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Obama Hits Violence in Football: ‘If I Had a Son’ I’m Not Sure If I Would ‘Let Him Play’

Jan. 27, 2013 1:21pm Billy Hallowell

WASHINGTON (TheBlaze/AP) — Football’s first fan isn’t sure he’d let his son play the game, in light of the impact it takes on its players. It is the violence inherent in the sport that he explicitly targets as problematic and a potential barrier to allowing a son partake (pending he actually had one).

“I’m a big football fan, but I have to tell you, if I had a son, I’d have to think long and hard before I let him play football,” President Barack Obama tells The New Republic.

President Barack Obama Isnt Sure Hed Let a Son Play Football | Violence

President Barack Obama tries to wave away a fly buzzing around his head as he speaks in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013 (Photo Credit: AP)

“And I think that those of us who love the sport are going to have to wrestle with the fact that it will probably change gradually to try to reduce some of the violence,” Obama said. “In some cases, that may make it a little bit less exciting, but it will be a whole lot better for the players, and those of us who are fans maybe won’t have to examine our consciences quite as much.”

In an interview in the magazine’s Feb. 11 issue, Obama said he worries more about college players than he does about those in the NFL.

“The NFL players have a union, they’re grown men, they can make some of these decisions on their own, and most of them are well-compensated for the violence they do to their bodies,” Obama said. “You read some of these stories about college players who undergo some of these same problems with concussions and so forth and then have nothing to fall back on. That’s something that I’d like to see the NCAA think about.”

Read the entire interview here.

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Comments (223)

bartjoebob
Posted on January 27, 2013 at 2:42pm
yeah yeah…. If he had a son, he’d look like treyvon, he wouldnt be allowed to play football, he’d be a card carrying member of the of the local choom gang and communnist party like his old man.

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AmericaMustBeFree
Posted on January 27, 2013 at 2:40pm
Really, your favorite basketball isn’t much better. This just shows what a wimp Obama really is!

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NOBALONEY
Posted on January 27, 2013 at 2:38pm
uh oh! Flags will soon be appearing in the back pockets of NFL players.

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- normalmom
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 2:58pm
  The only flags in the NFL should be penalty flags. The more “protection” rules the more sissy ball it becomes. I love football but it is going soft. As for Obama not surprising in the least.
  
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SkyeOne
Posted on January 27, 2013 at 2:37pm
If our King touches football, that might wake up some Americans, finally, to this overreaching narcissist.

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KeystoneState
Posted on January 27, 2013 at 2:35pm
I’m starting to think ENCINOM might be Beck himself playing Devils Advocate.

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cja23
Posted on January 27, 2013 at 2:32pm
Try alot less violence in videos, movies and TV shows being fed to our children on a constant basis, Obama, ya think.

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RDYSTGO
Posted on January 27, 2013 at 2:30pm
THat is why he would end up smoking blounts and getting thrown out of school and shot one day for something senseless.

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TRILO
Posted on January 27, 2013 at 2:30pm
Thanks to the NFL players lawsuit and now the Tyrant in Chief, football will be soon be a sport of the past. Kids at many schools can not run, play tag or have bars to climb on anymore because they might get hurt. Our country has turned into a nation of wimps and takers.

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Batjak456
Posted on January 27, 2013 at 2:19pm
Obama-Rama-Lama-Ding-Dong…

I can’t disagree with you on this one…

Hell, I gave up on NFL Thugball years ago.

I know…

Why don’t you teach ‘him’ to be a pitcher…

Like you.

BATJAK456

ALL GAVE SOME
SOME GAVE ALL

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AKHDPETE
Posted on January 27, 2013 at 2:08pm
Another fly buzzes Obummer, must be his stinkin **** breath.

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garbagecanlogic
Posted on January 27, 2013 at 2:08pm
You were not man enough to have a son – so give it up you arse!

The U.N. Out Of The U.S.
Praise Be To Obama. Psalm 109:8

The U.S. Out Of The U.N.

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john vincent
Posted on January 27, 2013 at 2:08pm
The caption at the top says it all:’ if I had a son, I’m not sure I would let him play…’
just a continuation of the king/subject relationship @ the same time promoting hypocrisy.

‘Dad, I want to be a punter, not a guard, a lineman, kick returner etc’ No junior, too dangerous.’ Hey son, theres a game on, the Skins are playing the Pack.’ Here you have Junior emulating his father’s enthusiasm, and he is nipped in the bud. ‘I DO NOT WANT you to play!’ says the sire.

So by a lateral line of thinking, the king says to his other children, you and I, ‘I do not think you should have those guns….I want you to have national health insurance…I want you to see the absolute credibility of global warming…I want to appoint czars, czarinas, I want to legislate, adjudicate, execute, and appoint whosoever I will, because good children obey the mighty father.’

Back to football. Obama is a big fan because of how the game is played….NOW…..even though he will say otherwise. If he saw enough of the hurt, he should watch ping pong. where the worst that could happen is a good sweat. But Mr Obama, no one cares what you think about football.

