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Democrats badly underestimated Trump. These are CNN bait-and-switch articles. The headline makes you say, "Well, ol' CNN has finally seen the light", then after the first sentence, they badmouth Trump all the way through. Soon as I start thinking the libs have run out of ways to attack Trump, something like this comes along. Seen a couple of these on various news aggregation sites already this A.M.

#1 BillH on 2018-06-30 11:01 (Reply)

May they continue to! I'm pretty certain they will, because they simply CAN NOT understand Trump.

#1.1 Sam L. on 2018-06-30 11:29 (Reply)

re New Helmet Rule Could Make NFL Unrecognizable

I would care if I still cared about the NFL.

I don't.

But it sounds like a very bad rule. It looks like they are putting their officials in a no-win situation.

The helmet-to-helmet contact rule in college football, where the defender is ejected if it is arbitrarily determined he first made contact with his helmet, is a bad rule.

The NFL rule looks to be an order of magnitude worse.

Having said all that, if any other business in the USA had head injuries at the rate the NFL workers incur them, that business would have been fined out of existence and the owners jailed long ago by OSHA.

#2 feeblemind on 2018-06-30 11:43 (Reply)

I don't care about the NFL either, but I have an opinion on this.

If there were no helmets or pads, players wouldn't hit as hard as they do because it would hurt them so it's a never ending problem. The pads make it easier to hit hard, the hard hitting requires more pads.

The "real" reason for the pads is for blocking. If you didn't have blocking, you could do away with the pads all together. See rugby or Australian Rules Football for examples. They tackle without pads but because there is no blocking, they don't "need" any.

The game will likely die before they make a drastic change like that. Judging from the declining attendance at games, it will die a lot sooner. I won't be sad to see it go.

#2.1 mudbug on 2018-06-30 12:55 (Reply)

Agreed mudbug.

I also wonder if a return to single platoon football (players must play both offense and defense) with baseball rules for substitutions would mitigate the concussions as well?

It would take a different style of player, perhaps with a soccer player's build and conditioning to play an entire game. It makes me think that the fatigue factor and leaner physique may lesson the ability to deliver concussive hits.

#2.1.1 feeblemind on 2018-06-30 14:32 (Reply)

I see the same in the NHL: seriously hard plastic shoulder pads and helmets. Should we revert - at least in part - to the old soft leather pads for everything but heads? That way, a nasty hit wouldn't have such serious repercussions.

I'm in Canada; watch the CFL rather than the NFL. Our league getting interesting with respect to helmet-to-helmet contact. The boys are being told to back off and just as well; there's a rather infamous player (Eastern Conference) whose whole plan is to knock an opposing player out of the game. He laid a nasty hit on Calgary's Jon Cornish - an extremely talented player - in 2014 which resulted in Cornish missing much of the season due to a concussion and retiring relatively early. The man whose hit resulted in that concussion is still around, and was trying the same games this past week; fines and suspensions do not seem to work.

I'd like to see a good hard-hitting football game when disabling the opponent isn't an objective. Will it happen?

#2.1.2 Frances on 2018-07-01 01:10 (Reply)

UW students(?) who feel bad about what the prof wrote need to change themselves.

My local fishwrap. I dropped it years ago for it's leftism.

Dems underestimated Trump: Heh, heh, heh. Still are, too, being 5 steps behind.

What's wrong with Britain: May. Parliament. Too many Muslims who won't become Brits.

New helmet rule in NFL: I don't watch it now, and haven't for years.

#3 Sam L. on 2018-06-30 11:48 (Reply)

"Lindsay Shepherd Is Suing Wilfrid Laurier University..."

… for 3.6 million Canadian dollars. That's s-o-o-o typically Canadian.

In your country, she'd be suing them for $360 million!

Nothing focuses the mind of a university president and administration better than the prospect of bankrupcy.

Still, any way you look at it, Ms Shepherd is likely to get a generous settlement. Let's hope the university copes with the expense by "downsizing" all those involved in this nonsense.

By the way, WLU began life as Waterloo Lutheran University, changing its name to Wilfrid Laurier University in 1973. That too is so typically Canadian: change the name but retain the initials to save a buck or two. I guess they wanted to become more "inclusive" and less Lutheran.

(Sir Wilfrid Laurier was our seventh PM.)

#4 JJM on 2018-06-30 13:27 (Reply)

Nice pic. Looks like Slough Pond in Truro (?)

#5 stimpy on 2018-07-01 03:28 (Reply)

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Saturday, June 30. 2018

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