Pre-Game Back To Football Party
As I was driving to Green Bay yesterday afternoon to watch the first game of the NFL football season I heard a public radio show that was a debate between two sport writings on the dangers of playing football. Both agree it was a dangerous sport causing a lot of physical disabilities, but one thought it was worth it while the other questioned that if endangering one’s safety for a sport could be justified.
I kept thinking that here I was driving to watch my gladiators, the Green Bay Packers, beat those from the New Orleans Saints. I also was thinking about my 6th grade grandson who plays quarterback on a team. Was football just like the Thursday night stock car races my dad used to take me to, where I was looking for a crash but felt guilty about it?
No matter what my thoughts were when the game started at Lambeau field I with 70, 000 plus people who were into it. It was a high scoring exciting game which our team, the Packers, won. Fortunately only one player seemed to get hurt and had to be helped off the field.
Driving home late at night, or early the next day, I did not think about the radio debate on the safety of football. I was happy we won and more concerned about driving safely than any football game.
The debate goes on in the back of my mind but I still will watch football. Being a spectator is quite different than being a participant. I am sure it was the same in the Roman coliseum but there those that struggled did not get paid and those watching probably did not have to pay. A gladiator show with money, is that what football has become. I do not know.
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