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Soccer is equally dangerous!


ive had 4 concussions in two years of playing soccer and its not even pro level! also heading the ball everyday can cause sub concussive impact on the head.. its forced me to retire permanently as the effects are devastating.. im about 70% recovered but it will take me months and maybe years to fully heal from the effects..

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Soccer is not equally as dangerous. Soccer players aren't behemoths trying to hit each other at high speeds. All I see while watching soccer is a guy acting injured because someone touched him. Flopping is a joke and furthers the evidence that soccer is a ridiculous sport that is a chore to watch.

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That's why it's the most watched sport in the world then! I don't understand how anyone can watch American Football with the amount of stoppages and adverts, as dull as baseball.

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That's why it's the most watched sport in the world then! I don't understand how anyone can watch American Football with the amount of stoppages and adverts, as dull as baseball.

I've never understood how people could watch Cricket!

Or, to tell the truth, I don't get the appeal of Indy car racing. My dad used to love it. He could sit and watch cars go in circles for hours. Me, not so much, which really disappointed him.

But to each their own...

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+1

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Cricket, though invented by the British, is still a gentleman's game and it's about finesse more than power. There are very few chances of danger but when they happen, it usually results in death, not injury. The game is interesting because there are many many many more permutations and combinations of factors and events, that build up tension and excitement than Baseball, Football or American Football. The penultimate moments of some matches are the best possible sporting moments at times, better than possible in any other game. Recently, in the short-format (T20) World Cup, a lower-grade (as in not the best batsman in the WI team at the time) West Indian batter (batsman) was facing a higher-tier (as in the top bowler in the English team) English bowler (pitcher). WI needed 22 runs in the last six balls (deliveries/pitches). The maximum that can be scored per ball is 6 runs (equivalent of a baseball home run). It is highly improbable to get that score, to score 3-4 sixes and 1-2 fours (boundaries, which are homeruns that hug the ground and go over the boundary line). England was definitely winning before that last over. The WI batsman hit 4 sixes (4 consecutive homeruns) in the first 4 balls. They had 2 balls to spare and they won. After each six, the English bowler was getting exponentially worried. By the end of the 4th ball, he was dead inside. The hashtag/term #6666 will live forever.

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Man, I never thought someone could make Cricket sound even moore boring.

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LMAO, exactly.

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Those aren't stoppages. They're called plays. That's how the sport works. It involves strategy.

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Ye soccer also, but there arent a lot fo stoppages unless fouls..
But hey everyone his thing.. You guys just dont realise American football isnt populair outside America AT ALL.. Soccer is a global thing, stop denying it guys.

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I don't deny it's a globally popular sport. I'm not sure why it's always soccer vs. American Football like you can't just enjoy both. The NFL does pretty well when they travel to London so I wouldn't say it's not popular at all. There's a market for it in certain countries.

Only thing I find annoying is that here in America the media takes issue with the head injuries, but only because it's the #1 sport here. It's just fodder, our media here in America are just complete hypocrites, and social justice warriors.

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Social justice warriors? Are you kidding me? The media doesn't care about social justice.. they only sale what sales. They are a business. They talk about murder and rape every day, making people believe that it's unsafe to walk outside of your house, which is entirely untrue in most places. The news has never cared about justice, or social justice.

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Good point. They make more money off of emotions and stirring the pot than reporting facts.

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Deny what?...Anyone could make a make shift soccer ball or hackysack, learn a few tricks with their feet only, and then build some cardio. Now find me a world athlete who could run, juke, throw, tackle, catch, or man handle people like NFL athletes. That's why American football is not as popular outside of the U.S. because your athletes cannot do what ours can do. It's called denial pal!

At least we know we suck at soccer. All of our first line athletic kids play football, baseball, basketball, martial arts, or track first. Our bottom of the barrel males athletes play soccer last.

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Soccer's popularity may have something to do with the fact that most of the world lives in poverty and you don't need anything beyond a ball to play soccer. Golf would be at the other extreme. American football at least needs a decent patch of grass to play on.

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Soccer is, by far, the most popular sport here in germany, and I think the same is true for england and many other eurpean countries that are definately not "poor"!

