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Taser touch football
Safe. Fun. Manly. American.
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Football is dangerous - people collide with each other and with the ground, and pads notwithstanding, they are hurt - sometimes crippled. Football fans like the strategery involved - so why not touch football? Clearly, violence is part of the appeal.

I propose taser touch football. Players would carry tasers and the ball carrier would be tased instead of tackled. Blocking would be the same - no grabbing, so no tasing. Getting tased hurts, but a perusal of youtube will show many taser parties and inebriated, giggling men tasing one another with no seious ill effects.. Getting tased is safer than physically tackling and subduing a person, which is why tasers help cops kill fewer people. TT football would retain the strategy and substitute a safer form of violence.


bungston, Nov 17 2007

Is the Taser safer? A topical issue. http://www.cbc.ca/c...1/15/rnc-taser.html
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       Does offense get tasers too? I mean, uh, just in case somebody fumbles the ball, which would probably happen every single play.

quantum_flux, Nov 19 2007
  


 
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