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The word “fan” is derived from “fanatic”. With good reason. The reaction would have been the same anywhere. These guys are modern day gladiators. Joe and Jane Sixpack, be they in Indy or Santa Clara, don’t care about the health of the person. They can’t. If they did they wouldn’t watch the game.

I truly wish I could stop watching football. But I’m a fan......

That farewell walk off the field was disgusting. Indy owes him a big apology. I would be so ashamed if I was a part of that organization.

With all due respect, these posts that, simply stated, suggest that watching football is somehow immoral or indicative that the spectators "don't care about the health of the person" are getting a little tedious. Andrew Luck [and Doug Baldwin and ...etc etc] are highly intelligent persons who voluntarily chose to play football for reasons that they presumably considered seriously before starting [and continuing] to play the game. They weighed the risks and kept playing until, having again weighed the risks, they decided to stop.  Voluntarily and making their own informed decisions.

There are myriad activities that fall into this category, with much higher risks.  Alex Honnold climbs sheer stone faces without a rope. Mario Andretti drove Indy cars at 250+ miles per hour. James Lovell went into space.

People [including me] spectated, and enjoyed, all of these activities, and I don't think any of them was shameful [much less immoral] for doing so.  Certainly, there are spectators who go to car races for the crashes and, perhaps, even watch climbers on El Capitan hoping to see someone fall.  Those people, I entirely agree, are shameful. But, I'm confident that nobody on this Board watches football games for the purpose of seeing players get injured

The players -- and, certainly, players at Stanford -- are not, in fact, "gladiators," at least in the sense that they are being forced to play football.  They are adults exercising their own independent judgment to do something they have decided is worth it.  Why is it wrong to cheer for that?

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The word “fan” is derived from “fanatic”. With good reason. The reaction would have been the same anywhere. These guys are modern day gladiators. Joe and Jane Sixpack, be they in Indy or Santa Clara, don’t care about the health of the person. They can’t. If they did they wouldn’t watch the game.

I truly wish I could stop watching football. But I’m a fan......

That farewell walk off the field was disgusting. Indy owes him a big apology. I would be so ashamed if I was a part of that organization.

With all due respect, these posts that, simply stated, suggest that watching football is somehow immoral or indicative that the spectators "don't care about the health of the person" are getting a little tedious. Andrew Luck [and Doug Baldwin and ...etc etc] are highly intelligent persons who voluntarily chose to play football for reasons that they presumably considered seriously before starting [and continuing] to play the game. They weighed the risks and kept playing until, having again weighed the risks, they decided to stop.  Voluntarily and making their own informed decisions.

There are myriad activities that fall into this category, with much higher risks.  Alex Honnold climbs sheer stone faces without a rope. Mario Andretti drove Indy cars at 250+ miles per hour. James Lovell went into space.

People [including me] spectated, and enjoyed, all of these activities, and I don't think any of them was shameful [much less immoral] for doing so.  Certainly, there are spectators who go to car races for the crashes and, perhaps, even watch climbers on El Capitan hoping to see someone fall.  Those people, I entirely agree, are shameful. But, I'm confident that nobody on this Board watches football games for the purpose of seeing players get injured

The players -- and, certainly, players at Stanford -- are not, in fact, "gladiators," at least in the sense that they are being forced to play football.  They are adults exercising their own independent judgment to do something they have decided is worth it.  Why is it wrong to cheer for that?