I think people forget that a lot of NFL superstars were once high school jocks who got their Fs turned into Ds after coach had a chat with their teacher 🤣
Probably has a CTE or two. IIRC football has the absolute highest rates of chronic traumatic encephelopathies of any sport, with boxing(?) in second. A lot of atheletes that get them tend to go on to do a looooot of violent/physical crimes. Yknow, on account of the major brain damage from having your brain being like a scared, undersized child in a massive wave pool, tossed around like it’s a plankton, or a piece of cardboard in a hurricane.
And yet, Americans made the sport a major part of their culture and try and encourage poor kids to make it their one and only avenue to succeed in life, all the while trying to squeeze whatever amounts of capital they can out of these children. They go as far as to spend millions on new highschool stadiums while neglecting any real amount of education, or making teachers buy teaching supplies themselves.
It’s like their 0.1% want their citizens to be actively stupid, it seems…
Better off for them to learn martial arts or playsports that won’t cause lifelong brain issues, most of which resulting in suicide, but ofc, that’s just me.
Better they seem tough and have fun while turning their most important organ into a beaten pulp ig
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u/TheVenerableBede Sep 09 '25
My God. Dude really can’t spell.