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I don't think I feel football players are courageous.
Courageous acts are serving your country, telling the truth even if it makes you look bad, pointing out a bosses' mistake, etc...
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05-02-2006, 01:03 PM
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Originally Posted by Golferdow01
I don't think I feel football players are courageous.
Courageous acts are serving your country, telling the truth even if it makes you look bad, pointing out a bosses' mistake, etc...
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Go ahead, say it... golfing, etc.
It takes balls to go golfing. |
05-02-2006, 01:21 PM
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Originally Posted by StooGrimson
Eh, the activities you mention may require courage (and stupidity depending on the challenge) if you've never done them before, but if you've constantly trained and developed the necessary skills to do them, I see no courage needed.
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so if teddy ginn trains for a lifetime to play WR and makes it to the pros, it takes zero courage to go over the middle with sean taylor waiting for him?
nobody is saying he deserves a medal of honor for going over the middle, but to say it requires no courage is asanine.
Otherwise, I'd love for tibor to field a punt with Chudmeat flying towards him.
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05-02-2006, 01:33 PM
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but to say it requires no courage is asanine.
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05-02-2006, 02:07 PM
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Originally Posted by Chudmeat
Go ahead, say it... golfing, etc.
It takes balls to go golfing.
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Balls yes, courage, no. 
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05-02-2006, 02:55 PM
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Originally Posted by jwinslow
so if teddy ginn trains for a lifetime to play WR and makes it to the pros, it takes zero courage to go over the middle with sean taylor waiting for him?
nobody is saying he deserves a medal of honor for going over the middle, but to say it requires no courage is asanine.
Otherwise, I'd love for tibor to field a punt with Chudmeat flying towards him.
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I would use the terms 'guts' or 'balls' to describe something like that. By the strictest definition of the word 'courage', yes, it can take a degree of 'courage'. Then again a professional wrestler leaping off of a top rope onto a table has a far more likely chance of being hurt. Is that courageous? Eh, once again, I can say 'yes' by the strictest interpretation, but it's a slap in the face to people who really are brave and courageous. I happen to think that applying it to someone who is playing a game and knows he's going to take a shot cheapens the word and is an insult to those who exhibit real courage.
BTW...I've had to field punts with people coming to flatten me ( few times I was nailed pretty badly) and never thought it took any courage on my part to do my job.
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05-02-2006, 03:10 PM
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It's simply a continuum.
Doing nothing < Facing your average workday < Throwing the ball with a linebacker about to knock you silly < The linebacker is Hawk < Running into a burning building to save someone
I'd also say the level of courage in any task is a f | |