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sojournerspirit
Posted on January 27, 2013 at 2:07pm
this ad does’nt really matter, he has no son, he just likes to put his mouth in everything, just like a dic-ta-tor.

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Paul -Indiana
Posted on January 27, 2013 at 2:07pm
His son? Oblamo is projecting his own fears.

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chucksue351
Posted on January 27, 2013 at 2:04pm
thats not a fly but the newest drone

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Shasta
Posted on January 27, 2013 at 2:04pm
“If I had a son” is code for “marching orders for the media to follow”.

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jungle J
Posted on January 27, 2013 at 2:04pm
If he had a son he would have him busy in hate school.

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KeystoneState
Posted on January 27, 2013 at 2:02pm
Good, ban football Dear Leader O! Protect us idiots from ourselves! Oh thank you Sweet Knowledgeable One! How the kcuf would we ever get by without your control? It’s amazing managed to get through the last 236 years without you!

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Shasta
Posted on January 27, 2013 at 2:02pm
This is nothing more than a signal to all the (dark) forces on the left that football needs to be toned down. O thinks the game needs more participants and less competitors. If necessary, government WILL get involved. It has already begun. The NFL is considering replacing the kickoff with just placing the ball (gently) on the 20 yard line.

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toiletclogga
Posted on January 27, 2013 at 2:01pm
Many ex-NFL players are shooting themselves in the chest? Seau, one to two other copy cats? That is not many. Why did we not hear about this crap when players wore leather helmets? These ex-NFL football players have been concussed many times over, but to say that is why Seau shot himself is a cop out. Seau shot himself because he was lauded from the time he was in high school, throughout college, and into a lengthy professional career. His persona could not stand him not being “the man” any longer. His personal life was falling apart, and he just couldn’t enter life as an ex-NFL football player. He let football define who he was.

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RANGER1965
Posted on January 27, 2013 at 2:00pm
You have to remember that the President didn’t say anything about regulations, governement forcing changes etc.

He said: that knowing the dangers he would have to think long and hard about whether he would let his son play football.
He said: that he doesn’t have a problem with NFL players getting injured because they are grown men and are well compensated with good pay and insurance if they get an injury.
He said: that college players don’t have anything to fall back on if they become disabled.

There’s nothing unreasonable about any of the above. He’s not suggesting (yet), that the government needs to step in and rule football.

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jmb847
Posted on January 27, 2013 at 1:59pm
Next up an executive order to ban football. Dem’s seem to like to outlaw things they don’t like.

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Steve_Surfs
Posted on January 27, 2013 at 1:58pm
Of course, if Obama had a son he would not play football. If Obama had a son he would have been Travon Martin, or a gold toothed gangbanger, too busy selling drugs to be involved in something as wholesome as football.

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- The-Monk
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 4:24pm
  I have a sense that a lot of football loving Union workers are saying WTF right about now!
  
  LMAO !!!!
  
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- biohazard23
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 4:28pm
  Well, he DID say if he had had a son, he would have looked a lot like Trayvon so….
  
  How do you think those gold teeth would look in an official WH family photo? Would they be photo shopped out or is that racist? :)
  
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- yougottabekidding
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 4:32pm
  The great thing is they won’t have to pay them so much. The cost of games will go down and those brutes will learn to say please and thank you!
  
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- yougottabekidding
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 4:34pm
  Why are there always flies are around this guy?
  I have my idea!
  
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- IndyGuy
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 5:48pm
  If Obama had a son,he’d be a gangbanger in Chicago…
  
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- flrick
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 6:07pm
  If that skiiny fruitbag had a son, he’d more likely be into ballet anyway.
  
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- 000degrees
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 7:14pm
  No….. remember if you had a son he would be fighting a neighborhood watch and spilling his skittles….
  
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- mwhaley
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 8:25pm
  One thing Obama does not have enough testosterone to produce a male child. Second if Obama had a son he would be wearing mama jeans and certainly could not throw a ball of any kind.
  
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- RabidPatriot
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 8:44pm
  If he had a son, he would probably be a limousine liberal pansy.
  
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- Obama_In_PeePee_Is_Becks_Art
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 2:04am
  “Obama Hits Violence in Football: ‘If I Had a Son’ I’m Not Sure If I Would ‘Let Him Play’”
  
  That’s an odd statement coming from a man who is playing the most dangerous game in the world … Barack Hussein Obama, AKA Barry Obama, AKA Barry Soetoro, Kenyan-born illegal-alien, White House “occupier”, U.S. elections stealer, Soros/NWO puppet:
  
  “DICTATORSHIP PLAN For America 2012!! :: Glenn Beck Names The TRAITORS & Exposes Their CONSPIRACY!!”
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAu_-UmERuo
  
  Yep, football is THAT-DANGEROUS a game …
  
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- blazereader789
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 6:21am
  Haha, Obama is so concerned with women’s equality and not with the real issues that the next thing you know he will make it a law that teams draft girls and play two hand touch. Speaking of which theres an article here on the same issue that I think everyone would enjoy… http://www.realtimesblog.com The guy is so adamant on changing everything he can.
  
