{"article":{"id":265803,"heading":"National Football League Violence","author":"First Do No Harm","created":"2014-09-17 18:29:37","modified":"2014-09-17 18:29:37","last_modified":"Thu, 18 Sep 2014 01:29:37","article":"

The National Football League

1. causes football players

to hurt and kill themselves

with neck, knee, head, eye injuries.

2. causes them to harm others

with the same injuries

3. in encouraging the smashing

and tackling of their opponents,

the NFL encourages domestic violence

4. and child abuse

5. and programs the population

to war.

6. As gladiators were killed for the amusement

of the tyrant emperor and the coliseum mob

in ancient Rome, so football players are the

victims of financial greed and a lust for blood and excitement.

7. Cheerleaders objectify and debase women.

Dan Diamond writes in Forbes: “NFL players suffer repeated blows to the head every Sunday. A star player …will get tackled hundreds of times every year. And there is evidence to suggest that all those hits to the brain may increase the propensity to commit domestic violence.” Two NFL players are in the news for violence at home, The NFL recently paid 750 million dollars to the many football player victims of permanent spine, paraplegia generating and other injuries… but the injuries continue.)

Does football make one violent? Dan Diamond in Forbes

http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/dandiamond\/2014\/09\/16\/does-football-make-you\/<\/a>

NFL Arrests for domestic violence

http:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/datalab\/the-rate-of-domestic-violence-arrests\/<\/a>

http:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/datalab\/the-rat<\/a>...

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