Do you consider NFL players to be our society's true warriors?

Yes, they are like 100 times cooler and tougher than the military.

It would have to be teachers.

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No. I mean, don't get me wrong. I enjoy watching football games, and I respect the players who work hard and are the best at what they do. But warriors? Nah. It's a game. It's entertainment. And the game is a lot safer today than it used to be.

Try something that requires more than mediocre college grades and a mere bachelors degree. Think about people that make life or death decisions, save lives, and are extremely educated. Physicians, PhD's that find cures for diseases,and to a lesser extent nurses (only requires a bachelors). How about special forces soldiers? But please, not a degree that requires very little study in college, a lot of goofing off, and just a bachelors. I wouldn't normally hate on people with a college degree, but we should really be praising the best of the best, the people with the most rigorous degrees and most education.

Good teachers are worth their weight in gold, but I could have slacked off a LOT in college to have become a teacher. It was the backup to my backup for career choice.

For sports, I would consider MMA fighters or rugby.

Only behind the folks who run toward gunfire and into fires...then surgeons, EMTs, etc that save lives.

They are entertainers. Gladiators might be more appropriate than warriors

It's going to hurt some feelings, but in general (with exceptions), the most difficult jobs are the most highly compensated or at least the most competitive. Teaching is relatively poorly compensated, thus the weak competition.Also, more education usually entails more difficulty. There are exceptions, of course, but this is a general rule. (Engineering degrees that are bachelor's degrees are pretty damn tough and more difficult than a lot of masters degrees.)

Yes.

They basically sacrifice their bodies and health, and are even convinced that they do it for a worhtwhile cause, that makes lot of money for a certain wealthy elite while the middle class is conditioned to idolize them/cheer them on unreservedly.

So, yes.

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No. I mean, don't get me wrong. I enjoy watching football games, and I respect the players who work hard and are the best at what they do. But warriors? Nah. It's a game. It's entertainment. And the game is a lot safer today than it used to be.

Really- Rugby players consider them wimps and even Alan Page said a marathon was tougher than anything in the NFL.

actually, those without legal documents South Americans standing in the sun all day around Home Depot are alot tuffer than most of the athletes.

Most of the time, they don't even get any work the whole day and many are going to Mexico, since America don't even have that many jobs anymore.

Kellen Winslow does.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I82BPA5QAaQ

10/10

I would put trades/ investment bankers as our truest warriors followed by NFL players and then Occupy Wall Street participants.

The true warriors in our society are those patriots who buy and keep assault weapons to keep us free from tyranny by our United States government.

Yes, it is extremely physically taxing to run into other people (potentially) for 3-5 seconds, followed by walking, standing, and talking for 35 seconds, enduring the grueling numerous team time outs, commercial time outs, quarter and halftime breaks, and that exhausting 2 minute warning downtime they torture players with.

Nevermind the warrior-like effort it takes to stand on the sidelines talking to your coaches and teammates while the offense/defense/special teams group has replaced you because you play one side of the ball only.

And sometimes the air conditioning fans aren't pointed at you correcty, or the heated benches are full, or the trainers don't immediately get you a gatorade, or put your parka on your back!

Particularly those 3rd down backs, man, those guys have it rough! It's a brutal sport, unlike MMA, which is for ex-football players and wrestlers with nothing better to do.

Those are some great choices.

Navy Seals are society's true soldiers.

Lets get real. Just watch their training, they train like professional athletes and know how to kill people very well.

I agree. Add to the list people that own pitbulls, have tattoos and wear weight vests.

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The true warriors in our society are those patriots who buy and keep assault weapons to keep us free from tyranny by our United States government.

The death and injury rates for NFL players make the NFL the warriors of our day. Look at what happened to USC great Junior Seau of Oceanside, California. Harvard actuaries and MBAs employed by the Pentagon have managed to drop militant casualties to such a low level, the regular military branches suffer very low death rates. Even Airborne, Green Beret, SEALS, Rangers, Para Jumpers are safer occupations than Iron Workers, Cab Drivers, Pizza Delivery Drivers, Electrical Utility Workers, Deep Sea Platform workers, Oil Refinery Workers, Deep Sea Fisherman, Tractor-Trailer Drivers, General Aviation Pilots, ...