mekka okereke Mar 4, 2023

It's #NFLCombine time so it's time for me to flex on em again.

For those wise enough to ignore football: The #NFL combine is the annual strength, speed, and skill competition that players hoping to be drafted into the NFL compete in.

To test a player's strength, they put 225 lbs on a bar and see how many times they can bench press it.

Here's me doing it 37 times:
https://youtu.be/jmWo3zkISFo

And here's the NFL draft current leaderboard.
https://www.nfl.com/combine/tracker/live-results/bench-press/all-positions/all-colleges/

So far I'm still in 1st place! 🏆🥇

Bench press 225 lbs x 37 reps.

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Show threadmekka okereke Mar 4, 2023

The highest paid government employee in almost every state, is the head football coach of a State University.🤡

The second or third highest paid government employee in almost every state, is a State University football team's strength and conditioning coach.🤡

Given how much football strength coaches are paid, and how little they know about improving human performance, or even keeping their athletes safe while training, they may be the most overpaid people in the world.

Show threadmekka okereke Mar 4, 2023

These strength and conditioning coaches get paid millions to be bad at making people either stronger or faster, and to hurt kids and pump them full of drugs.

https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/109625703034169419

Football is a silly sport. What's inside your cranium is too valuable to play "big horn ram" with another large person.🐏

And if you have near death experiences while training? I promise you that you're doing it wrong. You're not getting stronger, and you're not getting faster. You're just being abused.

mekka okereke :verified: (@[email protected])

The issue isn't just that football is a violent sport. Many sports are violent. The issue isn't just that there was an on-field cardiac arrest. Happens. More and more since Covid. People confuse "Omicron doesn't attack the lungs as much" with "Omicron is mild" The issue is the callous indifference that the mostly Black players are handled with The most dangerous form of football in terms of fatalities is college spring football. So called "strength and conditioning" coaches work kids to death

Hachyderm.io
Show threadMichael WymanMar 4, 2023

@mekkaokereke 20 years ago I ended up on a flight next to a former Dallas Cowboys lineman, and we got to talking. He said not a day went by where he wasn’t in pain and full of regret for all the abuse he put his body through, and that the sport had only gotten worse since he played (he’d been out for something like 15 years at that point).

I can’t watch football. I don’t want to feed the money machine that tries to entice men to that abuse for further profits to owners.

Show threadcaseyjonesed
@mwyman @mekkaokereke I used to watch until one game years ago when Luke Kuechley, Panthers linebacker got hit by a runner who’s helmet hit him square on the chest. Luke went down and couldn’t breathe. When he sat up his eyes were filled with fear. I have not watched a game since.
Mar 4, 2023 at 12:26pmWeb