In the end, though, the sport itself is irrelevant. People like what they are used to, it's actually that simple. At least half of the appeal is just doing something with your friends, emphasize on "something". It's also the good old "us vs them" when you pick your team and cheer for them. Nothing more than tribal instincts that are still strong in our psyche.

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As a person who doesn't like soccer, and enjoys AF, I still have to say you are misguided.

It is easy to get a soccer ball and practice, learn tricks. You are right.
It is also easy to get a football, and learn the basics and a few tricks too.

It is very hard to play soccer at an elite level. If you think American athletes are God's gift to sports, why hasn't the US won much more Gold medals in World Soccer? I mean, according to you, we are ultimately more talented, and soccer is easy, right?

AF is different. Totally different skill sets. Both needs large amount of dedication, practice, hard work each and every day.

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I run my own health and wellness business and have several sports medicine, personal trainers, and youth sports associates all over the nation. I've heard the same story over and over from sea to shining sea about how U.S. male boys pick soccer as a last resort if the other sports they choose first don't work out. So if you want to be real, fishman61, our soccer players cannot win gold because all of our best athletes are in other sports, not soccer. Go ahead and ask a few youth soccer coaches (not biased soccer Moms) what other sports their players are good at. Cus' I already did, and there are a very rare few who are good at other sports because most of them lacked the athletic ability, or they warmed the benches. So their parents enrolled them in soccer where they had opportunities to play rather than sitting on the bench. So, go ahead and seriously name 'almost any other Olympic sport' and its pretty easy to name an American who dominates or comes close on the world stage. Now go ahead and name an elite American soccer player who dominates on the world stage.

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Alex Morgan? That was an easy one off the top of my head.

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Alex Morgan? Sure there are quite a bit of beautiful and very talented female soccer players, but this conversation between you and I was about male athletes. I asked you to name me (without Googling) three elite American soccer players (aside from the obvious Landon Donovan or Tim Howard) who can compete on the world's stage.

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Wait a minute, I agree that our best don't choose soccer, but to challenge him to name three elite players, then disqualify two is disingenuous, at best.

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That would only be true on the grounds that your entire "soccer" playfield has for the most part be lower than most of the countries that play and win at a high competitive level.

The U.S. is getting better as of late. The last 10 or 20 years have been good for any related "soccer" industry.

Imagine the U.S. "athletes" trying to get into sports. First they would try to get into the most popular sports in the U.S. That would be American "Football", Baseball, Basketball, etc. The reason would be that these are the sports that provide really good career oportunities (retire at 30s or 40s and be set for life).

Most big sponsors would back up players in these sports, but 20 years ago how much money was in "soccer"? The World Cup in 94 did help a bit and paved the way for better pay of soccer players. It also helped rise interest of international players to participate in an U.S. league.

As long as the U.S. soccer league and national team dont have a similar budget for the pay of their players as the most popular sports (American "football" etc), you wont see the best "athletes" interested in it as their first option.

I am sure it is quite easy to get into the United States Sumo Federation, compared to joining the Japanese one.

Remember those first MMA championships? A lot of the fighters were crap, not because "athletes" go for boxing and MMA fighters are just crappy "athletes". It is mainly because it was a starting sport with less money than other sports (even other similar sports).

So yeah, you might feel it is easy to get into "soccer", but that is mainly because it is not as big and advanced as in most of the rest of the world.

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US Women's team has won four out of five Olympics since it's inception in 1996, including 1996 (Atlanta), 2004 (Athens), 2008 (Beijing), 2012 (London). They were the runners up to Norway in 2000 (Sydney). Thus, the US Women's team has won the last three Olympic gold medals and are the current champions.

They have also won three out seven World Cups since it's inception in 19991, including 1991, 1999, and 2015, and were runnners up in 2011, and third place three times, including in 1995, lost to eventual champion (Norway) in semis, 2003, lost to eventual champions (Germany) in semis, and 2007, where they lost to eventual runners up (Brazil) in the semis.

So they are also the most winning team in the World Cup, since they have won three times and are the current champions. Germany, the second most winning team has won twice, and were runners up once.

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As another poster stated, our top line athletes play football, baseball, basketball and hockey, probably even run track, before playing soccer. If the best athletes in the country played soccer, the US would be one of the top squads in the world, if not thee top.

