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Originally Posted by Eric
I really don't want to get too serious on a thread like this; but that Joey Barton video underscores one of the problems with soccer ... oops, "football".  Barton comes up with a cheap shot ... didn't seem like much but the guy who took it went down like he'd been smoked across the pumpkin with a Louisville Slugger  .... |
It is hard to get serious Eric when footballers go down under the most innocuous of challenges as if they have been hit by a round from a 0.458 Winchester... BUT and it is a big but I am uneasy with kids seeing that kind of thing just as much as I would be over your way with them seeing such unedifying battles on the ice.