Friday, August 24, 2007

NFL to Add Sensitivity Training during Half-time Huddles

“It is only fitting that the NFL suspend itself”, said Wayne Pacelle, president and CEO of The Humane Society of the United States. "They are now a role model for something terrible, and it's not appropriate that anyone suit up in an NFL uniform."

According to the latest figures from the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta, Georgia 120 human-beings died last season from direct football activities and over 11,000 sustained life threatening injuries resulting in permanent disability.” If you consider the violence surrounding the barbaric game of football”, the Human Statistics for Reality “estimates that over 1.2 million people are involved in a violent act directly related to football each year.”

It is reported that major sponsors, such as Nike, Red Bull, Cocaine, Plasma is You and The Orthopedic Surgeons of America have dropped sponsorship of the blood sport.

When Commissioner Roger Goodell was asked about the violence surrounding professional football he responded, “We are now justifiably facing consequences for the decisions we made and the conduct in which we engaged. Our careers, freedom and public standing are now in the most serious jeopardy," Goodell said. "I hope that we will be able to learn from this difficult experience and emerge from it better prepared to act responsibly and to make the kinds of choices that are expected of conscientious and law abiding citizens."

Also contacted was former Atlanta quarterback Michael Vick who recently accepted a plea bargain for being associated with fighting dogs. He said, “Damn, if I’d only put a helmet on’m and a jersey with numbers I could’a been the next commissioner of the DFL.”

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