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What a fcking retarded meat head response. Your understanding of what makes a soccer play good v bad is laughable... How about being able to aim kicks with 100% precision, knowing exactly how much force to do so with, tacking only with your feet rather than rampaging head first into the opponent, and then taking the ball of them only with there feet and keeping control of it... Then theres the whole getting it into a much smaller goal with ultimate precision..
American Football is laughably a game of skill compared. Throwing accurately and kicking accurately (a ball only on the ground, drop kicking in american football tho not easy isn't close to as hard) - theres no comparison.. Kicking is 10x harder to do well at a professional level.. Anyone can throw a ball reasonably straight, its how far and the precision that makes american footballers talented, but its far from as hard to do as always kicking accurately throughout an entire match.

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Don't forget that soccer players are head and shoulders above American football players at taking dives.

So it doesn't take any kind of skill to take a an elite athlete to the ground? Or keep a 6'6" 275 lb. rampaging defensive lineman at bay? Or to throw accurately on the run while said behemoth is chasing you down? Or keeping up with a wide out with world class speed and keeping him from making a reception? That's not taking into account the tremendous amount of teamwork that goes into making a play succeed. And, it takes ten times the guts to play American football than it does to play a sport in which all you need is a pair of shoes, a t-shirt and a pair of shorts to play. Soccer is a good game to watch, if you know the game, and fun to play, but you've obviously never played American football if you think there is no skill involved.

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any kind of skill to take a an elite athlete to the ground? Or keep a 6'6" 275 lb. rampaging defensive lineman at bay? Or to throw accurately on the run while said behemoth is chasing you down? Or keeping up with a wide out with world class speed and keeping him from making a reception?


I think you could easily argue there isn't very much skill required for 3 of those. Granted, throwing while being chased requires skill, but the others just need athleticism rather than ability.

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Great players in the NFL have played football without a lot of youth playing. Walter Peyton for one. A soccer player is not going to make it if he or she hasnt played it most of their life. Skill required is much greater in soccer since so much of the sport can NOT be covered up by athleticism and aggressiveness like in football. I know there have been players that crossed over from being a track star to play in the NFL like Renaldo Nedimiah. Brock Lessnar was a NCAA heavy weight wrestling champion that tried out for the NFL and stuck around until the final cut. No athlete that hasnt played soccer has a chance in his or her adult life to pick it up and make a team. Wont happen.

Soccer is a sport like wrestling, tennis, golf, etc that requires a lot of practice to perfect technique. An athlete that has comparative power, size and aggressiveness has a chance in football without prior experience playing....that type of athlete has no chance to make top level wrestling, tennis, golf or soccer. I am NOT saying football does not require technique, just saying that power, size, speed and aggressiveness can cover for poor technique in some cases.

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I bet you cant.

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The U.S. has the most elite athletes on the planet, bar none. You would need to add all the Olympic medals from the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th place countries to finally surpass the number of medals the U.S. has. As far as soccer being the most watched sport, please find me athletes from these other countries with the size, speed, strength, and agility as NFL athletes. And if you want to bring up rugby players, one of the most dominant Australian rugby players (Jarryd Hayne) barely made it on the San Francisco 49ers roster and was a 3rd or 4th stringer.

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And yet, despite the superiority of the athletes, the national side consistently underperforms in the worlds most popular sport.

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It's perfectly fine to have your own culturally biased preferences, just acknowledge them as such.
You guys don't like football so you don't play it. That's fine. But please do not start making up BS about how it's not athletically demanding enough or it's not an adults/mans game.
American football is simply very dull to many people (both American and non - American) which is why they don't have time for it.
Can you see how what they think about American football is similar to what you think about football?

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Actually no, because I'm pretty sure part of the bias against American football comes from the world thinking that hating Americans and anything American is the hip and cool and poppin' fresh thing to do. Besides, one of the big reasons soccer is so popular is because it's the only sport most third world people can afford. You can outfit an entire soccer team for the same price you can dress one player in hockey or football gear.

Also, I can't respect a sport where a valid and widely used strategy is to fake an injury every few minutes to draw penalties and their jerseys are so gussied up with corporate logos that they make nascar vehicles look pristine. There's no integrity in soccer, it's the most corrupt sport on the planet.

