Bernard Pollard: American Football Will Not Exist In 20-30 Years

[The Raven]

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Kind of contradictory, don't you think? Oh yeah, Mr. Best QB in the NFL!
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Not entirely. Rice has been the only one who's actually talking. Flacco and Harbs were both prompted by questions in interviews. We haven't been "chirping" as you put it. Smh!

[SideStep77]

I think if all this concussion stuff doesn't get straightened out there will be some serious consequences but it will still be there. I understand where he is coming from though.

[CapoRocky]

I think that the rules will be changed and the equipment will be far superior to what they have now. I don't think that football is going anywhere. Even if all else fails, we will need some kind of entertainment in our older years. In 20 years, I'll be 42 and in 30 I'll be 52. I'm sure some of you are older than me. What do you want to do with your time during your retirement years? I think back to an old commercial for MNF. The old guy is on life support and flat lines. The theme song for MNF comes on his tv and he comes back to life.

[CapoRocky]

At least Pollard didn't say that he is the best DB in the NFL! I guess a hard hitter like BP doesn't like the softer rules.

[display name]

[quote name='The Raven' timestamp='1336339617' post='1072912']
Not entirely. Rice has been the only one who's actually talking. Flacco and Harbs were both prompted by questions in interviews. We haven't been "chirping" as you put it. Smh!
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I haven't heard Ray Rice talk much.

Anyone else think this is getting off-topic?

[Suggs Package]

Personally I think football will continue to follow the trend of American Sports:

1.) The sport reaches the height of popularity
2.) The public finds out that the sport is dangerous/unethical
3.) The sport is cleaned up
4.) The sport becomes boring

It has already happened to boxing, NASCAR and horse racing and its gonna happen the hockey as well. There's far less homers now than in the steroid era in baseball and half of the teams had their best attendance records in the mid-90s.

I'm not saying that the sport shouldn't be made safer, because it should. But lots of people are fans because of the violence associated with football just like people are attracted to the violence in boxing and hockey, the crashes/explosions in car racing, etc. In short, as much as we like to believe we're not, we're still very much savages.

[Ed_Reed20]

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[b]His comments were just very inappropriate. Not a fan.[/b] Also, since when were the Baltimore Ravens the chirping team? We haven't done that a lot in the past, but we've been talking more than usual this offseason.
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You might not like his comments for whatever reason, but they weren't inappropriate at all.

[Guest RBates]

[quote name='arnie_uk' timestamp='1336318790' post='1072766']
getting a flag for a late hit doesnt make them any better so thats a stupid arguement
[/quote] I will let someone else have a go at it then. Arnie over here, argued by many football fans, these facts are undeniable. We don't really argue with each other on whether or not they get special treatment. The only argument is (how much).

[GrimCoconut]

Concussions need to be fixed early not in the NFL anyway. If you really want to get into a discussion, we could take this discussion into a different direction and say that it should be initiated in college, high school, and pee wee football. Concussions are usually injuries that recur after previous injury, so if you have kids having them early there is a much higher risk. There is realistically no way Goodell or anyone in the NFL can stop this unless it's fixed at the lowest level to the highest.

[The Raven]

[quote name='GrimCoconut' timestamp='1336509691' post='1074142']
Concussions need to be fixed early not in the NFL anyway. If you really want to get into a discussion, we could take this discussion into a different direction and say that it should be initiated in college, high school, and pee wee football. Concussions are usually injuries that recur after previous injury, so if you have kids having them early there is a much higher risk. There is realistically no way Goodell or anyone in the NFL can stop this unless it's fixed at the lowest level to the highest.
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This. This! This!!!

[ellicottraven]

Upset? why would anybody be upset over his opinions? His thinking is backed up by his logic so I have no gripe with it, other than I disagree. I disagree simply because business such as the NFL will evolve with the thought processes of the people that watch it. Sometimes they condition fans' thinking and sometimes fans' thinking conditions the game. That's all. Football is here to stay for eons!

[Militant X 1]

Pollard is a grown man! he spoke his mind! and what he said doesn't make the Ravens look bad. smh! and to be honest, i think that some of you cats are reading too deeply into his comment and making a mole hill into a mountain. we all know that the "game" or "sporting event" known as football will still exist in 20-30 years. BUT, the "style of play" or the "agressiveness" of that game or sporting event is changing! that is what Pollard expressed in his comments.

~Mili

[VitaminMawc]

lol at the people upset over his comments.... smh

your prob the same people that are angry at suggs, or angry ed reed was catching fly balls at camden yards last week.

They are real people and they are allowed to do real things, not sit a bubble like some you expect....

[George70]

After having read a column by Dave Zirin just recently, I have to believe that there is a fear by some within the league that, over the next twenty years, football could become the "new" boxing. Yet we should be careful of concussions - that's what I believe.