RMR: Rick Plays Powerchair Football

Rick trains with Canada's national electric wheelchair soccer team as they prepare for the World Cup in France.

Category:

Comedy

Tags:

• RMR
• Rick
• Mercer
• Report
• Rick Mercer
• Rick Mercer Report
• Mercer Report
• Powerchair Football
• Canada
• Canadian
• electric
• wheelchair
• soccer
• team
• World Cup
• Paris
• France
• National

[Arazig]

I am always impressed by the way Rick insists on shaking people's hand when he interviews them. Even for someone like Luke, who can't easily reach for a handshake himself, Rick makes a point of treating him like everyone else and reaching over to shake his hand. It's simple, but not something most people would automatically think to do...

[ComedyNurd]

hahaha Rick turned it into bumper cars.

[AlexBrasil32]

Awsome interview! I had the pleasure to met these guys in France , where i represent Brazil with partners from Rio.Well the world cup in Paris, made me realize that this event is the only one that put together the higher number of persons with disabilities on power chair in the world,As a physicaltherapist it was and is being an privilege.

[huttet1]

@bunnydragon88 You are what is wrong with the PC crowd. You are making a big deal of something that you perceive to be a discriminatory comment, but is actually not. If you look at @lukegalvani 's comment before you made your initial stupid comment, he was there for this video. He is someone you would claim to be offended by Rick's comment, and judging by his replies to your self-righteous posts has no problem whatsoever with them and sees them for what they are, a joke. Get over yourself.

[huttet1]

@bunnydragon88 You are what is wrong with the PC crowd. You are making a big deal of something that you perceive to be a discriminatory comment, but is actually not. If you look at @lukegalvani 's comment before you made your initial stupid comment, he was there for this video. He is someone you would claim to be offended by Rick's comment, and judging by his replies to your self-righteous posts has no problem whatsoever with them and sees them for what they are, a joke. Get over yourself.

[lukegalvani]

@bunnydragon88 you aren't being degraded or stereotyped. When giving Rick the waiver he was asking for the comment to be made. If you are against that little thing then you must be against other parts of this video too

[bunnydragon88]

@lukegalvani Some people don't feel like laughing when their existence is being degraded and stereotyped. I'm not sure how exactly it is sad to critique someone when what they are doing feeds into needless stereotypes about persons with physical disabilities, but I suppose everyone has there own perspective. People make jokes that are ill-conceived all the time and they get criticisms. That seems like a reasonable sequence of events to me.

[lukegalvani]

@bunnydragon88 Clearly you don't know how to understand a joke.., it's actually pretty sad that you're on the internet critiquing what Rick was saying when he was really just making a joke about signing a waiver

[bunnydragon88]

@lukegalvani My comment states that he makes a conflation of the case of having a neuro-muscular disorder and the case of being born with a physical disability by making the remark about "ending up in a wheelchair", which is a situation (i.e. being in a wheelchair) that can result from a broad range of circumstances. While having a knowledge of this sport is certainly ideal, it is unnecessary in order to identify that Rick handled his words without making consideration as to their implications.