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Here's a news flash for you - there is corruption in every sport where there is a great deal of money involved (sometimes not even that much money). The current scandal in football has drawn so much attention because it is simply the most popular sport in the world with the biggest total bankroll. If there was a similar event in american football there would be barely one eighth as big a scandal.

I'm sure you could go on at some length as to why american football isn't very popular globally and I'm equally sure a lot of those reasons could be somehow linked to the rather tiresome 'USA No. 1, you don't like that so you don't like us!' routine. I find it bewildering that so many citizens of a world super power choose to display a mentality of victimhood, but...whatever.

Have you ever considered that perhaps it's because a lot of the world already play a similar game called Rugby? And before you go off, yes, I realise there are a lot of differences between the two sports, but they are, superficially at least, quite similar.

Like I said before, you don't want to like football? Fine, it won't miss you. There is still the fact that your national side fails at the worlds most popular sport, and that is indisputable.

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There is still the fact that your national side fails at the worlds most popular sport, and that is indisputable.

Soccer isn't part of our culture past the age of 10. Our best athletes are playing football, basketball, baseball, and hockey. If those athletes had a desire to play soccer, they'd be just as good at it as any other country's best athletes are.

You're thinking it's something we should be ashamed of but the truth is, we don't give a *beep* about the world's most popular sport. The world can have it, we're different. Go blow your vuvuzela.

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LOL......and as anyone knows...the toughest part of soccer is telling your family you're gay.

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No, you are not different. You are the same as every bad loser on the planet - making excuses for your failures.

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Nice deflection there. I love your mind reading capabilities for his reasoning, and your advanced knowledge of his sports failures.

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It's perfectly fine to have your own culturally biased preferences, just acknowledge them as such.
You guys don't like football so you don't play it.


If you had just read the whole thread you might not have gotten lost within its contents. I have pointed out facts. Lupin (along with others) has gotten excited about a perceived attack on their nationality and responded emotionally.

I do find it amusing how you dogpile on in an attempt to help each other. Are you guys The Avengers or something? Although, judging by your performance, The Three Stooges would be more accurate.

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If you had just read the whole thread you might not have gotten lost within its contents. I have pointed out facts. Lupin (along with others) has gotten excited about a perceived attack on their nationality and responded emotionally.

You will have to forgive me for not re-reading the entire thread (I have in the past), and just clicking last post, and then reading the two post above it to follow what it is replying to. And here is what he said:

Soccer isn't part of our culture past the age of 10. Our best athletes are playing football, basketball, baseball, and hockey. If those athletes had a desire to play soccer, they'd be just as good at it as any other country's best athletes are.

You're thinking it's something we should be ashamed of but the truth is, we don't give a *beep* about the world's most popular sport. The world can have it, we're different. Go blow your vuvuzela.


And this is what you said, in response:

No, you are not different. You are the same as every bad loser on the planet - making excuses for your failures.

I cannot help but notice, that he was mentioning his point of view of soccer, and the athletes in America. He even gave up arguing anything else really. He summed it all up to say, he, and we as a whole don't really care that much. I am inclined to think by the numbers he is right. But it doesn't matter.

Because your post in response to his post doesn't address anything he mentions. It just says something as bland as "they are two different things", and expects us to agree with you, without really answering anything.


I do find it amusing how you dogpile on in an attempt to help each other. Are you guys The Avengers or something? Although, judging by your performance, The Three Stooges would be more accurate.

Are you for real right now? This can't be some weak trolling I don't think. If you didn't want to get involved in a multiple person discussion, you should have resorted to PMing him instead. Instead of, you know, a public internet board? I have had multiple people disagree with me all at once on IMDb boards. And I like it that way.

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Sorry about the late reply - got caught up in real life there.

But, anyway, can you explain how

Soccer isn't part of our culture past the age of 10.
is any different to
It's perfectly fine to have your own culturally biased preferences...
I believe I implied that Americans generally don't like football, so I'm not really sure what you're arguing. I'm also unsure what points Lupin is making that I need to address. Can you elaborate?

I will say this line of his
If those athletes had a desire to play soccer, they'd be just as good at it as any other country's best athletes are.
is almost complete rubbish. It took France, over a decade of sustained investment in their national side, a sporting humiliation and a cultural bias that has existed for centuries to be able to dominate the game internationally. To think all it takes is a 'desire to play' from US athletes to be able to match the best in the world is laughable at best, wilfully naive and arrogant at worst.

