Viewing a single comment thread. View all comments

Cap_Tight_Pants t1_ita2r6x wrote

I really don't understand the sudden uproar with him comparing football to war/the military. It's been that way forever.

Actual Brady quote: “I almost look at like a football season like you’re going away on deployment in the military, and it’s like, man, here I go again.”

Random examples:

"It's a war of attrition." "Battle in the trenches." "Throwing bombs" "Going to battle"

Many terms used in game are either adopted from the military or to it.

"Red zone" "End around" "Blitz"

"Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors." -Frank Gifford

84

comradenu t1_itmqjl5 wrote

Eh, his analogy was way more tone deaf than the other ones. Like, you go home to a 20 room mansion, or a world class hotel if you're on the road, when you're "deployed"... Give me a fucking break

1

Cap_Tight_Pants t1_itn4v8t wrote

Yeah. Like compararing football to a nuclear fucking holocaust is much less "tone-deaf".

Or people weren't so easily offended back then.

1