CyborgBee t1_itbc1yk wrote on October 22, 2022 at 9:53 AM

This is insane, but the US has a 100ft boner for its military despite the fucking awful things it repeatedly does, and thinks American Football is just a fun game despite the massive long term physical and mental damage it does to the players, so I guess I shouldn't be surprised. I am a proud Brady hater, but I'll defend him here: NFL players suffer heavily during the course of a season, so this analogy is fine, and anyone whining about how he's 'disrespecting the troops' should consider that disrespecting the troops is something you should do when said troops are off slaughtering the population of another country again.

sreyaNotfilc t1_itbfudu wrote on October 22, 2022 at 10:47 AM

Seriously, these (and other athletes / entertainers) are trained at a young age to hopefully be put into a fish bowl so that they can break down their bodies all the while being away from friends and family months at a time. But because its for our amusement and they make lots of money, folks assume that they don't suffer from anything.