http://www.salon.com/2014/02/02/i_love_hate_football/
Glad to find I'm not the only one that feels this way

Rugby >

In for the rugby v football debate

Premier grade grand final tomortow, gg

Id probably like rugby.

Thing is id quit but I'm starting varsity quarterback and the coach is my math teacher lol

thats a bummer. if ur school is like mine teachers would report to the coach if u were late or did poorly on anything or acted out. like even if u were just 30seconds late. then the coach freak the fuck out.
but anyway i wouldnt quit. starting varsity qb is awesome...and looks frkin great esp if ur good
guy who started qb from my year got into a d1 school with a scholarship[not full-ride] even though his stats were barely above average and we didnt even get to states that year.
but w/e do what u want

Perhaps you like football. I just don't and there's so much pressure on me to like it.. Idk what to do I could move to my dads 2 hours away or say I have a missing disk in my back which I might actually have and not be able to play because of. My dad has that or missing something around his lower back.

I drove to my gpas from my moms I'm just sitting in his driveway super depressed dono what to do.

Never played football, never saw the allure to it, and I personally find it dumb.

For those that actually love it, so be it. But, if you don't want to do it, then don't. As you don't seem to like it, unless you think you will have some long term benefit out of it (pay for college or go pro), there is next to zero REAL reasons to continue with it.

On the simple side, it would be a waste of your time to continue doing it. On the more severe side, you could get injuries that bother you for the rest of your life.

I did/do track (throwing), and I have so many examples of multi-sport athletes that do football in the fall and track in the spring, and it fucked them up. They had the potential to get college scholarships for throwing, but did football because it is what their friends, coaches, parents, etc wanted, so they believed it was expected. One kid that specifically comes to mind is an acquaintance that was a very good javelin thrower - he was one of the top javelin throwers in the country his junior year of high school. He played football for the above reasons, then in the fall of his senior year (before track, of course) he ended up tearing his ACL from being hit wrong. Before the injury, he could have went pretty much anywhere to throw (full ride), but that injury dropped his abilities so he got much less than he should have and ended up at a mid-rate school with a partial scholarship. He ended up throwing further as a junior in high school than as a sophomore in college, lost motivation, dropped out of college, and is now trying to be a personal trainer. But, football makes you a man, right? lol

the real football a.k.a the premier league, starts today.

Good read, I agree with the article pretty much and I can relate to a lot of it.

My good friend broke his tibia (or fibula can't remember) very first game of our senior year, not from the opposing team but a teammate. The other teammate tore his MCL the next week in practice.

Then I played Semi-Pro football for a year and that's definitely more dangerous, coaches are less experienced in the sport, no real age limit and no drug tests (at least where I was playing).

It's a dangerous sport and people (should) know this before they sign up. Injuries happen in every sport though, regardless some more then others.

"What character and inner strength did I glean from it? I suffer from severe anxiety. I fear confrontation."

Suffer from severe anxiety from high school football? wot.



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This post was edited by Lancet_Jade on Aug 16 2014 05:12am

in on gay i play football thread

^kid is mad he got bullied by the Varsity Captain in High School