On a day when Aaron Rodgers spun UFO tales and the Giants formed a select committee to learn how they can stop blowing late fourth quarter leads, I figure it might be time for another waiver wire. I might also have nothing else relevant to cast into the digiverse. I’ve grown a bit frustrated with football. I find more pleasure and competition in the wild games of my 8u tackle team than in what is about to happen in the NFL. I mean, they moved the touchback to the 25 to limit kick return attempts. Really? The safety of the game is important, but there are other ways to make the game safe than taking away the opportunity to play it.
My kid wears armor. I don’t honestly think it is enough and I regret not getting a kinetics and a material sciences degree so that I can be the guy who makes the better armor. I understand the basic principles, mind you, but I do not have the knowledge to actually build a safer football suit. That suit would need to start with reactive armor–perhaps an ablative gel that redirects the force back away from the impact zone. Of course that thinking means that the force would be bouncing back and forth between the hitter and the target. Now if there were a diffusion cell available to release the shock into the air like the diagrams of a gauss rifle then we would have something. All of this is possible and actually within scientific probability if there was enough money in the fix to make it worthwhile. There really isn’t.
I don’t know why the league is not interested in making these players invincible. Given the amount of money thrown into player salaries one has to wonder why the players are not being provided with proper protection. I haven’t seen concussion as of yet, but I know that film posited a theory about the whole thing…
I’m babbling at this point. again.