Pick Injured?

[lurker]

Yelp! It's official.

Muffy says you gotta play nice.

[Fred Sanford]

You girls went soft while I was away. The guy came out aggressive, knocking our sport as dull and wrongfully named. He gets what he got!

Now that I know he's a UKian, I will agree to stop calling him a "south of the border" and start calling him a bloke. Fair enough?

[Fred Sanford]

I have to laugh. He has a broken thumb, and he's done for the year? How lame.

OK girlfriends, just what is it about that disrespectful comment that makes Mr. Bloke deserving of kind treatment?

You guys should take up a REAL sport, where if you break something you just play on, not this namby-pamby "two tons of padding needed just to play a game of rugby"!

Get real! Everyone knows that 75% of UK rugby players are cross-dressers. And that handsy scrum thing, well, I think everyone can draw their own conclusion about what those cross-dressing blokes are doing with their hands all over each other like they're a bunch of drunk buddies doing a line dance.

[K C Muffin]

I didn't take it as "aggressive" and knocking our sport. The guy doesn't enjoy football! Is it a crime? Soccer puts every bit as much stress on the human body, but without pads. Who's the namby-pamby?

[Fred Sanford]

Originally Posted by K C Muffin

I didn't take it as "aggressive" and knocking our sport. The guy doesn't enjoy football! Is it a crime? Soccer puts every bit as much stress on the human body, but without pads. Who's the namby-pamby?

You're right, I'm sorry for calling it a crime. That was silly of me. Wait, I didn't call it a crime. If you think soccer is as physical as football, you're not paying attention. Didn't you see the big fuss made last week when Beckam got kicked, lightly, in his tummy? Oh my, that was brutal!!! Beckam wouldn't last 1 run up the middle in the NFL.

Look, KC, you're missing the point here. Pick is a good kid and a great QB. Breaking his hand may well have cost him a college football career/scholarship. That's a terrible thing to happen to a guy. Then some bloke comes along and makes fun of him, virtually calling him a sissy for not playing with a broken hand. That was in extremely poor taste and you're misguided for defending Mr. Bloke.

I don't give 2 hoots in hell if Blokey apologized for making a stupid comment about football. He only did that when he saw his words backfired. His apology should be to Pick.

[Zeb]

Ok I was hasty in my post. I intentionally never said illegal. I could care less what you think about american football. I got the impression you were basically calling the kid a wuss. I wouldn't know him if we bumped into each other, but I would never stand for anyone calling a student athlete a wuss in any case.

Sorry if I mis-read your post. Lets move on.

and If I didn't - well lets move on.

[Fred Sanford]

My point exactly, Zeb. In spite of what Monster thinks of our football as a sport, you don't get a scholarship from a D-1 school by being a sissy. Like you, I don't know Pick from adams, but he had to put in a lot of hard work to get where he got.

[Made in the USA]

I've known Kale and his Dad ever since he was a wet dream. He is a good, hard working, and intelligent kid. And for his Dad, I would rather have him for a Doctor than any of the MD's around Dodge. The AP is calling Kale the best QB prospect to come out of Kansas in the last 20-30 years. That puts him in with some good company!!

[Fred Sanford]

Originally Posted by Made in the USA

I've known Kale and his Dad ever since he was a wet dream. He is a good, hard working, and intelligent kid. And for his Dad, I would rather have him for a Doctor than any of the MD's around Dodge. The AP is calling Kale the best QB prospect to come out of Kansas in the last 20-30 years. That puts him in with some good company!!

Yeah, and the fact that Arkansaw doesn't want him further risking his hand is testament to his value, not a statement about him being a wuss.

[Monster]

Originally Posted by Fred Sanford

Breaking his hand may well have cost him a college football career/scholarship.

I'll bite one more time, then I'm going to let this go. I thought it was his thumb that Pick broke (look at posts 1 and 3 at the start of this thread), not his whole hand?

If you go back and look at my original post you will notice a link to a news article showing that 'soccer' England international Steven Gerrard was going to play with a broken toe, because the match he was in was so important. Given this, it was not infeasible that for such an important televised/scouts there match that Pick could have played with a broken thumb.

If indeed it IS his whole hand that is broken, then of course he wouldn't be able to play, no more than Steven Gerrard could play 'soccer' with a broken whole foot, no matter how many painkilling injections he has had!

Let's just agree that both sports are physical, and any kind of physicality opens you up to potential injury. A broken hand/foot is just as important, just as painful, just as inconvenient no matter how it is sustained.

Let's also agree that because we live in the land of the free and the home of the brave that I can like 'Soccer' more than 'American Football' and you can like 'Football' more than 'Soccer'.

'Nuff said.