Football Doesn't Have To Be This Violent, And Still Be Excit ...

Jim Green

• 04 december 2017
• 9781981440450

Samenvatting:

This book has a dual personality….but more on that later… I recently asked a fellow football nut: Do you watch football for the outstanding talent/plays, or the violence—and he immediately said the outstanding plays—and, indeed, the NFL has some of the most gifted athletes in the world—Who can forget the miracle one-handed catch by Odell Beckham Jr., just to name one—but his talent has been silenced this year because of the game’s excessive violence—a major reason for writing this book….the violence undermines, rather than enhances football, both for the quality of the game, and for the majority of fans….In a recent KC Chiefs game—Alex Smith made a particularly long run towards the end zone, a defender grabbed him around the waist and slammed him into the ground. Sorry I don’t remember the game, but was in the 2017 season. The point is that this was an obvious “unnecessary roughness”—since Smith was out of the pocket, it wasn’t a “roughing the passer”—but the penalty objective is the same—the penalty is to limit injury to players—and to lose a valuable quarter back is a collective loss—minimizing their injury is infinitely magnified in maintaining the quality of football! It is possible the ref didn’t see the play—no penalty was called—but it didn’t add to the excitement of the game, and had Smith been injured—the game of football is diminished!