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2014-05-18 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Obama to hold summit on sports concussions

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Posted by Fred 2014-05-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Collegiate sports union organizers, and unnamed members of the Aaron Hernandez defense team have accepted invitations to the 'summit' but decline to return calls.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-05-18 03:44|| 2014-05-18 03:44|| Front Page Top

#2 Next, a summit on the comparative brain risk of pot smoking and sports.

Posted by Glenmore 2014-05-18 08:07|| 2014-05-18 08:07|| Front Page Top

#3 State colleges and high schools. It's a state issue. You might call the academies in for a summit, but isn't that something for the SecDef?

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-05-18 08:41|| 2014-05-18 08:41|| Front Page Top

#4 Joe "I played football at University of Delaware" Biden should be the summit leader for both seriousness and as an example to others of the Drain Bamage

Posted by Frank G 2014-05-18 10:07|| 2014-05-18 10:07|| Front Page Top

#5 The president told The New Yorker earlier this year that he'd be reticent to allow his son, if he had one, play professional football because of the risk of concussions
He'd much rather his son took after Trayvon Martin.

Posted by Sholuling Elmeremble5726 2014-05-18 10:54|| 2014-05-18 10:54|| Front Page Top

#6 It would be safer if they'd stop the damn running, trotting or jogging football is the wave of the future. Fewer points perhaps but more time for serious styling and vogueing. Bonus those nasty grass stains wouldn't be so prevalent.

Posted by Shipman 2014-05-18 11:08|| 2014-05-18 11:08|| Front Page Top

#7 Without concussions and brain damage where's he going to get voters?

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2014-05-18 11:13|| 2014-05-18 11:13|| Front Page Top

#8 The president told The New Yorker earlier this year that he'd be reticent to allow his son, if he had one, play professional football

How adorable! He thinks his adult children are going to take orders from him about their career choices, when it's already clear his preteen/young teen children are uninterested in his taste in clothing.

Posted by trailing wife 2014-05-18 11:49|| 2014-05-18 11:49|| Front Page Top

#9 "Cause, you know, all the thing he's supposed to be dealing with are already fixed.
Which means, by inference, everything so far is part of the plan...

Posted by ed in texas 2014-05-18 12:43|| 2014-05-18 12:43|| Front Page Top

#10 Desperately seking importance.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2014-05-18 13:23|| 2014-05-18 13:23|| Front Page Top

#11 A diversion attempt to turn the spotlight from Hilda-beasts recent brain injuries rumors?

Posted by Bubba Graiting8281 2014-05-18 13:26|| 2014-05-18 13:26|| Front Page Top

#12 Nah. He'd want to spotlight that, if anything.

Posted by Pappy 2014-05-18 15:36|| 2014-05-18 15:36|| Front Page Top

#13 That's amazing; I have a pretend dog I don't play fetch with for the exact same reason.

Greatest poet since Homer.

Posted by swksvolFF 2014-05-18 15:52|| 2014-05-18 15:52|| Front Page Top

#14 A diversion attempt to turn the spotlight from Hilda-beasts recent brain injuries rumors?

She got the injuries playing football?

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2014-05-18 16:11|| 2014-05-18 16:11|| Front Page Top

#15 Is Hildebeast going to be there as the keynote speaker?

Posted by JohnQC 2014-05-18 19:08|| 2014-05-18 19:08|| Front Page Top

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