Things That Are Bothering You, Got You All Hibbeldy-Jibbeldy, or just downright pissed, RIGHT NOW!

[Joffrey]

My Uber driver picked me up at the airport with a full trunk. I hope she's new.

Uh, Full of what?

 

[lawyerdad]

Uh, Full of what?

Bulky rolled-up carpets and tarps.

 

[Van Veen]

Whatever it was, I'll take it over the time my driver had a half empty fifth of Grey Goose in his door well.

 

[VaderDave]

Whatever it was, I'll take it over the time my driver had a half empty fifth of Grey Goose in his door well.

"I only use it as a de-icer for the windshield in the winter!"

*burp*

 

[edinatlanta]

I only use it when called to give your mom a ride.

 

[edinatlanta]

Speaking of uber I realized I should try it and just part outside the DMV office five minutes from my house. No drivers around, a constant stream of people clearly waiting for their ride and likely a longer distance or two.

 

[SixOhNine]

My Uber driver picked me up at the airport with a full trunk. I hope she's new.

Seems like getting picked up by a stranger with junk in her trunk is the basis for a decent porno.

 

[venividivicibj]

Or a typical Biscotti story

 

[edinatlanta]

I'm getting old man problems way too early.

Think I need reading spectacles and every night at 3am i gotta relieve some pressure.

And yet I still look so young n handsome.

 

[edinatlanta]

Watching last chance u season 2 and it lays bare how hard it is to continue to like and watch football. These kids are risking their entire bodies for our entertainment--nothing else.

It really is the Roman Gladiators in the 21st century.

 

[MrG]

I'll admit that the most recent CTE findings have given me pause about being a fan in a way that I haven't quite experienced before (though it's certainly not the first time I've thought about the ethics of being a fan of such a violent sport). However, it's a little disingenuous to pretend that kids at that level are playing for "nothing else" than our entertainment, or that football is the only dangerous undertaking that exists because of demand driven by want, rather than need.

 

[edinatlanta]

It isn't the only undertaking that's dangerous but there's few spectacles anywhere that compare to a big-time Saturday night football game--an ostensibly amateur sporting event--with millions of dollars on the line. Which umtimately is why you can't just say well there's other sports.

Sure.

But what else is comparable to football?

El Classico and other soccer rivalry games but at least there's compensation there.

The World Series Which, again, being a professional endeavor lessens the emotional weight of the event.

Beyond CTE which seems to be utterly horrific the joints and spine are unable to sustain years of football it won appear. Plus there's the physical trauma of sustained injuries from football.

And for the 97% of college football athletes their careers were for naught if they don't get drafted.

Have I touched on how universities are willing to sell their souls for kids who shouldn't even look at their campus but because they can run fast with a ball they're given preferential treatment? Because that's another can of worms.

 

[brokencycle]

It isn't the only undertaking that's dangerous but there's few spectacles anywhere that compare to a big-time Saturday night football game--an ostensibly amateur sporting event--with millions of dollars on the line. Which umtimately is why you can't just say well there's other sports.

Sure.

But what else is comparable to football?

El Classico and other soccer rivalry games but at least there's compensation there.

The World Series Which, again, being a professional endeavor lessens the emotional weight of the event.

Beyond CTE which seems to be utterly horrific the joints and spine are unable to sustain years of football it won appear. Plus there's the physical trauma of sustained injuries from football.

And for the 97% of college football athletes their careers were for naught if they don't get drafted.

Have I touched on how universities are willing to sell their souls for kids who shouldn't even look at their campus but because they can run fast with a ball they're given preferential treatment? Because that's another can of worms.

On the one hand I feel bad for the players that don't make it, but on the other hand, they knew the odds, and they could have gotten a college education at typically a really good university.

On the final hand, I don't think college sports should exist, at least not in the form they are today.

 

[venividivicibj]

they could have gotten a college education at typically a really good university.

We pretending that most of these kids actually go to class?

 

[otc]

We pretending that most of these kids actually go to class?

That problem is solvable. Some coaches are really good about academics and will even go so far as to bench starting players who can't make grades... Other programs have no qualms about tutors talking tests or athletes enrolled in nonsense classes.