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A football career would be out of bounds for any son of President Obama, who compared the game to smoking in an interview with The New Yorker.
“I would not let my son play pro football,” the First Fan said in a POTUS profile for the magazine’s Jan. 27 issue.
The president’s love of sports is well documented, and his favorite NFL team is the Chicago Bears. And while football’s escalating head-injury crisis is reason enough to keep a kid he doesn’t have off the field, it’s no reason to stop watching, he told Remnick.
“At this point, there’s a little bit of caveat emptor,” Obama said of NFL athletes. “These guys, they know what they’re doing. They know what they’re buying into. It is no longer a secret. It’s sort of the feeling I have about smokers, you know?”
The President’s position on concussion-related injuries and deaths in football appears to have evolved — at least as far as his imaginary offspring are concerned. Before last year’s Super Bowl he told The New Republic, “I’m a big football fan, but I have to tell you if I had a son, I’d have to think long and hard before I let him play football. And I think that those of us who love the sport are going to have to wrestle with the fact that it will probably change gradually to try to reduce some of the violence.”
Those comments last year drew a mixed reaction, with Baltimore Ravens safety Ed Reed agreeing, and San Francisco 49ers head coach Jim Harbaugh joking that his infant son, Jack, would grow up kick butt in the president’s kinder-gentler NFL.
His latest remarks were quickly flagged on Twitter, with commenters ribbing him for the smoking comparison, the imaginary son and for dissing the NFL after the league agreed to help promote Obamacare.
http://nypost.com/2014/01/19/i-would-not-let-my-son-play-pro-football-obama/
If Obama had a son he would more likely turn out somewhere between Steve Urkel and Ethan Krupp (a.k.a. the Pajama Boy)...
“I would not let my son play pro football,” the First Fan said in a POTUS profile for the magazine’s Jan. 27 issue.
The president’s love of sports is well documented, and his favorite NFL team is the Chicago Bears. And while football’s escalating head-injury crisis is reason enough to keep a kid he doesn’t have off the field, it’s no reason to stop watching, he told Remnick.
“At this point, there’s a little bit of caveat emptor,” Obama said of NFL athletes. “These guys, they know what they’re doing. They know what they’re buying into. It is no longer a secret. It’s sort of the feeling I have about smokers, you know?”
The President’s position on concussion-related injuries and deaths in football appears to have evolved — at least as far as his imaginary offspring are concerned. Before last year’s Super Bowl he told The New Republic, “I’m a big football fan, but I have to tell you if I had a son, I’d have to think long and hard before I let him play football. And I think that those of us who love the sport are going to have to wrestle with the fact that it will probably change gradually to try to reduce some of the violence.”
Those comments last year drew a mixed reaction, with Baltimore Ravens safety Ed Reed agreeing, and San Francisco 49ers head coach Jim Harbaugh joking that his infant son, Jack, would grow up kick butt in the president’s kinder-gentler NFL.
His latest remarks were quickly flagged on Twitter, with commenters ribbing him for the smoking comparison, the imaginary son and for dissing the NFL after the league agreed to help promote Obamacare.
http://nypost.com/2014/01/19/i-would-not-let-my-son-play-pro-football-obama/
If Obama had a son he would more likely turn out somewhere between Steve Urkel and Ethan Krupp (a.k.a. the Pajama Boy)...
