

+1 Oktober Oct 2014 #44

This message was self-deleted by its author radicalliberal Jul 2015 #48

Our local HS has a great football team and a 150 person marching band hack89 Oct 2014 #17

Maybe I am mistaken but gladium et scutum Oct 2014 #23

I totally agree! gopiscrap Oct 2014 #28

canceling it for at least the year was an appropriate response though their stated reason was clumsy yurbud Oct 2014 #34

Involuntary Deviate Sexual Intercourse, Aggravated Assault, Kidnapping... KurtNYC Oct 2014 #13

Sadly, the problem is that many of the fans simply don't care. radicalliberal Oct 2014 #24

This the product of our agressive gopiscrap Oct 2014 #29

Very enlightening info you got there CANDO Oct 2014 #37

Read 'Crossing the Line' shenmue Oct 2014 #25

Get rid of high school inter-varsity competative sports gopiscrap Oct 2014 #26

You'd probably have to ditch marching bands, too Blue_Tires Oct 2014 #32

Who wants a tame society? Oktober Oct 2014 #45

I blame the coaching davidn3600 Oct 2014 #31

I suspect this happened during previous seasons rocktivity Oct 2014 #36

k and r...no text.. Stuart G Oct 2014 #38

Good move to cancel the remainder of the season. roamer65 Oct 2014 #39

Exclusive: Parent Reveals Sexual Nature of Alleged Locker Room Hazing Ritual rocktivity Oct 2014 #40

are football coaches trying to make scoutmasters and Catholic priests look better by comparison? yurbud Oct 2014 #41