Deer everyone (brojos, sub elites, Ryan Vail) whining about competitor group

Go Jonny GO wrote:

Let a Pro be a Pro wrote:

Would you tell an NFL player he needs to add an additional 20-30 hours of work per week since all he's really doing during the day leading up to a game is going to a short practice and watching some film? No, not at all.

Wrong. All sports should be amateur, and yes, even the NFL player should be doing a real job, period. Giving a grown man some money to throw a ball around in front of some people is just pathetic. Money that is going into NFL players' earnings should instead be going into biomedical research and healthcare and in that way organisations such as the NFL would actually be improving society, thereby making themselves much more popular with the paying public. Plus the games would become far more entertaining as opposed to putting up with watching a bunch of steroid-infused behemoths falling over each other every second of play.

The original and correct concept of sports was for them to be pastimes as their activity is simply not important enough to warrant being paid a wage for doing them. Professionalising sports has turned them into a PED-infested cesspool of corruption. It has also turned a lot of athletes into a bunch of immature crybabies who would otherwise be pretty decent citizens. None of these things are a decent example for kids to follow today.

The whole industry of sports needs to be cleaned up from top to bottom and amateurism is the way to go as opposed to sending billions of dollars on useless and corrupt PED-testing procedures. Guys like Kawauchi and Jonny Langenwanker are the best model for distance running to follow if you do not want serious participation to die out completely in developed nations within the next 50 years. They are a sending out the message of: "be a fully independent man, get a real job to support yourself, and run hard in your spare time for the sheer joy of disciplining and bettering yourself". That message is far more likely to generate media interest in distance running and to inspire more Joe Publics out there to lace'em up and get out there training hard.

johnny langenwanker wrote:

Go Jonny GO wrote:

Wrong. All sports should be amateur, and yes, even the NFL player should be doing a real job, period. Giving a grown man some money to throw a ball around in front of some people is just pathetic. Money that is going into NFL players' earnings should instead be going into biomedical research and healthcare and in that way organisations such as the NFL would actually be improving society, thereby making themselves much more popular with the paying public. Plus the games would become far more entertaining as opposed to putting up with watching a bunch of steroid-infused behemoths falling over each other every second of play.

The original and correct concept of sports was for them to be pastimes as their activity is simply not important enough to warrant being paid a wage for doing them. Professionalising sports has turned them into a PED-infested cesspool of corruption. It has also turned a lot of athletes into a bunch of immature crybabies who would otherwise be pretty decent citizens. None of these things are a decent example for kids to follow today.

The whole industry of sports needs to be cleaned up from top to bottom and amateurism is the way to go as opposed to sending billions of dollars on useless and corrupt PED-testing procedures. Guys like Kawauchi and Jonny Langenwanker are the best model for distance running to follow if you do not want serious participation to die out completely in developed nations within the next 50 years. They are a sending out the message of: "be a fully independent man, get a real job to support yourself, and run hard in your spare time for the sheer joy of disciplining and bettering yourself". That message is far more likely to generate media interest in distance running and to inspire more Joe Publics out there to lace'em up and get out there training hard.

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