Cleared the gene pool.

CNN? Is CNN still on the air?

Not particularly interested in football.

To me, it´s just ritualized war, for those too cowardly to participate in a real war, or for those who watch it and are too cowardly to even participate in a ritual war.

No relationship to manhood whatsoever.

Sorry to the fans. Don´t waste your time with it when you could be contributing to society in a meaningful way.

The author wants men to express themselves more. But probably doesn´t want to hear what other men really want to say.
Society is (IMO) pushing more and more people to suicide due to the smothering straightjacket of political correctness.

I´m gathering the author thinks men should be taught to be more like women and this kind of thing wouldn´t happen. Just the kind of thing you would expect out of CNN.

Get over yourself, #3.

...first it was the gun. Now it´s manliness. We certainly cannot discuss the thug lifestyle of so many of these football players, both before and after the checks start rolling in. He stays out all night with another woman, comes home, fights with his girlfriend and shoots her? That´s a product of manliness? Just wow.

A few articles above this speaks of the future of "boys of color" in the public school system. One thing NOT mentioned in that article is the absence of fathers. The natural vaccuum for a young male mind is powerful, and will attach to anything resembling a father figure. Unfortunately for young blacks, that is all too often the "thugs" in hiphop culture. Bombarded daily by images of men quick to violence, using women as toys, and the idea that gettin money is all that matters, it is no wonder that these types of tragedies occur.

Good answer #6, you beat me to it. I suppose that when we are all proper little metrosexuals, then the world will be a better place.

Ad hominem attacks are the weakest form of argument and are usually used when the respondent does not have a more reasoned rebuttal for a point they know is true at a deep level and which is at variance with their long held view. Peel back the layers of the onion and that´s what you find at the core.

Oh, and have a nice day!

He was an angry black man, an athlete with mental or emotional problems, and a gun in his had. What would you expect to happen.

That damned gun is responsible for the horrendous carnage. Ban guns.

If guns were banned, we would have no more black-on-black shootings in Chicago, Detroit, Watts, Philly, Camden, Houston, Miami, DC, and dozens of other places around the country.

I find my ´manliness´ at it´s height when I am stroking my daughter´s forehead to put her to sleep.

And I also enjoy the unbridled passion that is football. I feel sorry for those who ´feel´ the need to denigrate other´s pursuits/joys in order to sustain their own facade of ´manliness´.

Oh, and erudtion will not conceal the fact that you resemble a sphincter.

Oh, and BTW? You can meet me near Ft. DIx, NJ or my brother near Litle Creek, VA.

If you got the guts.

#9 Perhaps you misunderstand.

Not a call for metrosexuality. A call for true masculinity. Perhaps all college football players should also be enrolled in an ROTC program or equivalent social service; perhaps all professional football players ought to be members of the National Guard at least, or equivalent social service.

At a certain level, for professional football, you have young men who are bought and sold for the value of their extreme labor. When they are sufficiently physically damaged, they are discarded. Buying and selling young men for their physical labor? Kind of like . . . Slavery?

My response to you #10, has little to do with emotion, and I would suspect the same goes as well for #6´s response (and more to do with lack of respect). This nation was built and became properous on the backs of aggressive and competitive men. Additionally, all have enjoyed the opportunity to be free under the protection of equally aggressive, competitive and, at times, violent men. I have participated in both your so-called "ritualistic" and "real" wars, and tend to have more respect and trust in thoses that have as well. You can keep your smugness to yourself. Sorry lucianne.com, however, in a world spinning rapidly out of control, some things really irritate me.

I personally find, as a rule, that rabid professional football fans are brutal and stupid. This is very handy. It´s a negative sort for who I choose to hang out with. Calling folks out for a physical confrontation only underscores the point. Hang with who you wish, just not me.

IMO, Professional Football is completely different from High School Football, and sort of different from Collegiate Football. High School and Collegiate Football at those age levels can teach discipline and teamwork, and prepare young men for useful lives.

IMO, Professional Football has more to do with Tribalism and Brutality and Gambling and the High Finance of the Buying and Selling of Human Beings.

IMO, Professional Football serves to distract the lower classes from Local, State and National government and political manuevers that are working against their interests. So many people would rather go to a football game than attend a city council meeting, and the city councilors like that just fine, so they can determine your future without your input. This also happens at the State government level.

Check who owns the Sky Boxes and who attends the games. Think how much wheeling and dealing goes on in the Sky Boxes, often while ignoring the game itself, and watching the sweating masses in the dirty T-shirts in the cheaper seats.

