vikings/nfl

As long as players blood is on the field and not the fans they will continue to come. What has to happen is change the nature of the game. Not more kickoffs, and punt returns. Better equipment, expanded roster and players only play a certain amount of plays per game. If a player makes an illegal hit he stay out as long as the injured players is out plus his lose of salary. A lot of changes like this will help without losing fans.

If the league is really sincere, Goodell should prove it by renouncing the ludicrous 18-game season proposal. That'd be a good start. Mike Ditka suggested returning the league to leather helmets ... I'm on the fence with that one, though I must admit I'd be the first guy in line for tix to a leather helmet exhibition between two quality NFL teams. Can you imagine Matt Kalil in a leather helmet???

Yet another reason not to build a new football stadium. Skol to living healthy and within our means.

we just might to hold off building that stadium.

This is all so rediculous. Want millions of dollars? Risk your health to play a violent game. Health more important than money? Then don't play - NOBODY IS FORCING YOU TO. But you can't have it both ways. To pretend you're too naive to know that is a joke.

By the time the Metrodome Version 2.0 is built, players will be banking a couple million for one or two years' risk, sliding into tacklers like QB's do, and then quickly retiring to Florida, Texas, or Cali. How much more will a ticket, beer, and hot dog cost in the near future to pay for all of the upcoming lawyer fees? The billionaire owners WILL pass those expenses on to its loyal fans unless Vikings player #12 (Dayton) gives away more free tax money via some loophole that city attorney Susan Segal conjures-up and discusses in a laughable memo. And sorry Percy but talk to Wilf about giving away your jersey number.

"SqUaReD80: This is all so rediculous. Want millions of dollars? Risk your health to play a violent game." ---- Q: How much health did Wilf, Goodell, Rooney, Dayton, Rybak and others risk? A: None! They did succeed, however, in risking the financial health of this state for all 5.3 million of its members.

How much health did Wilf, Goodell, Rooney, Dayton, Rybak and others risk? A: None! ---get over it. Grown men understand the risk of playing football for a high salary.

'NFL faces and image - damage contrast' ... until I read through the article I just assumed the 'image - damage contrast' ONLY had to do with the ethics of extorting money from communities to pay for their places of business/football stadia... and now I come to find they actually don't care about the health of their employees either!

Even if it no longer official policy of some NFL teams to disable opposing players football will always have the underlying benefit of injuring people, just like in rugby, boxing, hockey and, yes sadly soccer. It is part of the goal of football to overpower the opponent regardless of the physical damage. This behavior will continue to lead to brain damage, crippling limb damage including paralysis and… occasionally… death. One could argue the participants are willing victims. Players are offered a substantial reward for their risk. Some will argue that the paralysis of a minority from the inner city deserves his wheelchair having chosen to spin the roulette wheel. However, I am saddened by the blood lust heard in the roar of the crowd for each crippling hit and I think such encouragement of this behavior does our children and our society no good. I feel most fail to appreciate the parallels to gladiator events of ancient Rome, an abhorrence still romanticized. Upon deep reflection the gladiator events are mind boggling disgusting. Several hundred years from now our NFL should expect similar accounting: romantic, barbaric and stupid. Let’s not support this with our tax dollars.