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Friday, February 6, 2009 10:23 AM

cherylsass123

now there is women's professional tackle football also, and that I'd love to see, the WNFL, IWFL, and one other exist. but once again, it is not as well known yet,

There is not a pro women's football league, the league you speak of is pay to play.

Title IX exists and has done so since the early 1970's , yet there is still no such thing as equal rights for women. and there will never be till women's tackle football becomes a viable college sport, let alone go pro.

And there never will be wide spread high school girls football or college womens football. The biggest problem is there is not an insurance company on earth that will take on that risk. Girls and Women just can not take the beating especially to their knees. Female athletes are already something like 4 times more likely to suffer from the various knee injuries compared to their male counterparts in soccer and basketball while football has more fast directional changes than those two sports. Another huge problem is that many if not most high schools already have a hard enough time filling out the girls roosters in the various sports know try to find the 35 plus to fill out a football team.

nd the fucking men whom run the sports' show still think with the reasoning of " those little ladies may get hurt playing sports meant for men."

And they are correct when it comes to football. Like I already mentioned there risk of knee injuries will be at least 4 times higher more likely many times higher than that. And lets be real the game will suck to a greater degree than women's basketball sucks compared to men. It will be the freak girl in HS that can even throw the out pattern further than 8 yards passed the LoS. The game would look like rugby more than football.

Sunday, February 8, 2009 08:26 AM

Rambling Rose 22

YEAH...LET'S LEGALIZE POT...

and heroin, meth, crack, cocaine, and everything else too. I mean, hey, we can all take it. We're all responsible, Olympic champions and NFL and NBA stars. So why not?

I completely agree with you. We are all responsible for what we put into our own bodies and in most cases can weigh our decisions better than anyone else. And you are right, weed seems to be a great thing with you know the Superbowl MVP a pot head. Lets not forget that 3/4th of the NBA are pot heads.

It doesn't matter that kids don't have drug-free celebrities and atheletes and so forth to look up to, does it? Everyone is a pot head according to this article, so what the hey.

Damn, I should have known you are a teetotaler. Why is it only athletes that get called out on this as if they are the only role models? Winston Churchill and FDR where both drunks when they kicked the shit out of the teetotaler Hitler. US Grant was a drunk. The founders celebrated the signing of the Constitution by drinking over a bottle of wine a piece, plus 2 large tubs of rum punch and about a half bottle a piece of whisky. George Washington demanded booze for his troops. The great writers of the 20th century drunks and/or drug users. Most of the great musicians again either drunks and/or drug users. Most of the great actors drunks and/or drug users. Babe fucking Ruth was a drunk and drug abuser. All of the great baseball players of the 50's and 60's popped speed at least once and most every day. Too put it another way, basically anyone that my kids would want to look up to or I want them to look up to used some substance to alter their mind.

Every person should be able to wreck his or her own life without regard for anyone else, rigth? Isn't that in the U.S. Constitution some place: Thou shalt be stoned and screw up without consequences? Yeah, thought I read it some place.

At least the teetotalers of yesterday knew that they had to change the Constitution to have prohibition. Also, can you show me where you have a right to privacy or the right to even own a car in the Constitution? Maybe if you go back and reread the damn thing along with the Federalist papers and other writings of the founders you would know that the Constitution does not allow you to do a damn thing, what it does do is give the limitations of what the government can do.

I love having conversations with stoners too. They are so responsive. And their work eithic (oh, other than Phelps who I'm sure was swimming because it was so wholesome and not for the multi-million deals he could fuck up) is really swell too.

I know what you mean, listing to Bill Gates, Obama, Brunson, or Bloomburg to name but four, is impossible. They keep wanting to talk about their new bongs and scooby doo.

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