Try to post a reasoned contrary view instead of a personal attack.

Oh, and have a nice day!

#3, you could earn a PhD writing a thesis about your discovery that no veterans of combat or former players have ever enjoyed watching football.

IMO: #9& 15 makes good points, and I agree with them more than I disagree. I even think that the U.S. Naval Academy Football program serves a good and valued service.

Just not professional football. It´s a different animal. A different, violent, thuggish, Animal game.

I believe we´ve been invaded by trolls on this post.

Many more people are killed by automobiles than by guns. So should we then ban automobiles?

Real Men don´t walk out on their families and children, leaving them to be "raised" in fatherless families to become social misfits, felons and predators. Eliminate that little urban problem and a lot of others will miraculously disappear.

You can bet steroids and head injuries were involved here.
Wrestler Chris Benoit killed his family with his bare hands.

#19 I had to scroll back to the top to make sure I was on the correct page.

#11 Most of the cities you listed prohibit guns.

Oh my, #3; what´s eating you, dude? I played football from pee-wee through high school. It was FUN! After high school, I became a Marine. It was a different kind of fun, but I really liked it. Took up skydiving (now that was really fun). I still do it every chance I get. I never really thought about why I did these things. Just looking for challenge and adventure, I suppose. I guess in your estimation I am a coward. Whatever. Men do not spend a lot of time analyzing their manliness. We just do what we do. If that means some poindexter riding a keyboard in his mom´s basement thinks they are cowards, well, there it is.

Real masculinity is rarely seen. ANYWHERE! The churches and the secular world are full of boys playing grownup men. One hallmark of true masculinity is NEVER being violent towards women in any way. Athletes tend to be the least true masculine men on the planet.

I apologize for the double post, but consider this: nobody was ever killed before guns came along, right?

IMO: #24: Semper Fi to you and yours! It is not possible to use MARINE. And coward. in the same sentence.

I imagine your school years football helped make you the man you are, and the Marines confirmed that you are a Man.

I am also very glad that you joined the Finest Fighting Force on the Face of the Planet.

. . . And that you did not become a professional football player.

ALot of hormones raging on this thread. Paging Dr. Phil...

The man obviously had serious issues...where was the intervention, everyone that knew him knew full well he was very self destructive...

Liberalism, when you need something immediate they take years, when they want your money they take it in an instant!

#20 - Banning automobiles:
No more drive by shootings.
No more drunk drivers.
No more automobile thefts.
No more automobile collisions.
Fifty thousand lives saved every year.
No more red light runners.
No need for red lights.
No more photo cameras.
No more drive thru fast food places.
No more jay walking tickets.
No more parking meters.

and on, and on, and on

See, banning automobiles is a good thing.

OK, #16 I´ll try a less confrontational way......Dude, is a banana ever just a banana to you?

Get a hobby, other than telling people what they like is stupid.

I see where the Heisman trophy is going.

I won´t attend another NFL game, at least not with my wife or kids, but it´s because of all of the obnoxious drunks in the stands. I´d feel safer on the sidelines.

Thank the Lord for NFL RedZone.

My main question that no one is touching is, "How much steroid use was he experiencing?" You do not get a body like that with just normal work out. He was using, like all the rest of the super athletes and not a word in the media- it´s all about destroying the 2nd amendment. Just another useful moment for the lefties to use to disarm the citizens.

#33 - Same here but for a different reason: ticket prices.

Sad to say, there are pampered thugs in the NFL. Not many, but enough to tarnish it.

Oh golly, where to start... #16 - instead of complaining about football neanderthals, please edumacate us rabid Cro-Magnons on the virtues of rainbows, unicorns, daisys and bird-watching...

Another sad story of black on black crime.

If this young man had been raised in a two parent home by a mature loving mother and father, he might have made a different decision than to kill himself and his wife.

These uncontrolled rage based or motivated murders happen every day in black communities in all the big cities. In general the so-called main-stream media does not have much to say about all that due to political correctness.

In that respect, it is very hard to find any black person who will publicly criticize another black person, no matter what serious crimes the perpetrator has committed. When blacks speak out, almost always they are pitching some number of social excuses rather then holding the perpetrator of the crime responsible for his or her own criminal actions. This article is but one example of that.

There are many millions of people all over the USA who own, and possess, all sorts of firearms, but they don´t murder a person because they get in some sort of argument with the victim over issues that most rational people would forget after having a good night sleep.