<li><p>Why are many football coaches (or other sports coaches, for that matter) fat? Isn’t it annoying when the coach is telling you to work harder and maintain a certain body size when they themselves can’t lead by example?</p></li>
<li><p>Why are many many professional athletes fat? From what I’ve observed, many baseball players are overweight, and football players obese (though soccer and tennis players tend to have nice physiques). Would their performance improve if they go back to normal size with the right fat/muscle proportions?</p></li>
<li><p>How come I never see screennames like “proud2behisdad” whereas “proud2beherdad” and screennames along those lines abound? Why aren’t there mother/daughter or father/son dances, when there are mother/son and father/daughter dances?</p></li>
<li><p>Why do people play video games whose objective is to kill people? </p></li>
<li><p>Why are priests/popes fat and/or excessively eat luxurious foods when one of the “7 deadly sins” is gluttony?</p></li>
<li><p>Why do many adults prey on children? Let’s be honest, guys. Many, if not most, of us (esp. people my age-- early teens) have been the object of those lust.ful glances by older people, mostly men. Such an incident was even documented in Catcher in the Rye.</p></li>
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<li><p>when you get older, you muscle starts to go away. most football coaches arent 25 & in perfect shape. they have already had their physical peak.</p></li>
<li><p>i dont know about baseball players being fat… but its probably mostly muscle. & for football players most of them need to be pretty big to run into other people on the field. & also… a lot of that is prob muscle</p></li>
<li><p>not a lot of parents have screen names…& idk…</p></li>
<li><p>they find it fun & something they wouldnt do in real life…?</p></li>
<li><p>maybe they dont exercise</p></li>
<li><p>theyre psycho’s</p></li>
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<li>its a slice of fantasy…a taboo made accessible…it can be exciting and a way to let out frustrations and angers…</li>
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<p>haha 3 of the questions are basically the same…why is America so **** fat?!?</p>
<p>You don’t have to listen to me.</p>
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<li><p>Haha, that’s not always the case. My rowing coach competed at the international level. He’s too old to compete now, but he’s still stronger than any of the (at-least-30-years-younger) guys on our team.</p></li>
<li><p>Not all pro athletes are fat. Yes, baseball players are TECHNICALLY overweight, but that’s only according to the BMI scale. BMI doesn’t take into account how much of that weight is fat and how much is muscle. With football players…I’m not quite sure. I’m not a football person. However, I would assume that they’re either heavily muscled, or that the extra weight works to their advantage.</p></li>
<li><p>Because we haven’t worked our way around tradition and discrimination yet.</p></li>
<li><p>The purpose of video games, tv, entertainment in general, is to provide an escape from reality.</p></li>
<li><p>Do you really think that all clergymen adhere to the tenets of ther religion 100%? They’re human, too.</p></li>
<li><p>I have no answer to this…but I do have a question. Where in Catcher in the Rye did this happen? If you’re talking about when Holden woke up and his teacher was staring at him, I think that scene wasn’t intended to be taken as the character describes it. That was more of a “fatherly love” thing.</p></li>
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<p>I read an article about the increasing incidence of severe obesity in professional football players. They aren’t just ‘big’ or ‘athletic,’ they are (some of them, anyway) terribly unhealthy and at risk for the same diseases at any other obese American.</p>
<p>4.) Humans have an innate trigger for violence. We often suppress this feeling because it is not favored in our society. We try to use other media to satisfy it, and kids thus use video games.</p>
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<li><p>Most football coaches either 1) played football in college or 2) played football in the pros. When they were in their prime, they were probably more fit than you and me. Consider the ages of most football coaches - most of them are in their 40s and 50s…I wouldn’t expect them to be as fit as their charges. Besides, its not so much leading by example physically (because it is an impossibility in most cases), but its more like the coaches are leading their players by motivating them and imparting wisdom to them.</p></li>
<li><p>I never played baseball, but most football players are heavily muscled. Although they may not be as toned as a swimmer or a rower, they possess a lot of explosive strength. Even when they lift or run in the off seasons, the workouts are usually shorter and more intense. This is to help them develop their explosive “stop and go” speed. There are many extremely large football players with excellent 40 yard dash times (under 5 seconds). Besides, it’s also a matter of physics. You will definately feel a hit from a 6’4’’ 270lbs lineman who has been lifting all off-season.</p></li>
<li><p>Dunno.</p></li>
<li><p>It’s fun to shoot/kill people in video games because it is something you normally wouldn’t be able to do in real life. It is also a good way to relieve stress.</p></li>
<li><p>Not all priests and popes are fat. Again, you are making generalizations. Besides, what is so wrong with them eating foods that you and I would normally take time to enjoy?</p></li>
<li><p>There are a number of reasons. I would suggest reading up on criminal psychology on this site: <a href=“http://www.crimelibrary.com%5B/url%5D”>www.crimelibrary.com</a></p></li>
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<li><p>LOL I think if a football player criticized the coach, the player would get beheaded. Have you ever HEARD a football coach? Those guys are SCARY.</p></li>
