But think if the life skills one develops. If you don't make the NFL to earn your daily bread, at least you might be able to steal bread.
Thinking that you can go through life without using your hands and hitting things with your head will gave its own problems.
I am also astounded that the "football" yobs fight by hitting people with their heads. My god, that is why man invented *tools* (as any former lacrosse player will tell you :-)
>>>In his professional career he scored 2,544 points - which I believe is more than have been scored in the entire history of soccer ;-)
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>>How many points is counted each time some of those gladiators jumps head-first into the mudd by the end line?
>>9 points ? But then when they actually score, (pass it through 6 times bigger goal) they count it much less.
>>Go figure.
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>>I just never got it. Guy runs as if he just stollen loaf of brown bread, and now whole willage is after him.
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>Very good analogy. lol Only the bakers' boys have pulled him to the ground a few times, he's got up and tried to sweet-talk them a few times, then run away again.
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>>Then he nails it behind aut line. What is so interesting about that ??
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>>Real footbal (I mean played by foot) is artform comparing to that {vbg}
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