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Training Camps In The Summer Is STUPID
By Jonathan Atwood on July 29th, 2008 8:00 PM |
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Eagles’ defensive end Chris Clemons was taken to the hospital Tuesday because of dehydration, again begging the question, why do football teams practice in the summer? (For more on the actual story, read here.)
Seriously though, can someone please explain to me why in the world guys suit up in full pads and do two a days in 80+ degree heat? Wouldn’t you think that with the number of players that inevitably head to the hospital every summer the NFL would get the hint? Or how about when one of their players dies, like Korey Stringer of the Minnesota Vikings did in 2001. Stringer died of heat stroke after 100+ degree temperatures rocked the region.
It doesn’t get to 100 in Minnesota in September folks. People do not die from heat stroke in September.
To avoid having these stupid training camps during the hottest part of the year, move the season back a month or a month and a half. Believe me, there is just as little going on in mid March as there is in early February. I think this NFL obsessed country would watch the commercials, I mean the worst game of the year, I mean the SuperBowl in March just as fervently as they do in February. Hey, you might even get more fans to watch, considering we’ll have more players around to watch.
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How bout this: If the team can go an entire season without getting a single cramp, then they are all exempt the next summer.
it is possible that the salmonella outbreak has caused a fear of using the Iggles’ famous pickle juice brew. . .
Also, Stringer was 300+ pounds when he died, which might have had something to do with it. Should we put weight caps on O-lineman too? That seems just as reasonable a method.
I would agree to moving the season back (because I certainly have a say in the matter) if no player on the team suffers a cramp the season before. Otherwise, suck it up and drink some pickle juice.
There is just absolutely no reason why they can’t or shouldn’t move the season back. At least no one has ever presented me with a good reason.
And it’s easy for us to just tell them to drink pickle juice, but we’re not the ones running the two a days. And yes, Stringer was 300+ lbs, but so are a lot of lineman. And they are that weight because that’s what their teams want. The bigger they are the harder they are to push around.
Right. So if the NFL put a cap on the weight of lineman no team could have an advantage.
The point is the weight cap is as ridiculous an idea as moving the date back. Should they cancel games during a heat spell? Forbid cities that are more than 100 miles from Canada from having teams?
Face it. Full Pad Two a days in August heat are part of football, from Pop Warner to the NFL. It is part of the pre-season, and training for your role when the year starts. I did it in high school and it sucks. But you know what else sucks even more? Playing in a football game as an O-lineman. He has to get ready for that, hence camp in the heat.