<li><p>Just because you aren’t skinny doesn’t mean you’re “fat.” Those athletes are very fit and muscular–they just don’t bother to lose weight. BMI isn’t totally accurate.</p></li>
<li><p>The reason they have dances for fathers/daughters and for mothers/sons is because society thinks these relationships aren’t being cultivated enough. and we need to provide bonding time for those relationships to grow. People think mothers/daughters and fathers/sons already get enough bonding time because those are the traditional strong familial relationships.</p></li>
<li><p>It’s fun to play thrilling, risky games.</p></li>
<li><p>Priests/popes aren’t perfect. Who said clergy members were automatically going to follow all the rules of their religion? It’s very difficult to find people without flaws. And being fat isn’t the biggest sin you could commit.</p></li>
<li><p>Everyone has sexual feelings and adolescents are appealing to sexual deviants because of their youthfulness.</p></li>
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<p>Agreed. I would never have dared criticized my high school football coach…that is, if I wanted to live.</p>
<p>If this is what you are perplexed about, you need to read more physics. :D</p>
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<li><p>they’re old and don’t play anymore. most ex football players (except for quarter backs) always seem to be fat. maybe it’s b/c they got injured or their bodies are so beat up they can’t do exercise anymore and like to eat.</p></li>
<li><p>um, pretty much only pro baseball players and football players are fat. baseball it’s because you don’t have to be in great shape to play baseball. and they work out to get pure muscles and take steroids. football players are forced to eat more to gain weight so they don’t get pushed around on the field, esp line backers and the defensive line or whatever their called. trust me, they are strong, but there’s def a lot of nasty fat there. there was a report on 20/20 or something about fat football players.</p></li>
<li><p>i don’t know. but as far as the dance thing goes, isn’t the point of dances for the people to dance together? so wouldn’t it be odd to have a mom and daughter exclusively dance with each other or a father and his son? im’ not being homo phobic by the way, b/c this isn’t about man on man action or anything. it’s about a son dancing with his dad. um…yeah not seeing it.</p></li>
<li><p>b/c it’s way to pretend and people like that</p></li>
<li><p>b/c preists are hypocrits at times. and they don’t do excercise and sit on a pulpit and drink wine and eat bread all day. ok not really, but they’re old and just don’t run or anything.</p></li>
<li><p>b/c some adults have serious problems. as for older men giving 20 year olds glances, well, that’s just them being physically attaracted to a younger female. i mean, younger people are more attractive. but when “younger” means before 18, well then it’s disgusting and weird. however, i know that when i’m 50, i’ll find 25 year old men more attractive than 50 year old men, duh. i doubt i’ll do anything about it though.</p></li>
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<p>current_student: in response to #3, what are you thinking? how is that homosexual? it’s the mother and the daughter, the father and the son, not lovers. you mean when the father and the daughter or mother and son dance together, they have sexual relations or something? if there are no sexual relations, then when can’t a father and son or mother and daughter dance together? I’m sorry if I just revealed your Electra/Oedipus complex</p>
<p>Those priests should not be priests if they can’t keep themselves holy. There is absolutely no excuse for them to pig out. I didn’t mean to generalize. I meant to put “some.”</p>
<p>If the sports coaches want to coach, they better be in shape. It’s not an excuse that they have to work harder because of the slower metabolism. They are coaching professional sports, for Christ’s sake. My dad, who is like 45, is fit…why can’t they be?</p>
<p>I don’t mind lust.ful glances actually. In fact, I tease them even more to the point where they have to cover their bulge.</p>
<p>Ok, sagekid, if you already knew “life’s answers,” then why did you ask us?</p>
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<li><p>Maybe they’re fat but our JV/Varsity coach ran once. He raced everyone in our team including wide receivers. Yeah, memories, sad I can’t play football this season :'(</p></li>
<li><p>Because baseball is stupid American sport where no one understand what they’re doing and they don’t really do anything at all?</p></li>
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<p>Check out real sports like: soccer, wrestling, swimming, track, et cetera…</p>
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<li><p>they are in shape, they have treetrunks for arms, but dont do any ab work so they have huge bellies. also the result of not carring what they eat because they work out alot.</p></li>
<li><p>some of the best dlinemen are not fat. olinemen need to be fairly big so they can provide a wall to protect the qb</p></li>
<li><p>what son wants to dance with his dad?</p></li>
<li><p>if i cant kill you in real life, it is the next best thing to kill people in video games. also, it is fun to shoot your friends and know you dont hurt them.</p></li>
<li><p>priests dont work out and they eat well, not excessivly, hence they gain weight. when you are as old as the pope (100+) you start to seem fat</p></li>
<li><p>um, some people are strange. go to jail and ask some perverts to get the correct answer.</p></li>
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Agility plays a role as well, so they can’t be just big and fat.</p>
<p>Venkater, I thought Luther Vandross wanted to dance with his father? literally, i think. so why isn’t there a social outlet for them??</p>
<p>^sage, so just b/c luther wanted to do it, EVERYONE should want to? </p>
<p>anyway, the song is about him, his mother, and his father dancing together. and he was little. so it’s not actually serious dancing but more of a metaphor or whatever.</p>