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Originally Posted by Rockin Robbins
We do it all the time. We sneer at the Japanese sumo wrestlers killing themselves by mutating their bodies in unhealthy ways.
Meanwhile, the nasty secret is that the average lifespan of your garden variety NFL lineman is about 45 years! Five years of glory--15 years of physical misery from the accumulated injuries and death at half a lifespan. That's just great! I daresay sumo wrestlers do better than that...
Yet, how much glory do we heap on these suicide warriors? How many healthy, physically capable kids are devoting all their dreams, thoughts and energies to attaining a position of death today?
Hell! We won't permit people to smoke because it MIGHT subtract five years from their lives, but we make heroes of people willingly sacrificing 30 to 45 years! Yay us  !!!!
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I can agree with a lot of that.
where we dont see eye to eye is the smoking thing.
I'm personally glad they have outlawed smoking in public places in my town.
its not the smoker's health i am worried about... its
mine.
though i fully support one's right to smoke (i even enjoy a good cigar once every 18-24 months)
i cant say that i much appreciate cigarette smoke puffing around all over my family and myself while we are trying to enjoy dinner.
Cigar and Pipe smoke generally has a pleasing aroma and depending on the brand can be almost incense like - cigarette smoke on the other hand...
most brands just have a rather unpleasant odor which stings the nostrils with a kind of bitterness.
if im hanging around in a bar, a strip club, on a camp site or on an aircraft tarmac - i certainly dont mind cigarette smoke as in those certain situations it is almost expected.
of course all of this is just my opinion - many might disagree.
but there is a time and a place for a smoke, and a classy restaurant at 6pm is not the place nor the time.
as far as football players go, it is a rather destructive lifestyle, and depending on the position you play you can walk away with broken limbs or a concussion...
however injuries that could be considered "immediately life threatening" are exceptionally rare in the game of football.
in the cage or in the ring of boxing where the objective is to knock your opponent out cold by repeatedly crushing his face or skull - yeah - something about that seems most unwise.
when i played football i never walked onto a field expecting to get hurt, and the only injury i ever suffered was a cut about 1/4 inch long on my right hand after it made contact with the sharp edge of a chin strap button on an opposing player's helmet. several seasons of play -
one "minor injury".
i think when a boxer inters the ring... everybody knows someone
is going to get hurt in virtually every single match.
A lot of things happen when you take a forceful impact to the head... a lot of those things can kill you instantly... others can take a few days to kill you slowly.