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Marshall Faulk doesn’t want a safer game

this is a discussion within the NFL Community Forum; “It’s pretty simple for me,” Faulk said. “Player safety is ‘Go play golf. Go play basketball where they call fouls for slapping you on the hand.’ … But it’s football. I hope guys get to play longer and there aren’t ...

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Old 06-09-2012, 09:31 PM   #1
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“It’s pretty simple for me,” Faulk said. “Player safety is ‘Go play golf. Go play basketball where they call fouls for slapping you on the hand.’ … But it’s football. I hope guys get to play longer and there aren’t as many injuries as there were in the past. But I’m sorry, it is a contact sport. And I will feel cheated to a certain extent (if too many changes are made) because I want to watch the contact sport that I grew up loving and watching, but I know that’s no longer possible.”

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... tell it like it is, Marshall ... unfortunately, it's those pesky injury-lawsuits from the players that'll keep getting in the way ...
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I wonder if he would say that if he were still playing.
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