My personal opinion on all competitive sports is that they require public infrastructure to facilitate them which is not efficient use of the resources. Instead of building a stadium for competitive sports, I would ensure local neighborhoods have space for everyone to go play a pickup game or just some catch.
When I was in college our admin tried to raise tuition for the whole student body instead of increasing activity fees. The most effective argument to stop it was saying, "We're totally cool with the football team being disbanded and the community being allowed to use the facility". Ten years later and the football team is gone, now I can practice frisbee golfing in the Winter and chuds are mad their Div 3 team is no more.
You don't need to ban the whole sport - just change the rules/equipment. Rugby is more violent, but doesn't have the same rate of TBIs because they aren't ramming each other with their heads all the time. (Or so I'm told - I understand neither sport.) But ban its current version, yes.
Adults should be allowed to do whatever they like assuming everyone involved is fully informed on the consequences and consents regardless of them, no matter how stupid of a thing to do it is. Deffo agree that children's football should be banned tho.
It cannot change the way it operates and still be viable. This exploitation of labor and the melding of private interest and public funding is the very heart of the industry.
My personal opinion on all competitive sports is that they require public infrastructure to facilitate them which is not efficient use of the resources. Instead of building a stadium for competitive sports, I would ensure local neighborhoods have space for everyone to go play a pickup game or just some catch.
When I was in college our admin tried to raise tuition for the whole student body instead of increasing activity fees. The most effective argument to stop it was saying, "We're totally cool with the football team being disbanded and the community being allowed to use the facility". Ten years later and the football team is gone, now I can practice frisbee golfing in the Winter and chuds are mad their Div 3 team is no more.
People enjoy watching sports. Let them. But the way the professional sports industry is operating definitely should change.
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football should be banned in favor of touch football so i can watch all the right wingers cry
You don't need to ban the whole sport - just change the rules/equipment. Rugby is more violent, but doesn't have the same rate of TBIs because they aren't ramming each other with their heads all the time. (Or so I'm told - I understand neither sport.) But ban its current version, yes.
I agree. All "contact sports" that are so dangerous should be abolished.
Adults should be allowed to do whatever they like assuming everyone involved is fully informed on the consequences and consents regardless of them, no matter how stupid of a thing to do it is. Deffo agree that children's football should be banned tho.
It cannot change the way it operates and still be viable. This exploitation of labor and the melding of private interest and public funding is the very heart of the industry.
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Essentially, we should have sports, but no sports industrial complex.
glorify the best soccer player in your neighborhood not the best soccer player in your country