A football career would ﷽be out of bounds for any son of President Obama, who compared the game to smoking in an interview with .
“I would not let my son play pro football,” the First Fan said in a POTUS prꦉofile for the magazin๊e’s Jan. 27 issue.
The president’s love of sports is well documented, and his favorite NFL team is the Chicago Bears. 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 g⛄uys, 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?”
The President’s position on concussion-related injuries and deaths in football appears to have evolved — at least as far as his imaginary offspring are concerned. Before last year’s Super Bowl he , “I’m a big football fan, but I have to tell you if I had a son, I’d ha🐷ve to think long and hard before I let him play football. 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.”
Those comments last year drew a mixed reaction, with Ba💜ltimore Ravens safety Ed Reed agreeing, and San Francisco 49ers head coach Jim Harbaugh joking that his inf🌳ant son, Jack, would grow up kick butt in the president’s kinder-gentler NFL.
His latest remarks were quickly flagged on Twitter, with commenters ribb♍ing him for the smoking comparison, the ♈imaginary son and for dissing the NFL after the league agreed to help promote Obamacare.