Heads Up is something they are pumping out thru the media now and is a program where they are teaching kids all ages new tackling techniques. They have been showing different places near training camps and how the heads up camps have been going. Eddie was out there with the kids with someone else from the cardinals helping out. Good segment. If I can find it out on the interwebs I'll post it.
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Nothing against promoting safety while playing football, but I feel like this is somewhat similar to telling kids not to screen look while playing N64 GoldenEye split screen. Just because you're not suppose to do it probably won't stop you in the heat of the moment to get that kill shot, especially if it gives you an unfair advantage.
(Gif not exactly the point I was making, but seemed somewhat relevant)
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Although the heads up and safety in football was part of the segment the only reason I stopped as I finished watching some show on DVR is that I saw Eddie on there. I'm sure it will take decades until anything they are teaching now becomes the standard for College and NFL Tackling. At any rate. I mentioned it more for the VT alum sighting than the content of the Heads Up program.
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Its interesting to see how far safety has come in football, especially in the last decade. My old roommate in college worked with the VT/Wake joint program researching helmet impact a couple seasons ago trying to design newer ways to protect from collisions. On the other side of the spectrum, a coworker of mine firmly believes American football will cease completely in 15 years due to a combination of rising safety concern and declining interest in a watered down/restricted version of the game's evolution by that time.
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I've already abandoned the NFL. I spend all Saturday every fall weekend watching as much college football as I can, so Sunday is chore day. I like the college game better anyway. I wasn't sure why until I heard Verne Lundquist say something along the lines of, "The players are just good enough to do something spectacular but not good enough to be sure something won't go against them spectacularly". I think he said it at the end of the UGA/Auburn game last year.
Now, having just watched every World Cup game, and being tired of paying the cable company for much less value than I'm getting in cable services, I'm beginning to think that even college football will fall off the map a bit for me. I won't have cable during this football season at all, so who knows how I'll get my college football.
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I wouldn't necessarily say that less attendance = less interest.. big screen TVs and increased ticket prices keep a lot of people at home watching the games.. TV ratings have remained strong
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That's true, but at some point the business model fails. Sure, there are sweet TV deals out there, but the revenue generated from butts in seats (tickets, parking, concessions, merchandise) is what drives everything. We're nowhere close to that being a serious problem right now, but in theory, if people just stop showing up (or show up in very small numbers), for how long is the whole thing going to survive? This is all hypothetical, of course, and I don't necessarily buy into the thought that football will cease from the earth (the state of Alabama will literally have nothing going for it at that point), but there could conceivably be very real revenue problems in the not-too-distant future.
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I bet people said the same thing when they outlawed the flying wedge. Football will be fine with the new emphasis on head injuries, the Seahawks D is proof of that to me.
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Our Oddjob rule was if you chose him, everyone else got to punch you as hard as they wanted for 10 seconds before the game started. I believe we did the same with picking proximity mines. If anyone picked proximity mines + Oddjob, we restarted with someone else in control.
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hah... I loved proximity mines. Throw them on an ammo crate and then pick up the ammo. Crate would reappear with the mine hidden inside it. Used to piss off ALL my friends.
That, and with remote mines, you could press A&B together while one was in the air, and it would immediately detonate.
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Remote mines were fun. There's at least an element of skill there. Proximity mines were hilarious as long as you were winning, otherwise everyone (at least in my group of friends) just hated you.
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Did you ever get a chance to play Goldeneye 007 Reloaded for the PS3/XBox360?
It wasn't really well known, but a surprisingly good game. It was a rethinking of the movie, with new characters (Daniel Craig as Bond) and a slight twist on the Goldeneye theme. I REALLY enjoyed the game, but nobody really knew about it.
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lol no... I didn't know enough of the game to remember all the respawn points, but some of my friends did. Was frustrating, but funny to watch yourself die multiple times in a row with absolutely nothing you could do.
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Sounds like how I was last time I played. Except I also keep shooting and missing everyone. My K:D ratio was like 1:50. Wish I could blame it on the bourbon, but everyone else was also drinking.
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Speaking of former VT guys.
Pete Damilatis @PFF_Pete 9m
Not a good night at all for Jayron Hosley. Throw in the 4-game suspension, and I doubt he makes the Giants final roster.
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I didn't see it and don't know what the Heads Up segment is. Were they calling him out for being a sleeper or was he in the booth or what
Heads Up is something they are pumping out thru the media now and is a program where they are teaching kids all ages new tackling techniques. They have been showing different places near training camps and how the heads up camps have been going. Eddie was out there with the kids with someone else from the cardinals helping out. Good segment. If I can find it out on the interwebs I'll post it.
Ohhhh right! The program to teach kids how to play football safely. Got it, thanks.