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- rfycom
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 8:21am
  You people are like children.
  
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- biohazard23
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 9:38am
  @rfycom, “you people”?? RACIST!!!!!
  
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- fortdick
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 11:25am
  The fact is Obama doesn’t have a son …. because Moochelle took away his Y chromosome.
  
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- Ms.Integrity
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 4:35pm
  Could somebody tell this guy to get to work at his real job?
  
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- ron2win
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 6:56pm
  I don’t know what o is talking about .His son travon was killed a while ago . The grief he is suffering is affecting his mind .
  
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- dmerwin
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 8:57pm
  Barry, stfu.
  
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- IowanativeER
  Posted on January 29, 2013 at 12:04am
  Oblahma is entitled to his opinions…but his opinions are taken by his mass of lemming-thinkers as being enlightened remarks. His opinions are amplified by his news media allies. When he utters a negative thought about someone or something the demonizing commences. But we know we have to pay attention to the sly devil and what he does and says to keep him in check. The narcissist loves our focus as much as he doesn’t deserve it.
  
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UNALIEN
Posted on January 27, 2013 at 1:56pm
“if I had a son, I’d have to think long and hard before I let him play football,” President Barack Obama tells The New Republic.”

but Mr Obama, you have two daughters,, would you let them be front line combat troops.. huh wha, can’t hear you …

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- RANGER1965
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 2:01pm
  LOL!
  
  Great Point!
  
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- pavepaws
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 2:09pm
  He’d be a wuss too.
  
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- kryptonite
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 2:13pm
  Excellent! Can some gutsy reporter ask this question? PLEEZE!
  
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- johnsell
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 2:14pm
  You hit that nail on the head, but he would probably say that once they are out of college that they are old enough to make that decision for themselves, but they should be paid more to compensate…..
  
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- MCGIRV
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 2:16pm
  Hear,hear!
  
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- crackerone
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 2:22pm
  “If I had a son, he would be just like me,………only worse”.
  
  Barack Hussein Obama Sr.
  
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- sillyfreshness
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 2:23pm
  What do you expect when you have men dressed up in suits of armor just like Medieval times. Only the suits are made of high impact plastic rather than steel. Of course they are going to hit as hard as they can, because they think they are invincible. Put that on top of the fact that you have so many players that are show offs. They love to grandstand and taunt the other team. They got their “ice” while “clubbin” when they aren’t on the field playing. You have a bunch of players that are just one step below prisoners. Most are just thugs and act like thugs off the field. This shouldn’t be any surprise.
  
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- KenInIL
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 2:23pm
  Still waiting for Bush’s daughters to take there tour of Afghanistan.
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 2:24pm
  0bama is just speaking out because back on the playground during football season, nobody would choose his swishing ass for their team. Just watch him run in his mom jeans.
  
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- imsteph
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 2:43pm
  crickets….
  
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- Cavallo
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 2:45pm
  If Obama had a son he’d be cooking drugs and assaulting neighborhood watch captians, right bobo?
  
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- paulusmaximus
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 2:46pm
  I can stop here that is the point for someone who claims so much for “women’s rights” he is very condescending .
  
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- crackerone
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 2:53pm
  Obama is so two-faced. He’d play wide receiver in college, just like pops.
  
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- PASSIONFORCHRIST
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 2:57pm
  He has 2 daughters, he can’t make sons! Thank you God for that Blessing!
  
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- bannedfromCNN
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 3:13pm
  Who cares what this Kenyan pretender thinks?
  
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- biohazard23
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 3:15pm
  @RJ, he doesn’t run in his mom jeans. He goes out on Peewee’s Big Adventure with his bicycle helmet instead.
  
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- TH777
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 3:16pm
  @Unalien: Great question!! I wish someone with some guts would ask him that question. But then he’s always been protected from the “rough & tough” questions, hasn’t he?
  
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- TH30PH1LUS
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 3:40pm
  He would be the next RuPaul.
  
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- pissantno.10
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 4:15pm
  obamas son would be right next to silly cooking on his easy bake oven
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 4:27pm
  “While I’m destroying the economy, rewriting History, changing America’s values and language, I’ll think I’ll go after sports too. That is…. except basketball”
  
  BHO
  
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- pwatkins
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 4:30pm
  You beat me to that question. I was thinking the same thing when I read this.
  
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- taintso
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 5:36pm
  Of course he would, better them than him.
  
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- GuruMeditation
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 6:25pm
  and if he had a father he’d look just like Lucifer.
  
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- kryptonite
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 10:17pm
  @GURUMEDITATION
  and if he had a father he’d look just like Lucifer.
  —–
  Who’s Lucifer? Do you mean, Satan? Lucifer is a god in Satanism.
  
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NickyLouse
Posted on January 27, 2013 at 1:56pm
If Obama (pbuh) had a son who rode a bicycle, he (pbuh) would dress him up like a girl and put tassels and a little horn on it for him.

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- Anonymous T. Irrelevant
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 2:16pm
  I’d like some news reporter ask Obama what those big scars on the back of his head are from?
  
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