Hasselbeck has received a Matt Hasselbeck Well-Deserved Shit-Canning. Well, it wasn’t exactly a Well-Deserved Shit-Canning, but it’s the same end result: he’s not here. IIRC, he’s gone off to Tenessee, and there’ll hell lead the Titans to there Tom Brady Well-Deserved Beating. I wish him the best, in his future losing season. Which probably means that Seattle is looking for a new quarterback (though, I will root for Charlie Whitehurst. I just the offensive line holds up…). It has also been heard that the ‘Hawks were seriously considering Brett Favre. God Forbid. I saw his last play last season. He should not take the field again. Ever! Before, I thought it was just funny to joke around with him being old (like his suspension due to testing positive for Geritol). But now, my position is that he needs to stay retired. For his health. Seriously. Besides, the conditions of the turf at CenturyLink Field are not conducive to the use of walkers on the field. Perhaps if he’d actually ran instead of just telling the oncoming rush to get off his lawn….
While we’re on it, the NFL needs to seriously address concussions and head injuries. Sure we love to see all the hits, and ball carriers getting crunched, but there are people getting hurt. I know a lot of you think the NFL is devolving to touch football, but many of these players are beating themselves senile. And most NFL careers and ended by the time the players are in there thirties (many of them earlier). And I just don’t think it’s right to sacrifice your entire life just for 16-18 hours every fall in your 20s…. Perhaps the NFL could also borrow a page from the NHL’s book. Make ‘attempting to injure’ a call-able foul. Once called the offending player is immediately ejected from the game, and the league has to review it before he can return. Or maybe, the league could borrow the concept of the yellow and red cards from MLS. Yellow = your first and last warning from the officials. Red = you’re ejected from the game, and your team is playing short-handed for the duration….
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