What is the motivation...........

[poddster]

.........that compels people to attend major league football games at a stadium in their thousands?

[lurker172602]

The problem I have with the ridiculous argument that golf clubs or knives or legs of lamb can also be used to inflict lethal harm is that that is not their primary purpose. Shooting and killing things was not the reason for their invention.

btw I'm a bit cranky because the bloody Waratahs and Craig Joubert beat my Brumbies 😞

[poddster]

Rosie, i can assure you that the paper target is not in any way in pain, it is still smiling and even commented  🙂

[the*scarlet*pimpernel]

off the top of my head I can think of two occasions where people have been killed whilst participating in the sport of shooting.

I can't really think of any footballers killed playing football. Not saying there hasn't been any, but nothing springs to mind

[village_person]

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@poddster wrote:

VP have you elected yourself as my spokesman?

What pray tell is The Wild Thing?

Who is Daly?

By the way I have more respect for cameras, mine or anyone else's, throwing them anywhere 🙂

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And there I was thinking you were a golf fan. John Daly goes by the sobriquet of The Wild Thing. It's none other than this John Daly:

After bad round, Daly loses temper and smashes spectator's camera

SYDNEY, Australia -- John Daly smashed a spectator's camera into a tree while shooting a 6-over 78 in the first round of the Australian Open on Thursday, making it likely he will miss the cut for the third consecutive week Down Under.

After pushing his tee shot wide on the ninth hole -- his last -- Daly walked into a clump of trees, where spectator Brad Clegg tried to take a picture at close range.

Daly snatched the camera and smashed it against the nearest tree, telling the man, "You want it back, I'll buy you a new one."

http://sports.espn.go.com/golf/news/story?id=3761316

[poddster]

AIHW National Injury Surveillance Unit

􀁹 Research Centre for Injury Studies 􀁹 Flinders University 􀁹 South Australia

　

Hospitalised football injuries 2004–05

Geoff Henley

September 2007

Key findings

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In 2004–05, there were 14,147 hospitalisations resulting from injuries received while playing some form of football. This represented 30.6% of all sports and leisure-related hospitalisations during this period.

• Australian football accounted for 30.3%, soccer for 24.0% and rugby for 20.7% of all football-related hospitalisations.

• Overall, 44.3% of all those hospitalised for football-related injuries were aged 15–24 years, while 90.3% of those hospitalised were aged 34 years or younger.

• Males accounted for 93.2% of all football-related hospitalisations.

• Knee and lower leg and head were the most common regions injured, accounting for 47.9% of all hospitalisations.

• Fractures were by far the most common type of injury requiring hospitalisation, accounting for 55.6% of all admissions.

• Over one-third (36.6%) of all injuries were due to some sort of fall while another 26.4% were due to some form of contact with another person

• The highest number of admissions occurred during May (18.1%) with 72% of all admissions occurring in the period from April to August.

• The mean number of bed days for all hospitalisations due to football-related injuries was 1.85 days.

• The estimated direct cost of football-related hospitalisations was close to $44 million.

[poddster]

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@village_person wrote:

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@poddster wrote:

VP have you elected yourself as my spokesman?

What pray tell is The Wild Thing?

Who is Daly?

By the way I have more respect for cameras, mine or anyone else's, throwing them anywhere 🙂

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And there I was thinking you were a golf fan. John Daly goes by the sobriquet of The Wild Thing. It's none other than this John Daly:

After bad round, Daly loses temper and smashes spectator's camera

SYDNEY, Australia -- John Daly smashed a spectator's camera into a tree while shooting a 6-over 78 in the first round of the Australian Open on Thursday, making it likely he will miss the cut for the third consecutive week Down Under.

After pushing his tee shot wide on the ninth hole -- his last -- Daly walked into a clump of trees, where spectator Brad Clegg tried to take a picture at close range.

Daly snatched the camera and smashed it against the nearest tree, telling the man, "You want it back, I'll buy you a new one."

http://sports.espn.go.com/golf/news/story?id=3761316

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I must write that name down, He would not be welcome at our club, he sounds like a 10 knickle dragger

[myoclon1cjerk]

My chosen sport is Whist and there are no deaths recorded,ever. 🙂

[the*scarlet*pimpernel]

30% of sports injuries are footy related. Didn't see any deaths mentioned.

[lionrose.7]

I could say Balls dont kill people. people do, People with GUNS

[lurker172602]

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@lionrose.7 wrote:

I could say Balls dont kill people.

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Oh there's so much material there