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brett1081 t1_j7s6b07 wrote

Based on the current data it seems like every player is leaving the game with some form of CTE. It’s to the point that I have become a fan of the real football(played with feet) and really disconnected from the NFL. The commercials dragging the games out for 4 hours made it easier as well. Watching a EPL match where they play through the whole half and breaks only happen when they leave the field makes for a great viewing experience.

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HeLooks2Muuuch t1_j7sbu44 wrote

I’m with ya 100% - in the last year and a half I’ve completely changed my sports viewing interests. After 20+ years of intensely following the NFL as an adult, I didn’t even watch every game my team played this year and hardly watched any games involving other teams.

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James32015 t1_j7sfujv wrote

Same bro. All the injuries make it tough to watch. What team do you support?

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brett1081 t1_j7sgkvr wrote

I’ve got a buddy who is from Leicester so I started cheering for them. Then they won the league and things were great. Now we are in a relegation fight and I get to experience a different emotion. But Tete looks great!

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AlanFromRochester t1_j7skz37 wrote

Everton is my team in that football, relegation fights can be a little too interesting. ;)

While that's about the business model rather than the sport itself, it does make late season games for poorly performing teams still relevant instead of "we aren't making the playoffs so F it". While a draft is good for parity, tanking is perverse.

The other football could use a salary cap though, another parity measure, that avoids Man City type financial shenanigans.

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Raisin_Bomber t1_j7u8ph0 wrote

Who also just were dumped on over 100 league financial doping charges

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AlanFromRochester t1_j7sk7le wrote

I've developed a taste for the other football partly as still on during the NFL offseason, partly as an alternative to the physical abuse

The ordinary breaks between plays in gridiron don't bother me too much but sometimes it gets dragged out well beyond that.

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sktwocan t1_j7t4ebb wrote

Yeah anybody who has any issues with the NFL and how it’s run should simply stop watching and supporting it

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Jrdirtbike114 t1_j7sh7l5 wrote

I only pirate watch Chiefs games because I'm a lifelong fan and we now have Patrick Mahomes. If it weren't for him, I think I'd have quit watching a few years ago. The game has turned into a snooze fest/advertisement vehicle and the sport of football is clearly an afterthought, not to mention the ethics of it all. Ugh

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NOT____RICK t1_j7sz7jq wrote

Rugby is the same way and it’s so much more enjoyable to watch than the nfl.

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Trying_To_Adult_101 t1_j7twdud wrote

I was die hard and have not watched since they went white nationalist on my boy Kap.

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theneedfull t1_j7u296b wrote

I have no clue if there are studies on this, but I would think that CTE has to be a problem in soccer as well. Taking a header from a ball kicked like 80 yards HAS to do something to the brain. I'm guessing that it hasn't been studied as extensively as football, which really started talking about it recently.

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brett1081 t1_j7ukeeb wrote

I believe it is. But the CU-Boulder study in football players from s CTE in over 90%. It’s crazy. But your not wrong, soccer is not a perfect sport for minimizing head injuries. Very few appear to be.

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brett1081 t1_j7sfvso wrote

This is like the most Reddit reply I’ve seen all day. Congrats

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MrLoadin t1_j7sgsg2 wrote

They are referencing calcio storico, which is a renaissance era sport revived in the 1930s in Italy, and is still played in Florence.

*also prolly causes more brain damage than modern NFL, for less money.

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[deleted] t1_j7sjjjy wrote

Yeah love a good 1-0 soccer match. 90 minutes of passing the ball around

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Ironlungs_ t1_j7tbgaq wrote

as apposed to watching NFL for 3 hours with 12 minutes of actual sport being played.. the rest just ads and teams switching around

If you try call a sport boring because you don’t like it, maybe try breaking down (presumably) your own sport first.

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Wolpertinger77 t1_j7tdadz wrote

People balk at that 12 minute figure, but it’s true (actually just over 11 minutes of actual action per game). 3 hours of advertising and grown men circlejerking…it’s a strange ritual to obsess over.

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Ironlungs_ t1_j7tdmbu wrote

It truly is. But hey - I tried to have an actual conversation/discussion about liking different sports but he just downvoted because he doesn’t agree lmfao.

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razor_eddie t1_j7skc79 wrote

Which is an improvement from a 4 hour committee meeting, punctuated with violence.

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