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Why are idiots better football players?
Posted on 8/1/24 at 4:21 pm
Posted on 8/1/24 at 4:21 pm
It is widely assumed that stupid people are better football players than intelligent people. Why is this?
Teams like Yale, Vanderbilt, Harvard, etc..., jn modern times, don't have good teams and the reason given for that is because they don't allow stupid players to participate. They have higher standards, supposedly, and smart people can't play football very well.
Teams like auburn, that used to regularly put mentally retarded individuals on their team were good at one time. Their school motto used to be that auburn players didn't come to the plains to play school.
Are stupid people stronger, like with stupid strength or something? Can the idiots run faster because their brains don't work right? Are dullards somehow better able to grasp the integral details of football strategy than more intelligent players?
If everything were equal and you had a full team of smart, athletic people vs. a full team of dumb, athletic people, why do the morons always have the assumed advantage?
Teams like Yale, Vanderbilt, Harvard, etc..., jn modern times, don't have good teams and the reason given for that is because they don't allow stupid players to participate. They have higher standards, supposedly, and smart people can't play football very well.
Teams like auburn, that used to regularly put mentally retarded individuals on their team were good at one time. Their school motto used to be that auburn players didn't come to the plains to play school.
Are stupid people stronger, like with stupid strength or something? Can the idiots run faster because their brains don't work right? Are dullards somehow better able to grasp the integral details of football strategy than more intelligent players?
If everything were equal and you had a full team of smart, athletic people vs. a full team of dumb, athletic people, why do the morons always have the assumed advantage?
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Posted on 8/1/24 at 4:28 pm to Smokey Okie
In order to be good at most positions in football, you have to be at least a little reckless. Smart people are less likely to be reckless and violent than dumb people. Obviously that is a huge generalization and doesn’t always hold true.
For Ivy League type schools specifically, the bigger issue is that they are only looking at the top 1% academically, and there are not many people within that subset who have the athletic traits necessary to be an elite football player. When Alabama, Georgia, etc. are open to taking a far less qualified student, that opens of the pool of possible athletic prospects by a huge amount.
For Ivy League type schools specifically, the bigger issue is that they are only looking at the top 1% academically, and there are not many people within that subset who have the athletic traits necessary to be an elite football player. When Alabama, Georgia, etc. are open to taking a far less qualified student, that opens of the pool of possible athletic prospects by a huge amount.
Posted on 8/1/24 at 4:30 pm to Smokey Okie
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If everything were equal and you had a full team of smart, athletic people vs. a full team of dumb, athletic people, why do the morons always have the assumed advantage?
In this example, the smart and athletic people would win, but nobody can assemble a team of that many elite athletes who are also very smart. There aren’t that many people like that in the population.
Posted on 8/1/24 at 4:30 pm to Smokey Okie
Reuben Foster matriculated at Bama lol.
Posted on 8/1/24 at 4:31 pm to Smokey Okie
It’s more about putting an emphasis on sports vs just not. Sports at all costs vs academics at all cost.
The goal is to strike a balance. You want to graduate kids and not be in news for stupid stuff and you want compete and win at a high level.
The goal is to strike a balance. You want to graduate kids and not be in news for stupid stuff and you want compete and win at a high level.
Posted on 8/1/24 at 4:31 pm to Smokey Okie
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stupid people are better football players
Holy shite Stephen must be an All American
Posted on 8/1/24 at 4:33 pm to Smokey Okie
So people talk about the down side to.mental illness or not being well adjusted, which is the goal of mental health is for people to adjust and fit in, not carrying allows for the egos of people to be really good at certain things, sports, politics, ceos etc.... a little narcissim and sociopathic ways tends to put people in the penthouse or prison.
Posted on 8/1/24 at 4:34 pm to Smokey Okie
Why are idiots better at a sport where they effectively turn their bodies into weapons and risk life altering injury on every play? Great question
Posted on 8/1/24 at 4:35 pm to Smokey Okie
Reuben Foster says hi
Posted on 8/1/24 at 4:37 pm to Quicksilver
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Why are idiots better at a sport where they effectively turn their bodies into weapons and risk life altering injury on every play? Great question
So smart players, that attend colleges with high academic standards, don't fully engage in the game of football because they are scared of injury?
