Who should pay for retired players medical bills

[marionbarberthe4th]

Thread has potential can I breathe some life into it?

I have the race card and I'm thinking of playing it

 

[superpunk]

typical owner backers

is this the sown or what?

 

[Bob Sacamano]

So when soldiers get back from war we should tell them to fuck off they knew the risks? They served, took their lumps and knew the risks going in - so are the people who benefitted from their service not indebted to them in any way or obligated to them at all? After all they knew the risks and we compensated them during their tenure.

It's one thing to be compensated for risking your life, and another to be compensated for not actually working a day in your life.

 

[Midswat]

It's one thing to be compensated for risking your life, and another to be compensated for not actually working a day in your life.

That is just one of many ways that analogy is horribly flawed.

Another would be... Miles Austin says "I'm tired of these hamstring tears. I know I have three years left on my contract, but I'd like to retire." He can do that.

Soldier says "I got shrapnel in my legs and stomach in Afghanistan. Corpsman patched me up. I know I got three years left on my enlistment, but I'd like to retire. Army says "Bitch please. Back to the frontlines you go."

 

[Bob Sacamano]

Yeah, and I'm sorry the effects of concussions are a relatively new phenomenon; but there were tons of knowable injuries back then that can be just as crippling in old age that they were aware of, and still they chose that path.

Tough rocks.

 

[superpunk]

It's one thing to be compensated for risking your life, and another to be compensated for not actually working a day in your life.

remember this?

R U SRSLY COMPRING PLAYERS TO SOLJERS???????"

that's for you, you fucking twit

 

[Bob Sacamano]

wut?

 

[superpunk]

exactly. quit trying to make it into something it's not.

 

[Bob Sacamano]

So what was the basis for the soldier example if we aren't supposed to be turning it into I don't know what the hell?

 

[superpunk]

if your argument is that athletes should be "on their own" after retirement because hurr durr they knew the risks, guys...

for fucks sake people pick up a book on debate or critical thinking.

 

[Midswat]

No. How about you pick up a book on STFU and stop living in a world of unicorns and sugarplums because life is hard hahahah #dealwithit.

 

[Midswat]

No but really its wicked sad and these guys should be spoon fed their entire lives because they're totally forced to play in the NFL.

 

[superpunk]

midswat sit the fuck down you clearly didn't read the article or understand the issue at all.

get back to me when you educate yourself ****** noone is looking for a handout here. if we all followed your asinine bumfuck non-logic there would be no such thing as workers comp or disability for ANYONE. go pick up a book homo. or actually read the fucking article this thread is about you nitwit.

 

[Midswat]

What! I'm agreeing with you.

These poor guys getting all those six figures and shits forced to play like gladiators when clearly there was no way of knowing or even suspecting that running into each other at full speed might cause bodily harm.

I mean wtf 'merica!

 

[superpunk]

again if you think it's about foreknowledge you don't understand the issue. These guys are entitled to certain things by the laws of fucking America. The NFL is actively working to remove some of those things from them to save a few bucks. And you want to paint the players as the bad guys, or some sort of rubes who had no idea what would happen to them as they aged. No wonder we are getting robbed blind you people are too stupid to see when people are being taken advantage of.

oh i love my massuh he gives me jobs i don want for nothin

 

[Midswat]

awwwww

 

[marionbarberthe4th]

I like rich white men staying as rich and white as possible ill foot the bill for their costs of business operation

 

[superpunk]

#ownerbackers

 

[Irving Cowboy]

I'm saddened that you're too stupid to see that instead of the owners footing this bill it's passed on to us, and you're totally stoked about it.

SP thinks that if the owners end up doing what he thinks they should that those costs won't get passed on to the fans anyway.

Christ almighty.

 

[superpunk]

SP thinks that if the owners end up doing what he thinks they should that those costs won't get passed on to the fans anyway.

I'm sure that's exactly what they'd try to do. So what? you retards use the same argument about fast food restaurants. Guess what? if the owners try to drop the cost on the fans, the fans will either accept it and move on OR if the market won't bear it the fans will stop paying and the owners will have to eat it. They do the same thing with burgeoning players salaries today. Stop acting like you're making some sort of salient argument against doing the right thing with this 2nd grade economics bullshit.


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