The NFL now has a 'Dept. of Social Responsibility'

[MACMan]

The NFL has come under intense fire in the last week, with some even raising the question of how much the league really cares about women. Well, today the NFL announced the formation of an all-female "social responsibility" team to look into issues like domestic violence

Oh, my!! An 'all-female' team, no less. 

http://www.mediaite.com/online/all-female-group-will-run-new-nfl-social-responsibility-team/

[quiller]

...Followed by classes in Meaningful Apologies for Roughness, and Abject Groveling for being men. Lace curtains in the locker room and pink towels for allllllll should really help as well!

[walkstall]

[Dori]

aaagh 

They train these guys to be lethal weapons and then put women in charge of their behavior?

What's next?  Put them in the middle of a firefight?  Oh wait.....

[kit saginaw]

I've played aggressive sports against females... like flag-football, dodgeball, capture the flag, and the one where you had to run to the opposing side when they called your name and 'break thru' a pair of holding hands that you chose, on the way over...

Whatever happened to let the girls win? 

You could pretend to be frustrated while allowing them the illusion of domination. 

[tac]

Oh, my!! An 'all-female' team, no less. 

http://www.mediaite.com/online/all-female-group-will-run-new-nfl-social-responsibility-team/

Hmm that would give a whole new meaning to the term Tight End.

[taxed]

One more reason why I don't watch NFL and NBA anymore and just stick with the UFC and PGA.  Not many people are/were bigger NFL and NBA junkies than I, so if they lost me, then they have to be losing a lot of fans.

[TboneAgain]

One more reason why I don't watch NFL and NBA anymore and just stick with the UFC and PGA.  Not many people are/were bigger NFL and NBA junkies than I, so if they lost me, then they have to be losing a lot of fans.

I dropped out of the NFL scene years ago myself. First free agency destroyed the core of team loyalty. ("Uh, who're we rootin' for this year? What??!! I hated that guy last year!") Then the inevitable quest for the "perfect" player meant that PEDs would pollute the scene -- a problem that will increasingly skew play at the college level. It is truly a sad situation when practically every listing in the record books features an asterisk after every name -- Jim Gridiron* -- and the asterisk stands for "doped to the gills at the time."

I note with sadness how easily the letters "NFL" in my above paragraph could be replaced by "MLB" or "NBA."

[Solar]

I dropped out of the NFL scene years ago myself. First free agency destroyed the core of team loyalty. ("Uh, who're we rootin' for this year? What??!! I hated that guy last year!") Then the inevitable quest for the "perfect" player meant that PEDs would pollute the scene -- a problem that will increasingly skew play at the college level. It is truly a sad situation when practically every listing in the record books features an asterisk after every name -- Jim Gridiron* -- and the asterisk stands for "doped to the gills at the time."

I note with sadness how easily the letters "NFL" in my above paragraph could be replaced by "MLB" or "NBA."

Nailed it! It's why I haven't watched professional sports in nearly two decades.

[mdgiles]

Eventually I will understand why a nation where we take a pill for EVERYTHING, from waking up in the morning to getting to sleep at night; is so stunned when athletes take a pill, to make them play better.

[walkstall]

Eventually I will understand why a nation where we take a pill for EVERYTHING, from waking up in the morning to getting to sleep at night; is so stunned when athletes take a pill, to make them play better.

  So damn true giles.

[TboneAgain]

Eventually I will understand why a nation where we take a pill for EVERYTHING, from waking up in the morning to getting to sleep at night; is so stunned when athletes take a pill, to make them play better.

Maybe less stunned than disappointed. Where have the heroes gone?

[walkstall]

Maybe less stunned than disappointed. Where have the heroes gone?

Your about 50+ years late for heroes.   

[TboneAgain]

Your about 50+ years late for heroes.

Probably about that. I was a Browns fan as a kid, and I remember Jimmy Brown in his prime, Paul Warfield, Don Cockroft, Lou "the Toe" Groza, Leroy Kelly, so many studly fellows barely eking out a living on the gridiron. I remember Y. A. Tittle and Johnny Unitas and Paul Hornung and so many others who were offered as heroes and graced the front of a Wheaties box. Yeah, I recall when there was an NFL and an AFL and no Super Bowl.

I was never much of a basketball fan, but I can go through a similar litany for Major League Baseball, with similar regrets.

Drug-addled freaks trained to hit home runs -- or do other things -- are not heroes. They are products.

[kit saginaw]

I have zero probs with sports evolutions.  I don't like certain personalities in each sport.