This post was edited on 8/1/24 at 4:38 pm
Posted on 8/1/24 at 4:39 pm to Smokey Okie
quote:Whoever assumes this hasn’t spent much time around NFL players. There are always freak athlete exceptions, but pro football’s generally a high IQ sport.
It is widely assumed that stupid people are better football players than intelligent people. Why is this?
Posted on 8/1/24 at 4:40 pm to jangalang
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Reuben Foster says hi
Kenny and David Irons could not count to five and stated they didn't know what numbers or letters were.
Posted on 8/1/24 at 4:43 pm to BevoBucks
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Whoever assumes this hasn’t spent much time around NFL players. There are always freak athlete exceptions, but pro football’s generally a high IQ sport.
Okay. You are saying that only the most intellectually developed players from college reach the NFL.
I hadn't considered this.
Posted on 8/1/24 at 4:44 pm to Smokey Okie
For this generation kids with less resources play outside more compared to a suburb area, and then football/athletics is the ticket for income. If they’ve had to fight a lot with others/domestic stuff then there’s no hesitation for aggression.
I remember those highschool football bus rides to a sketchy part in Houston like Northshore or Hightower and thinking these kids are playing for jobs lol.
Players/familes are still recruited in those sketch areas and paid to move from schools like Katy, The Woodland. Happens everywhere in Dallas/Austin and I’m sure in Florida too.
I remember those highschool football bus rides to a sketchy part in Houston like Northshore or Hightower and thinking these kids are playing for jobs lol.
Players/familes are still recruited in those sketch areas and paid to move from schools like Katy, The Woodland. Happens everywhere in Dallas/Austin and I’m sure in Florida too.
Posted on 8/1/24 at 4:44 pm to Smokey Okie
The smartest people don't play football...
They just post on message boards and watch stupid people play football.
They just post on message boards and watch stupid people play football.
Posted on 8/1/24 at 4:44 pm to Smokey Okie
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Kenny and David Irons could not count to five and stated they didn't know what numbers or letters were.
You also made up the Heisman roots.
#NotShocking
Posted on 8/1/24 at 4:45 pm to Smokey Okie
Widely assumed by whom? I've never heard that.
Posted on 8/1/24 at 4:48 pm to Smokey Okie
quote:Absolutely. If a guy can’t study film and immediately comprehend/apply corrections on the fly, he better be one of the best athletes on the field. And, sometimes even that’s not enough.
Okay. You are saying that only the most intellectually developed players from college reach the NFL.
The other guys are just too good and the calls and concepts are too complex. One of your own, Will Anderson, is a great example of the kind of intelligence it takes to succeed in the League.
Posted on 8/1/24 at 4:56 pm to DownOnWashington
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For this generation kids with less resources play outside more compared to a suburb area, and then football/athletics is the ticket for income. If they’ve had to fight a lot with others/domestic stuff then there’s no hesitation for aggression.
I remember those highschool football bus rides to a sketchy part in Houston like Northshore or Hightower and thinking these kids are playing for jobs lol.
Players/familes are still recruited in those sketch areas and paid to move from schools like Katy, The Woodland. Happens everywhere in Dallas/Austin and I’m sure in Florida too.
That's something to consider and a very good point.
Maybe that is why genuinely poor and destitute players in times past, not what we consider poor today, were so tough. Just as an example, since I am an Alabama fan, let's consider Bear Bryant. He came from horrible desperation and abject poverty that saw him and his mother selling vegetables on the side of the road out of the back of a horse and buggy rig. Many of the more "well to do" kids of the time turned their nose up at him and his kind.
He didn't have shoes to wear, literally didn't own a pair of shoes, when Bama recruiters drove up to get him from Moro Bottom.
He was a great college football player though and even took the field with a completely broken leg.
I think your theory is the best one I've seen proposed so far.
This post was edited on 8/1/24 at 4:59 pm
Posted on 8/1/24 at 5:00 pm to CharlotteSooner
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Widely assumed by whom? I've never heard that.
You've never encountered the argument that teams which belong to schools with low academic standards somehow have a great advantage over those with high standards?
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