As for your statement
Are you for real right now? This can't be some weak trolling I don't think. ...etc
Like I said
I find it amusing
I cant believe you would have missed that. You included it in the quote..

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You came to this forum for no purpose other than to jerk off to soccer, suck on your vuvuzela, and whine about football. You've got a comically bad inferiority complex and you are so desperate to prove your country's worth that you will use something as trivial as a game to elevate it above others.

So I repeat, go suck on your vuvuzela, you eurotrash peasant.

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Wow - the mere presentation of some facts causes you to blow up like this? You should maybe relax a little, stop taking the internet so seriously? I have shown no inferiority complex for the simple reason that I don't have one. I prefer dealing in facts.

I have no desire to demonstrate/denigrate a nations worth, merely to point out aforementioned facts. I take no pride in where I live, beyond what I have contributed to it. Why be proud of something you had no hand in (eg. where you were born)? Follow that road too far and you end up not being able to accept facts written on internet message boards by strangers.

Quite why you get so worked up about the fact that the United States is bad at the worlds most popular sport remains a mystery.

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"eurotrash peasant".

Hows the debt looking right now? Has the shadow of the Chinese bailiff fallen upon your home country yet or is he slowly drumming his fingers on the table and asking when your government is up to paying? When the hammer finally drops it will be your kids who are the peasants and the Chinese their masters.
So much bitterness, like a thread on Nascar v F1 from the usenet in 1992 that went on forever.

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👍 Haha love it! I'm an American and I let out a huge belly-laugh when I read your post!

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Wow, Lupin. You're a complete asshat.
Stop posting. Please, just...stop.

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I'm pretty sure part of the bias against American football comes from the world thinking that hating Americans and anything American is the hip and cool and poppin' fresh thing to do.


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Your persecution complex is showing. Football is not that important.

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Its american politics that make the world think all americans are stupid, and they are proving those people right with voting for trump right now.

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Are you sure? India and China dwarf the US population... They have more honor students than we have students in case you didn't know. If were to start practicing as much, and as often in the sports like Soccer as the rest of the world, that population surplus would be tremendous. But they haven't as of yet.

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People used to think East German athlets were the highest users of performance enhansing drugs, until they started looking at US athlets. These "athlets" see it as normal to use these drugs as they see the sport as their income and hence they have the right to use whatever they want, and do.

I think Lance Armstrong very clearly show the mentality of many US athlets that NEED to win at any cost as many of them, come from very poor backgrounds and see sport as their only way out of poverty.

There is actually a reason why so many are fat/big in US. Nowhere else does the meat industry uses so much drugs to make the animals grow faster (maybe Belgium and actuially those animals there are a good reminder). All those drugs end up in your bodies and since many in US don't exercise, those drugs make may people in US abnormaly fat. The ones that do exercise end up being very big and with a lot of muscle. Drug usege is very wide spread in all US sports, hence all the "elite athlets" in US.

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both sports are fun to watch

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Baseball is not dull. Unless you just thrive at people deliberately crashing into each other. I love both football and baseball, but they are very different sports. I grew up listening to baseball on the radio!!

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You obviously don't know the game if you think baseball is dull. That you have to badmouth another sport to try and build UP YOURS is quite telling.

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And soccer players aren't decked out in padding and helmets. The rest of the world play American Football without the padding and helmets only they call it Rugby.

'Well I've got two words for you - STFU'

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And soccer players aren't decked out in padding and helmets. The rest of the world play American Football without the padding and helmets only they call it Rugby.

'Well I've got two words for you - STFU'

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Your post just reinforces the fact that you're a moron and you should seriously reconsider sharing your bone-headed opinions with anyone.

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Nothing is more boring than a sport where a guy runs for a few seconds with an oval object until he's knocked down and then they all just stand around until play resumes.

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While I agree with this, baseball is probably the most boring.
A NO HITTER GAME?
THAT'S exciting?
No one moves at all.

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I would rather watch a Chia pet grow or paint dry than watch a soccer match. Watching soccer is like watching people play PONG in Atari. There's nothing more boring than leaving a scoreless, or one to nothing soccer game. Is that why everyone goes crazy after downing pint after pint of beer when someone scores a goal? Because some 'effin action finally took place in this useless marathon. It's embarrassing watching a game you get scolded for if you use your God given hands or get a foul for touching other players.

