Comments on: For the Good of the Team: Football Coaches & Conscience http://www.devangoldstein.com/342/football-coaches-conscience/ It's Devan Goldstein Fri, 18 Jun 2010 20:41:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Eric Kroczek http://www.devangoldstein.com/342/football-coaches-conscience/comment-page-1/#comment-4781 Eric Kroczek Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:37:53 +0000 http://www.devangoldstein.com/?p=342#comment-4781 Mmm, I remember reading Long Walk in high school--pretty good. Much more interesting than that other deathmatch-themed Richard Bachman/Stephen King novel, The Running Man, which was made into a terrible movie. Mmm, I remember reading Long Walk in high school–pretty good. Much more interesting than that other deathmatch-themed Richard Bachman/Stephen King novel, The Running Man, which was made into a terrible movie.

]]> By: devan http://www.devangoldstein.com/342/football-coaches-conscience/comment-page-1/#comment-4780 devan Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:05:32 +0000 http://www.devangoldstein.com/?p=342#comment-4780 Let me issue a blanket "Me, too." I get more and more uncomfortable with not just the most damaging hits, but with hits further and further below the "He's not getting up" threshold. As an aside, I would argue that your gladiator-style football league might be *more* humane, because the stakes would be more explicit. Maybe that's a bit of a reach. Incidentally, you might check out Steven King's <a href="http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=the+long+walk" rel="nofollow"><cite>The Long Walk</cite></a>, which Aubrey recommended to me some years ago and which takes up just these issues. You'll get through it in like two hours. Let me issue a blanket “Me, too.” I get more and more uncomfortable with not just the most damaging hits, but with hits further and further below the “He’s not getting up” threshold.

As an aside, I would argue that your gladiator-style football league might be *more* humane, because the stakes would be more explicit. Maybe that’s a bit of a reach.

Incidentally, you might check out Steven King’s The Long Walk, which Aubrey recommended to me some years ago and which takes up just these issues. You’ll get through it in like two hours.

]]> By: Eric Kroczek http://www.devangoldstein.com/342/football-coaches-conscience/comment-page-1/#comment-4779 Eric Kroczek Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:31:30 +0000 http://www.devangoldstein.com/?p=342#comment-4779 I was just reading this article yesterday when Cathy said "Oh, Devan just posted something about this on his blog." Although I have always said--if only in jest--that I wouldn't be satisfied with the violence level in football until dudes were being slaughtered ancient-Rome-style on the field to propitiate their corporate sponsors, I don't believe I will ever watch football (or any other combat sport) the same way again. That men continue to pursue the sport is an interesting example of the "it can never happen to me" syndrome, as in "I will never get cancer from smoking, even though all those other people have," etc. I was just reading this article yesterday when Cathy said “Oh, Devan just posted something about this on his blog.” Although I have always said–if only in jest–that I wouldn’t be satisfied with the violence level in football until dudes were being slaughtered ancient-Rome-style on the field to propitiate their corporate sponsors, I don’t believe I will ever watch football (or any other combat sport) the same way again. That men continue to pursue the sport is an interesting example of the “it can never happen to me” syndrome, as in “I will never get cancer from smoking, even though all those other people have,” etc.

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