If you want one reason that even I am not qualified to believe that we could feasibly end football (and, at the same time, yet another reason why it has to happen!!), I point you to Ben Rohrbach's post in the High School sports/recruiting blog "Prep Rally" today.
It is the story of one Damian Prince from Forestville, MD.
He is the #2-ranked offensive tackle for this year's high school seniors (the ones who would play in college in 2014).
He is one of the top twenty recruits, of any position, in this class.
So, obviously, there is much competition to secure his services. He is down to a list of schools: On Monday, according to the Washington Post, he is down to 10 schools: Alabama, Florida, Florida State, Georgia, Maryland, Ohio State, Rutgers, South Carolina, Tennessee and Vanderbilt. In about three weeks, that list will become six, and all contact will stop, so that he can concentrate on his high-school senior season.
(No surprise that it's his home state school, Florida State, Ohio State, and six SEC schools...)
Purported fans of one of the schools (unsure whether it's still on his list or was beforehand part of a list of 30 cut to these 10) have gone so far as to give death threats.
One got his phone number. Several masked men with guns contacted Prince on social media, threatening to kill him and his family if their school does not get the call.
Anybody want to explain to me what these fuckers would do without football, if they are this insane WITH IT?
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