NFL bans tackles

Oops. Sorry. That was the NHL. And they're not banning tackles. They're just banning body-checking that involves hits to the head.

This is where I get really confused, and yes, I used to play hockey, at the most minor of minor leagues, and I did in fact take a few shots to the head, which would explain quite a bit. But I totally don't get how you can have a sport that allows one 220 pound white athlete to crash into same and then call it a penalty when somebody's head gets hit?

Isn't the head attached to the body?

So what they really want to do, is eliminate body-checks.

This is why you NFL fans should be paying attention. This drive to eliminate contact in hockey comes out of a concern about player health. Sorry, when you decide to make a career out of running at other athletes at 30 miles an hour on skates, the concussion you get is the concussion you signed up for. That's the name of the game. It's the game, in fact. Same with football. Excuse me, but these guys are getting millions for running into each other because it's something you and I couldn't or wouldn't do. And even if we were willing to risk a concussion, we're not nearly good enough to make the millions.

Millions. Concussions. They are hanging Don Cherry out to dry because he said what I just said. Millions. Concussions. It's a game. Football, hockey, whatever, when we pay you millions to play a game it's because we know you are taking risks we would never take.

The ground zero of this foolishness is Ontario, home of the CBC, which both harbours Dangerous Don Cherry and leads the fake campaign against concussions in sport.

Ontario just legalized MMA fights. You know, that sport where athletes are allowed to kick one another in the head.