Uh, yeah, I can really see that…
No, your son would be busy beating up people in Florida. But it would be too violent to let him play football…
Via NY Post:
A football career would be out of bounds for any son of President Obama, who compared the game to smoking in an interview with The New Yorker.
“I would not let my son play pro football,” the First Fan said in a POTUS profile for the magazine’s Jan. 27 issue.
The president’s love of sports is well documented, and his favorite NFL team is the Pittsburgh Steelers. And while football’s escalating head-injury crisis is reason enough to keep a kid he doesn’t have off the field, it’s no reason to stop watching, he told Remnick.
“At this point, there’s a little bit of caveat emptor,” Obama said of NFL athletes. “These guys, they know what they’re doing. They know what they’re buying into. It is no longer a secret. It’s sort of the feeling I have about smokers, you know?”