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In reply to the discussion: The Texas Senate approved something called the Tim Tebow Bill, and it’s a big deal [View all]sofa king
(10,857 posts)Why stop there? Why not front a line of five 22 year old behemoths who are home-studying for their GEDs and trying out for the NFL every spring?
Kurt Vonnegut was perfectly attuned to this sort of idiocy, and while he's talking about college ball, the logical conclusions of this policy might very well be the same.
From Player Piano:
Doctor Roseberry was inclined to react ironically to the last line of the song. "Certainly, victorious last year, four years afore that," he muttered in his pregnant solitude. But here was another year that might not look so hot inlaid in rosewood. "Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow," he said wearily. Every coach in the Ivy League was out to knock him down to a PE-003 again, and two losses would do it. Yale and Penn were loaded. Yale had floated a bond to buy the whole Texas A&M backfield, and Penn had bought Breslaw from Wisconsin for $43,000.
Roseberry groaned. "How the hell long they think a man can play college football?" he wanted to know. Six years before, Cornell had bought him from Wabash College, and asked him to list his idea of a dream team. Then, by God they'd bought it for him.
"But what the hell they think they bought?" he asked himself. "Sumpin' made outa steel and see-ment? Supposed to last a lifetime, is it?" They hadn't bought him so much as a water boy since, and the average age of the Big Red was now close to thirty-one.