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You're apparently not bright enough to realize that there's plenty of action taking place that leads up to goals.

Did you take a few too many hits to the head and get a 'concussion' playing rugby with pads aka American football?

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As a person who doesn't like soccer, I can say - the action that takes place in between goals is mostly boring to me. The goals themselves are somewhat boring to me...


One thing that cannot be argued here is this: There is MUCH more action in American Football. More stuff is happening, on each play there are a number of schemes, routes and plans going on by each player.

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One thing that cannot be argued here is this: There is MUCH more action in American Football. More stuff is happening, on each play there are a number of schemes, routes and plans going on by each player.


It's actually quite easy to argue there is LESS action in gridiron. Those 'schemes, routes and plans going on by each player' take place in both games, just with less fluidity in American football due to its stop start nature.

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Ight I challenge you to record yourself watching people play PONG for 3 hours or watch an entire 500 lap NASCAR race without falling asleep and posting it on YouTube. If you want to argue, I am sure there is a lot of fans who will argue that there is a lot of skill and action taking place in those 2 things (well...mostly the NASCAR race...no-no-no...only the NASCAR race). If you do that, I'll also do the same and at least I'm bright enough to admit that I'll fall asleep watching ANY soccer match in 20 minutes or less.

Why is soccer the only sport that comes to mind that counts up rather than down. Also, what the hell is 'nil'. Why can't it be zero, nada, nothing, or being shutout like every other sport? You want to talk about action CapitanJusticia, what is the percentage of soccer matches that end in a stupid nil-nil score? You call that exciting?😴

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as compared to american football? where they only actually play for 13 minutes in an entire game and stand around the rest of the time?

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Made my day lol! Good one.

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Not sure why football fans have to attack soccer, I guess they feel threatened and need to tear something down or bully others to thinking like they do. I dont hear soccer fans making fun of football of all the down time or how players often comes out after one play to rest, or all the lineman with the guts hanging over their pants or that refs play a major role in their reviews or how they have to have cheerleaders at games to make it more exciting and half time show and how everyone talks just as much about super bowl commercials as they do the game because the game is so often one sided boring.

Its funny how the NFL is hiring lobbyists and funding concussion research. When oil corporations hire lobbyists and fund global warming research everyone screams foul. I find it bizarre that until recently the NFL enjoyed a government tax exemptions....I guess they are a church or something. They had to give that up and pop the government nipple out of thier mouths to escape some of the government questions.

Love the reference to real games being on Xbox..... probably the only exercise you get is when larping

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Soooooo let's think about this.. One game takes on average 180 minutes to play 60 minutes of actual play time and the other takes 100 minutes to play 90 minutes of actual play time.. I think we all know which is the boring game.

'Well I've got two words for you - STFU'

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Soooooo let's think about this.. One game takes on average 180 minutes to play 60 minutes of actual play time and the other takes 100 minutes to play 90 minutes of actual play time.. I think we all know which is the boring game.
I'm not going to get into the argument of which sport is boring, but the idea that football/soccer has 90 minutes of actual playing time is a bit of a stretch. I've been watching UEFA Euro 2016, and about 1/2 minute runs off before the ball is put in play on each goal kick and about a minute after each goal, and these are not made up at the end of the half. (Similarly, time runs off before corner kicks, throw-ins, etc.) There is really under an hour of playing time, on average, according to one study. http://www.nationalsarmrace.com/?p=475
On the other hand, American football doesn't have anywhere near an hour of actual playing time, as the clock often runs in between plays, and the overall point about soccer having the most playing time per hour of any sport stands.

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Ignore the naysayers on here. I believe you. My coworker had a son in high school competitive soccer. He would sit at lunch and talk about how his son had 3 concussions in 2 years. He was so casual about it as if he were talking about a trip the mall. I was shocked by his attitude.

Concussions have to be taken seriously!!! I had one really bad one as a child and suffered with debilitating migraines for years as a result. Thank God for the healing power of Jesus bringing me out of that.

