Ehwmatt wrote:It's the same reason some of them pound booze all the time too like Kosar... they hurt so bad.
My sister's boyfriend's dad is a former NFL player and the guy just got both his knees basically replaced... he could barely walk before.
I also ran into Jim Brown last time I was traveling at the airport, guy looks like he's got shrapnel still lodged in his fuckin legs.
You figure the average career span for a average NFL player is 7-10 years. Aside from Brett Favre, kickers, and just freaks of nature, these players tend to ask for the big contract, hold out from training camp because that next play/year is not guaranteed and serious injury could prevent them all their hard work and miss out on making the big bucks knowing that it's a 10 years tops business anyhow, so the window is as small as it is to make as much money as possible while giving your body to the devil so to speak. Football isn't a sport meant to be played forever, and NFL athletes know this.
As far as baseball players and hitting a baseball, I tend to agree to only a small portion of the point. Yes, hitting a baseball is probably one of the toughest things to do, but I am a firm believer of repetition, and no matter how bad a batter is, repetition could lead to many hits and skill at a pro level. A fast ball will always be a fast ball, and a curve will always be a curve. The more and more you prepare for those pitches, the better hand eye and timing coordination comes into play, and baseball is all about recycling the same material. It's just a little chess match more than anything.. more mental than anything else that includes the same repetitive plays.
Football is changing at all times, there is so many things to prepare for that things get confusing in a matter of a simple formation, and to top it off, all 11 guys have an assignment, and only if 10 guys do EXACTLY what their supposed to, then the whole play crumbles and it's back to the drawing board. Yes, you could have repetition throughout the week of practice for football when it comes to fundamentals, but whatever you did the week before as to preparing for the next team will be thrown out the door and new assignments are withheld, so you must be on your toes at all times during the coarse of the season. Game plans are tremendous week in and week out and if you miss one assignment, you could never catch back up, unless you study the playbook for hours but even that does little wanders for an offense, esp since the defense is never set until the ball is snapped so they show more than one look and a football players knowledge better set in within seconds to adjust.
Posted: Thu Oct 01, 2009 10:44 pm