Nothing against promoting safety while playing football, but I feel like this is somewhat similar to telling kids not to screen look while playing N64 GoldenEye split screen. Just because you're not suppose to do it probably won't stop you in the heat of the moment to get that kill shot, especially if it gives you an unfair advantage.
(Gif not exactly the point I was making, but seemed somewhat relevant)
Although the heads up and safety in football was part of the segment the only reason I stopped as I finished watching some show on DVR is that I saw Eddie on there. I'm sure it will take decades until anything they are teaching now becomes the standard for College and NFL Tackling. At any rate. I mentioned it more for the VT alum sighting than the content of the Heads Up program.
Its interesting to see how far safety has come in football, especially in the last decade. My old roommate in college worked with the VT/Wake joint program researching helmet impact a couple seasons ago trying to design newer ways to protect from collisions. On the other side of the spectrum, a coworker of mine firmly believes American football will cease completely in 15 years due to a combination of rising safety concern and declining interest in a watered down/restricted version of the game's evolution by that time.
WOAH. I don't even want to think about a world without football. I have no idea what I would do with myself.
Life without football:
I've already abandoned the NFL. I spend all Saturday every fall weekend watching as much college football as I can, so Sunday is chore day. I like the college game better anyway. I wasn't sure why until I heard Verne Lundquist say something along the lines of, "The players are just good enough to do something spectacular but not good enough to be sure something won't go against them spectacularly". I think he said it at the end of the UGA/Auburn game last year.
Now, having just watched every World Cup game, and being tired of paying the cable company for much less value than I'm getting in cable services, I'm beginning to think that even college football will fall off the map a bit for me. I won't have cable during this football season at all, so who knows how I'll get my college football.
The same way the rest of us Hokies without cable do: VTPhreak
Bless him
The bar or a friends house?
Ah yes, those are options.
Is there really a decline in interest though? People keep saying it, but I always see fans everywhere.
Attendance at both the pro and college levels has been declining steadily for several years.
I wouldn't necessarily say that less attendance = less interest.. big screen TVs and increased ticket prices keep a lot of people at home watching the games.. TV ratings have remained strong
That's true, but at some point the business model fails. Sure, there are sweet TV deals out there, but the revenue generated from butts in seats (tickets, parking, concessions, merchandise) is what drives everything. We're nowhere close to that being a serious problem right now, but in theory, if people just stop showing up (or show up in very small numbers), for how long is the whole thing going to survive? This is all hypothetical, of course, and I don't necessarily buy into the thought that football will cease from the earth (the state of Alabama will literally have nothing going for it at that point), but there could conceivably be very real revenue problems in the not-too-distant future.
I bet people said the same thing when they outlawed the flying wedge. Football will be fine with the new emphasis on head injuries, the Seahawks D is proof of that to me.
More like using Oddjob when it a very well known unwritten rule that NOBODY USES ODDJOB.
The first rule of Oddjob.....
...you don't use Oddjob.
Our Oddjob rule was if you chose him, everyone else got to punch you as hard as they wanted for 10 seconds before the game started. I believe we did the same with picking proximity mines. If anyone picked proximity mines + Oddjob, we restarted with someone else in control.
hah... I loved proximity mines. Throw them on an ammo crate and then pick up the ammo. Crate would reappear with the mine hidden inside it. Used to piss off ALL my friends.
That, and with remote mines, you could press A&B together while one was in the air, and it would immediately detonate.
Remote mines were fun. There's at least an element of skill there. Proximity mines were hilarious as long as you were winning, otherwise everyone (at least in my group of friends) just hated you.
Did you ever get a chance to play Goldeneye 007 Reloaded for the PS3/XBox360?
It wasn't really well known, but a surprisingly good game. It was a rethinking of the movie, with new characters (Daniel Craig as Bond) and a slight twist on the Goldeneye theme. I REALLY enjoyed the game, but nobody really knew about it.
I'll serve as evidence to your point: I have never heard of it until this moment.
You were the guy who put proximity mines at the reappear points so that I lost half my energy immediately upon re-entering the game, weren't you?
For the record, Grenade launcher was my fave. Nothing like bouncing a grenade off a wall.
SLAPPERS ONLY!!!
lol no... I didn't know enough of the game to remember all the respawn points, but some of my friends did. Was frustrating, but funny to watch yourself die multiple times in a row with absolutely nothing you could do.
Sounds like how I was last time I played. Except I also keep shooting and missing everyone. My K:D ratio was like 1:50. Wish I could blame it on the bourbon, but everyone else was also drinking.
Speaking of former VT guys.
Pete Damilatis @PFF_Pete 9m
Not a good night at all for Jayron Hosley. Throw in the 4-game suspension, and I doubt he makes the Giants final roster.
I think it's great that Whitley is getting press on this stuff. But (an unpopular question) does anybody really think he's making the final roster?
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