When will we learn that the world doesn’t understand football? I’m not talking about that crap they call football, I’m talking about the straight up, smash mouth, pigskin tossin, gridiron battles that WE call football. The Dallas Cowboys, the Pittsburgh Steelers.. Pop Warner, Friday Night Lights.. USC, Notre Dame.. Real American football.If the world understood the game we love, NFL Europa wouldn’t have folded, the Wembley Stadium field wouldn’t have looked like a dirt bike track during the Dolphins/Giants game, and the Chinese wouldn’t be f’n up our chin straps.

The chin straps, made in China, were sold at sporting good stores nationwide and on Nike’s Web site from April 2006 through October 2007.

Users are at risk of injury when the chin strap’s plastic cup breaks as a result of contact, exposing the player to facial or head injuries, according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission. The Beaverton, Ore., company has received two reports of concussions, two reports of facial lacerations requiring stitches, and a report of a broken nose.

Sounds like a damn good chin strap to me. It breaks on contact, leading to lacerations and/or concussions. Dope.. And I don’t care that the report says the faulty straps were only on sale from April 06 – October 07, I know Wayne Chrebet had one.

And China, lemme holla at you for a minute… You’re slowly starting to piss us (U.S.) off. It’s like you have a list of things that Americans are sensitive towards. First you poison children with lead covered toys, then you attack football. I’ll tell you right now, you’re one “Chinese clothes made from the exhumed corpse of the original Lassie” special report away from becoming the new France.

Nike Chin Straps Recalled After Injuries. Courtesy of The Associated Press

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