Football Causes Rape

NPR.

Colleges Should not Have Football

That's the argument here.

"In the light of the brain damage resulting from football, it is a serious question whether it's morally permissible to participate in or support the sport at all. Still, one can make a case that there are human excellences that this sport provides a particularly good opportunity for (I am grateful to Dan Johnson for this point), and the brain damage is an unintended side-effect, so there might be a defense of the sport in general on the basis of the Principle of Double Effect."

"But I think it is particularly difficult to defend educational institutions supporting this sport among students. For the defining task of an educational institution is to develop the minds of the students. But brain damage harms the individual precisely in respect of mental functioning. And it is much harder for an organization to justify an activity that has among its side-effects serious harm to the goods pursuit of which defines the organization."

Lots of comments here.

Should the Big 12 Add a Championship Game?

If they add a championship game, they need to add at least two, probably four teams.  But it's all about money so who are you going to add?  There are two important factors to consider: TV revenue and quality of the football program.  When the B1G added Penn State and Nebraska they upgraded their $ and the quality of football.  When they added Rutgers and Maryland they didn't upgrade the quality of football but they added two HUGE markets which down the road MIGHT pay big dividends. 

But who would the Big 12 add?
Here are some candidates:

OSU's Next QB: Glass Half Full?

Cardale Jones's infamous tweet is making the rounds again.




As a Buckeye fan I can choose to look at this in one of two ways.  (1) Our 3rd string QB and now starter is clearly an idiot.  (2) He's not been wasting his time studying anything OTHER THAN FOOTBALL so we're about to make the playoffs.  I choose the latter!

Where Football Players Call Home

Which Parts of the Country Produce the Most NFL Players

Where College Football Players Call Home

Recent NFL Draft Hotbeds

College:

NFL:

Breakdown over last 3 drafts per capita

1. Mobile (726K) 12.4 
2. South Georgia (1.5 million) 11.3
3. Miami-Dade Co.(2.59) 10.42
4. Palm Beach Co.(1.37) 10.22 
5. Broward County (1.85) 9.19
6. New Orleans (2.1) 8.57
7. Birmingham (1.35) 8.14
8. Florida Panhandle (1.23) 8.13 
9. Columbus(1.95) 6.67
10. Cleveland (2.1) 6.6 

Steelers NLF Jerseys

I knew there was a reason God put me in Arkansas. Now I know WHY!  (I always sort of thought AR was the WV of the South.  Either that or the PA!)
HT: TH

Football!!!

God Predicts College Football National Champion

Here it is.

The Buckeye's Brutus in Onion