[Next Big Thing]

Originally Posted by Kris P Lettus Kinda funny to see you and NBT act hypocritical in yr morality in the sports you chose to watch..

Are you seriously trying to make a parallel? That's laughable.

In boxing, mixed martial arts and football there's an assumption of risk that all participants are aware of. Especially today with so much advancement in medicine and knowledge of trauma. Boxers and MMA fighters know the other guy is going to try to knock him out or submit him just like football players know the other guy is going to try to knock the snot out of him. Being tackled is as much a part of football as being punched is a part of combat sports.

HOWEVER, just as fighters can reasonably expect to have a clean match devoid of low blows, rabbit punches, wraps laced with plaster of paris and eye gouges, football players should be able to play the game without worrying about the opposing side purposely trying to concuss them or injure them by targeting their knees. Just as boxing fans can be upset when someone like Antonio Margarito gets caught with loaded gloves, football fans can be disgusted by the idea of an opposing coach telling his players to target a guy's ACL.

I don't give a damn about coaches using war rhetoric, violent imagery, cursing and even telling their players to try to decleet a guy coming back from injury to see if he's skittish. Williams went beyond that. There's no way in hell you can say it's okay for him to advocate going after another players ACL or telling his guys to purposely hit Frank Gore in the head when concussion awareness and prevention is at the top of the NFL's agenda and there is medical evidence of the long term effects of concussions. If you can't see the difference between advocating and celebrating clean, hard hits (which players expect) and a coach telling players to go after a guy's ACL, you need to take some time and think about it.