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I just looked up some people-per-year-killed-doing certain sports charts. Soccer is triple the fatalities. on a per capita basis, almost double. Stupid people always start sentences with "you're wrong because it looks to me like..." lol, happy to say somebody is wrong, yet have no actual facts or experience to back it up. welcome to imdb.

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I think the world disagrees with you.... But then again that is just the opinion of the rest of world....

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Just compare the deaths and serious injuries in soccer, then compare it to American football...and you'll see that soccer is NOT more dangerous.

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The point of this movie was not about concussions themselves, but how the NFL tried to cover up the dangers of it all. CTE exists. Many past players were unaware of this disease.

Now if one still wishes to play football knowing all of the dangers, then they now take all of the responsibilities.

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Of course the world may disagree with us. For God's sake the U.S. is the home of people who rebel against the world and their BS views. We are the birthplace of rebels like George Washington, Martin Luther King, Jr., and rock n roll.

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Well I never played Soccer, but I believe you. Also, haven't their been several instances over the last ten years of Soccer players dropping dead of heart attacks on the field? Not just heart problems, but a rash of other untimely deaths in Soccer. NFL doesn't compare to this.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_association_footballers_who_died_while_playing

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Even if that is true, does it matter? Soccer being dangerous doesn't make football any safer or less corrupt in how it treats its employees.

I find Oscar Bait infinitely more interesting than ticket bait

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Have you been paying attention to Soccer lately? It's the most corrupt sport on Earth. Where's the Will Smith movie about soccer corruption?

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Again, that has nothing to do with the NFL. What is so important about protecting football they you feel the need to insist no movie can be made about its corruption until a similar movie is made about every other sport?

Also... do you seriously think nobody is going to make a movie about the evils of FIFA? Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are already on it:

http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2015/06/ben-affleck-and-matt-damon-are-making-a-movie-about-the-fifa-scandal

That story broke about five months ago. Omalu's story started several years ago. It makes perfect sense that a movie like "Concussion" would be released first.


I find Oscar Bait infinitely more interesting than ticket bait

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I'm not against the movie being released. I just feel like NFL gets alot of flak mainly because it's the most popular sport, and for no other real reason that isn't equivalent to the dangers of anything else like car travel, rock climbing, riding horses etc. So, there are many people who take no interest in the sport who'd like to see it go away, because they're the type of people... (I hate to use the word liberal here) Liberals in general like to tell people what they can and can't do with their own bodies. Yes, I get alot of entertainment out of this sport and it is gladiatorial in nature, but you'd have to be a complete moron to not understand the level of risk in this day & age.

I will be interested in that FIFA movie though, I didn't know about that.

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Hands, as I stated before, this movie is not necessarily about the concussion factor, and how it relates to other sports, but how the NFL tried to cover this all up! That is indeed a fact, and a legit argument to be angry at the league. For them, it became a dollar issue rather than a people issue.

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Most sports are as dangerous. I've had 6 KOs in 5 years of playing rugby league. But it's not the sport's fault, it's mine for continuing to play. Which I do because I love it.

The giant hypocrisy is all the condemnation of the football codes (in my sport they recently outlawed shoulder charging simply because it hits too hard) yet Ronda Rousey is the hero of champions and an inspiration to women everywhere for knocking someone out in 30 seconds.

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It may be but you have to understand, this movie is propaganda. The goal is to take down the culture of the US. A lot of liberals despise the US culture and football (and baseball) are a huge part of our culture. Soccer, on the other hand, is apart of the cultures that they like better (europe, south america, etc.) So you won't expect anyone to make a movie about how soccer is dangerous because it doesn't fit their agenda.

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A lot of liberals despise the US culture and football (and baseball) are a huge part of our culture.


Talk about an utterly ridiculous generalization!

dkast85, you are missing the point about the movie. It is not how dangerous playing football or any other sport can be. It is how a the NFL tried to cover this all up! It was not the burglary that brought down a presidency. It was the cover up. NFL is guilty of that as well. That is indeed a fact and I have yet to hear anyone who is criticizing this movie (without having seen it!) condemn what the NFL did. dkast85, are you actually condoning the actions of Roger Goodell!?

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If you don't learn how to properly head the ball you will have problems. On and off the pitch. It is all about building the necessary neck muscle. Teenage girls having weaker neck muscles can lead to concussions due to headers.

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