Draw Stewie from the Family Guy
As if Bill O’Reilly weren’t bad enough, this Kasich fool tries to stand-in for the Great Falafel and falls flat on his face. He talks over her as she attempts to reply; ignores the fact that Wolfe answers his questions intelligently and stammers the whole time. Wolfe eats this chump for lunch. The FCC should just pull FOX’s license.
Thanks to News Hounds for the link.
… the men on the field who generate those billions are real; they bleed; they break; their brains cloud. The nature of their injuries, particularly the mind-dimming concussion, has dominated the off-the-field news of late. Post-mortem exams of Andre Waters suicide at 44, Terry Long suicide at 45, Justin Strzelczyk car crash at 36, Mike Webster heart attack at 50 — showed staggering brain damage in men so young and affirmed that football is no longer a contact sport but real-life Mortal Kombat in cleats. Stunningly no one in the sport has stepped up to address the scope and depth of the injuries — not the teams, not the owners, and certainly not the one organization charged with looking after the athletes, the NFL Players Association NFLPA. In a game expected to take in $7 billion this year and that exceeds all others in causing bodily harm, fewer than 3 percent of the men who played in the league succeed in getting disability benefits. Worse, the players union turns away ailing vets despite a pension fund with $1 billion in assets.
You’d be hard pressed to find a more dedicated NFL fan than me. I love the game and I love my Bengals, though they are a mess this year. However, as an avid NFL Sirius listener, I’ve been following this story for about 6 months and it simply turns my stomach. I played Division II college football. Even there, I saw guys with no shot at the pros destroying their bodies with steroids and painkillers to get an edge on game day … partly for the glory and partly for the slim chance that an NFL scout might invite them to the combine.
Now, to know that the NFL and the NFLPA are basically hanging these guys out to dry, it turns my stomach. Gene Upshaw is a sell-out. Yes, these guys make millions, but they pay the price. The league and the NFLPA need to take care of these guys. Plain and simple.