Postby abloom » Sat Jul 25, 2020 5:24 pm
Bronco Billy wrote: ↑Sat Jul 25, 2020 2:23 pm
abloom wrote: ↑Sat Jul 25, 2020 9:42 am
Bronco Billy wrote: ↑Sat Jul 25, 2020 7:09 am
For a guy like Gurley is who has the gift to be able to play in the NFL to just shrug it off so lightly just really pisses me off.
We have a ton of people right now who don’t have a choice on whether they will go to work or not - they can’t because they lost their job and can’t find another one. You know, Todd, that we have people who defend this country and make literally 1/100th of what you make in a year doing it and get deployed overseas to sometimes God forsaken parts of the world for extended times away from their families as part of their jobs. And they take a lot greater chances with their lives than a young healthy guy like you does from any risk of COVID.
Are you saying that people should not be able to exercise their freedoms if it impacts your life? By sitting out he is doing the most patriotic thing, making a choice. Just like the choice people made to volunteer to serve in the armed forces.
Infact I think far too often people are not realizing how critical it is to social distanced and isolate. Let's be clear athletes with no underlying conditions are unlikely to die from covid19, but the more that don't isolate the more likely that they provide a safe pool for covid19 to infect and then pass on to those who are at risk of death. Same goes for young people. Isolating saves American (and all people) lives.
Your rant comes off as inconsiderate and self centered to me tbh. Of course you are entitled to your opinions and to express those opinions but you just come off poorly imo.
Oh for Pete’s sake. Then let’s eliminate all risk to people. Eliminate guns. Eliminate cars. Eliminate tobacco. Eliminate alcohol. How many annual deaths can be attributed to those? Eliminate any possible risk - after all, it may save one life. Let’s just all live in bubbles. Then we’ll all be safe.
Um thanks for agreeing with me? We do have laws the prohibit inappropriate use of guns, cars, alcohol and tobacco. If you want to treat covid19 like those, then you are basically saying that you want prison and fines for those who are recklessly spreading covid19.
For NFL players, given their athletic condition and their age group, the flu poses as great or greater threat to their health than COVID. So let’s cancel the NFL during flu season, right? Oh, wait...
Um no, that is simply false, the flu results in a lower mortality rate than covid19. You are entitled to your own opinions, you are not entitled to your own facts. additionally covid19 is more infectious than the flu.
Our activities that we can enjoin without any boundaries, bias or prejudices are important to our society. It allows us to transcend all those boundaries - race, religion, social and economic standing, and act as one. The owner of a $50M company can sit next to the guy who works at a fast food restaurant and they can enjoy each others’ company and share the bonding experience of a common cause in which they can immerse themselves. They can spend 3-5 hours together and set aside any and all other differences and be complete equals as they engage in their fandom. Tomorrow, one may go to board meetings and swing $500k deals while the other flips burgers, but for that 3-5 hours, they are legitimate peers. That’s not unimportant to us as a society. Especially a capitalist society that thrives on competition.
Actually no, an owner of a 50M company will not usually view football or other sports in the same way as someone making minimum wage. But lets ignore that for the moment... so what? They can also enjoy movies, playing games, or a wide variety of things besides live sports.
Everyone has a choice not to participate, but in a free society that choice should be ours, and not dictated to us by others.
And yet you want to dictate to football players that they play football.
The league can choose to move forward - with or without fans in the stands - and they have elected to move forward and provide the entertainment that is the NFL.
They have also moved forward with the option for players to opt out. Yet you seem to be fine with them moving forward with live games, but not with letting them sit out.
Gurley, as every other player in the league, has a choice - he can choose to play or not to play, and he has the ability and wherewithall to create the conditions where he can play - with virtually no risk to himself - while ensuring that his family remains safe and secure, both healthwise and financially. If Gurley chooses not to play because he thinks the risk is too high to himself or his family, the NFL will go on without him and he can find another vocation for himself to occupy his time and provide for his family. And I’ll support whatever choice he makes, because it is his choice.
There is currently no evidence that Gurley will be playing with virtually no risk to himself.
Infact that was the very point he made in his post about sitting out. The NFL currently does not have any plan/agreement in place to minimize the risk. He also fortunately will not need to find another vocation, he'll still be making 150k and then have the ability to play in the NFL next year.
But in today’s society, and most especially that we are being inundated with forces that seek to divide us in an effort to bolster their power, I would submit that something as simple and basic to our society as team sports leagues like the NFL, and college football, and high school football are sorely needed to help bond and heal us. Something as seemingly simple as NFL fandom is something we all need right now - and we need it free of political grandstanding and other tactics that only seek to separate us even in these activities. We are relentlessly inundated with diversive issues in our daily lives. We need this diversion and the associated togetherness.
Can’t we enjoy our commonality and our shared experiences that make us one also? Isn’t our greatest strength that we are all very different, yet we are all one? It can happen with or without Todd Gurley, and it can happen with minimal risk to those participating.
No what we need is for everyone to wear damn masks and social distance/isolate for a month or two so we can actually decrease the cases and not allow them in continue to increase.
Is that inconsiderate and self-centered to you?
Some is, some isn't, but there was a lot of false/hypocritical statements.
Think i addressed everything, but what does this thead have to do with Dynasty Leagues? Seems more appropriate for off topic forum.
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