at 12:55 when he's talking about injuring player on purpose, this obviously isn't a thing currently but, prior to some rule changes and heavier enforcement in the 2000's in the nhl there are players that were often signed just to fight called "goons". They were often put on one month contracts go on the ice once or twice get in a brutal fight, beat the crap out of some starter, get suspended and never play again. Goons are still seen, but not in the same way, just a fun fact!
The NBA kind of has this. They were still decent players, but they were mostly there to be the dog in a confrontation. James Johnson, the Morris twins, and Draymond come to mind here.
Fun fact about the Rizzo concussion thing, during those 2 months he batted worse than Lou Gehrig did when he had ALS. Coney's right, the brain is terrifying.
Tbf Lou Gehrig was known as the Iron Horse for a reason. up until Cal Ripken Jr's career, he had the most consecutive games played, A lot with ALS. He was a work horse and loved the game more than anything. Edit: Mickey Mantle, known as a consensus Top 10 player in the games history. Played his entire career on a Torn ACL after getting his spikes caught on an exposed drain pipe (this was in 1951) and still not only is the best switch hitter in history. But one of the best defensive center fielders in history
13:00 You know whats crazy? The saints actually did this. They had a "reward" system for if players took the good players on the other team off the field. They got away with this for at least one whole season and only got outed later.
It wasn’t just the Saints. lol the NFL had to make an example out of someone. Brett Favre literally put in his book that the Vikings had the same system in place.
I have had the same exact "why not just have your worst player injure their best players until they get ejected" thought and Coney agreeing with me feels great.
Cause you forgot the extension of that thought where the other team goes hard on your teams star players in revenge and as you anger more teams your team becomes more at threat of having it done to them. Your team might play 14/16 dangerous games but other teams are only playing 1/2 dangerous games. Second the team might get punished if the league finds out weird things are being done with player salaries and of deaths occur well pre-meditated/conspiracy to murder isn’t a nice sounding charge. Then on top of that there is the stories that come out after player trades or if some coach is traded.
"Why dont people just injure star players in futbol?" My country's futbol is kinda fucked up, and I can confirm that injuring a star player is SUPER obvious. Even just touching another player can count as a foul sometimes, so unless the whole team is gonna do it for the whole game like in my country, that's a bad idea
I went to a minor league game that had so many runs my family went out with 5 we caught alone. The team has a lawn behind the feild that just turned into a battlefield
god i love it when streamers make the audio of the video theyre watching 10 times lower then their voice so if you turn the volume up to hear the video every time the streamer talks your ear drums shatter ty coney this video made my week
12:55 why is chat making fun of him here no one dispeoves him Like, he's right, the fine would not mean anything, if you're bad enough that the suspension wouldn't matter than it'd actually be worth it, yeah?
I hope someone told you it wasn’t just the Saints that had a bounty program. lol Brett Favre wrote about it in his book. The Vikings had the same thing in place. Soooo..
To answer your question on why football players don’t target star players, that was a scandal called “bountygate” where Sean Payton encouraged his players to target star players on the opposing team in the playoffs
0:21 aaron boone (the manager) was basically saying the umpire made a horrible call he drew a line in the dirt (umpires hate lines in dirt) then mocked his (the umpires) strikeout call
Don’t act like it was just the Saints. lol Brett Favre talked about it in his book. The Vikings had the same system in place. But the NFL had to make an example out of someone.
