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To: epicure who wrote (81874)	9/3/2008 8:23:56 PM
From: cnyndwllr	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543043

I agree...again. The injuries in football are worrisome, especially today. When I played it was considered a cheap shot to take out a guy who wasn't part of the play. Now we have the sportscenter highlights where someone unloads a guy outside the play and everyone applauds, including many coaches. One of the best lessons in life from sports is to watch the abuse of power that many coaches exemplify. Before one game in college our coach told us that on the kickoff we should crush the other players who were standing around watching the football roll to a stop. I told him I wasn't going to injure some guy who was in for one play, wasn't warmed up and wasn't ready to take a hit. He didn't like that but he liked it even less a couple of weeks later when I caught him naked in the shower and told him that I didn't mind someone criticizing me in order to help me improve but I wasn't going to take some sonofabitch yelling at me just because he felt like yelling. I was mad and he stood there with the water running across his face and never even blinked. But I never started another game either. Both of my boys were very athletic. My oldest son didn't play football until he was a senior and then he started and was their leading receiver. My youngest son was MVP as a freshman and moved up to varsity as a sophomore and then didn't play again. I never encouraged them to play and when they didn't play I told them I thought it was a good decision. They had other sports and, unless you were a kid who thrived on the contact, those sports had just as much to offer and less to lose. (My daughter, by the way, would have been a terminator on the football field...funny how genetics works. g.) But if you have a kid who has a love of music and football you should encourage him to do both. I think each can teach different life lessons and that early wisdom creates a geometric path to greater wisdom. Ed