By: Ryan Welte
THE OPINION COLUMN
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Chris Bosh says he's a lock for the NBA Hall of Fame. “Hell, yeah, of course. I’ve been a Hall of Famer like four years ago,” Bosh told Fox Sports Florida.
I don't agree, yet. Certainly not 4 years ago. Now that Bosh has gotten a
“I’m a big football fan, but I have to tell you if I had a son, I’d have to think long and hard before I let him play football,”said President Obama this week.
As a 15-year-old I am probably not the most appropriate person to answer on whether I would allow my child to play a sport. But, I do know a lot about the sport and its risks. My parents let me play. I played one year, had enough, and was one of the lucky ones to play and not get any kind of short or long term
"Thirty years from now," Pollard told CBSSports.com's Clark Judge, "I don't think it, (the NFL), will be in existence. I could be wrong. It's just my opinion, but I think with the direction things are going."
punched in the head so hard hat they cannot stand. It is the same thing in the NFL. Eventually, I think someone is literally going to die on the playing field on a bad hit to the head or neck. Football has
a lot to be concerned about in the next 3 decades.
I don't think the NFL will be "extinct" but I do think it will be in serious decline. As much as I hate to say it, I think football is headed into the direction of boxing. A sport based on launching your body at another player cannot be kept safe no matter what kind of effort the NFL tries to make to create a safer game. Boxing was the main sport in the U.S. in its prime, just as football is today. But now, after we see the long term effects if somebody getting
injury to my body. Knowing what we know about head injuries today, it would be a really tough decision. I certainly wouldn't want my child having blows to the head at the age of 6, but I think contact football by the age of Middle School would be okay. With my body type, I'm pretty sure I won't have a kid with the physical characteristics of a giant NFL player so he wouldn't be getting smashed for a living and probably would only play up to high school ball anyway.
Championship, he has a lot more of an argument. Bosh has made an impressive EIGHT all star teams in his career so far, and is only going to make more. The only player in NBA history to make 8 all star teams and fail to be in the Hall of Fame is Larry Foust, so the odds are in Bosh's favor. In a couple of years, I think Bosh could have cemented his Hall of Fame legacy.