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Growing Evidence of Football Causing Brain Damage
ideonexus writes "NFL Linebacker Junior Seau's suicide this week bears a striking similarity to NFL Safety Dave Duerson's suicide last year, who shot himself in the chest so that doctors could study his brain, where they found the same chronic traumatic encephalopathy that has been found in the brains of 20 other dead football players. Malcom Gladwell stirred up controversy in 2009 by comparing professional football to dog fighting for the trauma the game inflicts on players' brains. With mounting evidence that the repeated concussions football players receive during their careers causing a lifetime of brain problems, it raises serious concerns about America's most popular sport and ethical questions for its fanbase."
You're so wrong, it's almost comical.
Association Football is not called by the English word "football" alone anywhere outside of the Anglosphere. Pretty much by definition. And within the Anglosphere, it's only called that in the UK, Jamaica, and (I admit I was being snarky about this part originally) India.
"The rest of the world" is completely irrelevant to what I said. So calling me "wrong" because I (deliberately) ignored the rest of the world is, quite simply, wrong.
I am entirely aware of your argument, but not one word I said contradicted anything you said! If you are unfamiliar with nuanced argument, I recommend you buy a good book on semantics or basic logic.
But most of all, you're utterly wrong because you completely ignored my primary point that Canada, Australia and Ireland have their own games called "football", meaning that complaints about nomenclature are not just criticisms of the US. If you can't understand that point, we have no hope of communicating.