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Originally Posted by jayswin
Yeah, me too. I've argued in favour of fighting and battled Jiri specifically on occasions in defense of it, but I think I'm at the point of seeing a quick end to it now.
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Literally exactly what I was thinking. I would read Jiri and others on this site for years and roll my eyes and think what a joke, it’s the game, it’s the way it’s always been. If you take out the physical aspect the intensity disappears. I think that still holds true, but...
But after reading this gut wrenching article... man. I don’t know how any reasonable person reads this top to bottom and thinks to themselves let’s keep things the way they are. Message received, it’s pretty ####ed up. It seems fairly obvious there’s a pretty consistent pattern here. Not just hockey either as Captain says. Football too... Junior Seau shot himself in the chest rather than the head to preserve the brain for research to prove a point. Crazy. Did he die in vain? Did all of these people?
If the game has to change to prevent this kind of thing then have at er