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In my opinion the NFL has become a sport in which anyone can basically play, even if they are completely frail. Look no further than Patrick Mahomes winning Super Bowl MVP without much of an ankle. See the NFL is just too easy and is not a real a gladiator sport like UFC, Hockey, or even Rugby. You see in those sports they either don't wear any padding, they are fighting each other, or they play 82 games a season. In the NFL fighting is not allowed, they wear pads, and only play 17 games a season. Not a real tough sport at all. In my opinion the NFL should do one of three things if not all. 1. Allow fighting 2. Ban helmets and padding 3. Play 82 games in a season. That way the NFL can get the true glory of being a worldly sport, and Europeans, Asians, and Canadians won't laugh at us anymore for being wimps.
In my opinion the NFL has become a sport in which anyone can basically play, even if they are completely frail. Look no further than Patrick Mahomes winning Super Bowl MVP without much of an ankle. See the NFL is just too easy and is not a real a gladiator sport like UFC, Hockey, or even Rugby. You see in those sports they either don't wear any padding, they are fighting each other, or they play 82 games a season. In the NFL fighting is not allowed, they wear pads, and only play 17 games a season. Not a real tough sport at all. In my opinion the NFL should do one of three things if not all. 1. Allow fighting 2. Ban helmets and padding 3. Play 82 games in a season. That way the NFL can get the true glory of being a worldly sport, and Europeans, Asians, and Canadians won't laugh at us anymore for being wimps.
You obviously have never played football at any level above Pop Warner.
I especially liked the observation about how the NFL, because players use helmets and pads, is not a real gladiator sport such as hockey, where players use helmets and pads.
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In my opinion the NFL has become a sport in which anyone can basically play, even if they are completely frail. Look no further than Patrick Mahomes winning Super Bowl MVP without much of an ankle. See the NFL is just too easy and is not a real a gladiator sport like UFC, Hockey, or even Rugby. You see in those sports they either don't wear any padding, they are fighting each other, or they play 82 games a season. In the NFL fighting is not allowed, they wear pads, and only play 17 games a season. Not a real tough sport at all. In my opinion the NFL should do one of three things if not all. 1. Allow fighting 2. Ban helmets and padding 3. Play 82 games in a season. That way the NFL can get the true glory of being a worldly sport, and Europeans, Asians, and Canadians won't laugh at us anymore for being wimps.
UFC? Hockey? Rugby?
Let's be realistic, the onlyreal gladiator sport is one in which the losers are carted off to the morgue, anything else is playing gladiator.
I have never seen a "frail" gridiron tackle football player ever much less a frail NFL player. NFL players are hands down the biggest, toughest, and meanest gridiron football players out there. Sure some of them could be more fit than they are but that's another story, I wouldn't call them frail. Now the CFL up in Canada prefer smaller and leaner players but I wouldn't call their players frail either. Without helmets and pads, you basically go back to rugby union, upon which you cannot tackle as swift or hard as gridiron players do. And no rugby teams do not fight or play 82 games a season. That is just plain absurd. The O.P. either does not understand gridiron football or is simply trolling.
In my opinion the NFL has become a sport in which anyone can basically play, even if they are completely frail. Look no further than Patrick Mahomes winning Super Bowl MVP without much of an ankle. See the NFL is just too easy and is not a real a gladiator sport like UFC, Hockey, or even Rugby. You see in those sports they either don't wear any padding, they are fighting each other, or they play 82 games a season. In the NFL fighting is not allowed, they wear pads, and only play 17 games a season. Not a real tough sport at all. In my opinion the NFL should do one of three things if not all. 1. Allow fighting 2. Ban helmets and padding 3. Play 82 games in a season. That way the NFL can get the true glory of being a worldly sport, and Europeans, Asians, and Canadians won't laugh at us anymore for being wimps.
I agree. And stop using your hands. Its football for gods sake. Also why the oblong ball, just use a round ball. And why kick it over the post, make a box under the post 120 yards apart. I guess one guy using his hands right in front of the goalpost would be okay, but otherwise just feet. If you use your hand, it should be a foul or a penalty or something. And no need for pads. At even the slightest touch you should throw yourself to the ground writhing in pain, then get up and be completely fine 10 seconds after the foul is either called or rejected. Thats NFL football. Lets do it. the World has never seen something like this.
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