Why is Dennis Dodd making an issue of Malcolm Gladwell's comment on football?

There's no way to eliminate concussions from ANY sport.

But, yeah, football is the only dangerous sport out there...

 

It is by far the most dangerous in that regard. Not even close.

 

But not the only one. Despite what many idiots say.

 

I don't know of anyone who has said any such thing.

As I said, take away the header. Problem solved for soccer. I think it will happen.

So what about football then? Or do we just need to concentrate on all the stuff that doesn't do nearly as much damage and leave football alone?

 

Any link as to where and when that actually happened? We'll wait.

 

January 1999, it was actually the director of the DC mayor's office of constituent services. He immediately realized the problem when he saw co-workers' faces and he apologized, but rumors nonetheless started that he had dropped the bomb, and he resigned.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/local/daily/jan99/district27.htm

A week later, after it was pointed out that, you know, English language and all, he was offered his job back, and he agreed to return to the government offices but in another capacity:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/local/longterm/williams/williams020499.htm

 

So, a) 14 years ago, and b) in the end, nothing substantial really happened.

 

I am not sure what we're talking about. I said this dispute over the word "ghettoize" reminded me of a dispute over the word "niggardly." That's really all I said. Honest. It's there in the posts and everything.

You doubted that it happened. I posted the links that showed it did happen. I guess I had lost track of it and didn't know he had gotten his job back, but I do remember him losing his job. (Which he, in fact, did. For a week he was unemployed, and after that he moved to a different job.)

I wouldn't even know what we are arguing about, but you can continue to argue if you like. However, there was indeed a controversy over the word "niggardly" within the Washington D.C. mayor's office.

 

I feel like I should get a royalty now whenever someone uses "narrative".

If a HS football player gets a concussion in the opening week of the season, does he deserve a sympathetic NY Times profile?

 

Can you at least give him a little credit for the quick response, with a link, to back up his post.

Oop would have been more generous.

 

Gladwell's argument falls short in the area that I live. Between grades 3 and 8 there are 450 kids playing and between
grades 9 and 12 there are 90 players.

 

Damn, Starman, you're (usually) better than this. Weak sauce, man, weak sauce ...

Just a little while after the DC incident, Wisconsin opened an inquiry into an English professor's use of the word ... while teaching Chaucer ... who'd used the word in the work the professor was teaching.

http://reason.com/archives/1999/07/01/cracking-the-speech-code