Posted on 12/01/2014 9:30:15 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
Researchers have found that playing a single season of football can change the brain of a teenager - even if they don't suffer concussions.
Even though players were not concussed during the season, researchers found abnormalities similar to the effects of mild traumatic brain injury.
They called for more research into the area, which raises new questions over the safety of contact sports for young adults.
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OMG!!!! Oh man could you see that!
Me too!
Guess it explains why I’m so feeble minded 50 years later!
I think I’m in love :P
I think I’m in love :P
There is a happy medium between taking a risk or two and subjecting your brain to consistent abuse. I can climb mountains in such a way as to minimize my chances of falling hundreds of feet, but there is no way to play football without your head getting smashed around.
A civilization of cowards.
Yep, by the time they get to the NFL they wear their IQs on their shirts to keep track.
Whenever the microwave was revved up, was it Cousin Eddie that would pee himself and forget his name for 30 minutes?
“A civilization of cowards.”
If the Hypersensitives had been in charge when the Nina, Pinta And Santa Maria were setting sail, it would have never happened. The Columbus Day protesters would have nothing to live for. The Ferguson crowd would still be in Africa (don’t think they’d like that much). The “community organizers” wouldn’t exist! Obola would have never - just damn.
We are so screwed.
How do they know that it's not due to massive quantities of beer consumed after those weekend games?
It has nothing to do with football.
Just attending public high school damages your brain, often beyond repair.
So what you are suggesting is that high school football be banned.
Is that your point?
You should see what a season of snowboarding, mountain or rock climbing can do to your body and brain.
I’ve knocked myself out once and had two concussions snowboarding. Also fractured two ribs on two different seasons.
Ran into a few trees. Lucky i had a helmet and some dirt bike gear on.
Could have sucked.
Fell down the side of a mountain a few times and cut everything.
Which reminds of a time I went snowboarding and it was freaking hot as hell. 60° doesn’t seem hot but, at 10,000 feet, it feels like 80°.
So, I had on a pair of shorts and a t-shirt.
I’m standing and waiting for a friend to get off the lift.
Here he comes....looking right at me, smiling real big.
I start yelling to stoo looking at me and before I could move, this 6’-2”, 275# dork ran right into me, knocking me over the side of a cliff.
I tumbled 40 feet and when I got up grabbed my helmet.
Another snowboarder immediately came to me and wanted to know if I was alright.
I said “Yeah” as I grabbed my helmet to be sure.
My buddy came down and starts saying sorry and the other guy says “You’ll be lucky if this guy doesn’t kick your ass!”
At this point he says “Hey man. You are bleeding from head to toe”.
I looked and sure enough my knees, tibias, elbows and forearms were all bleeding.
Now I’m standing there and thinking “Damnit!”
At that point my buddy is apologizing and he says “You got some blood on your face too” looking intently and close.
“After I clean this Shiite up, you owe me drinks for the rest of the weekend and you know what I freakin drink, you turd”.
Pulled a can of “Quick Seal” out and after using the water from my camelback to rinse everything, sprayed all the cuts, the covered them with Tegaderm bandages.
Then skin patrol rode up and luckily they knee how to use my med kit and they took care of my face gash with my micro bandages.
My buddy was true and indeed bought my drinks all weekend, which started with a couple doubles the second I got back to lodge.
We then went back out for a couple hours and finished the day.
I must have looked kewel, as I had chicks coming on to me all night.
The point is: You play rough sports, you’re gonna get roughed up.
Hell, I almost broke my back surfing and another time cracked my coxxic bone while figure skating.
Done myself in a few other times doing simple things.
Life happens.
If every retarded activity were banned there would be very little left for the masses to entertain themselves with.
But...but...in high school we were all indoctrinated that football players & star cheerleaders possessed those superior genes with which to continue the best of the human race, and the rest of us were nothing but insignificant nerds.
Is...nothing...sacred?
Blah! Blah! Blah!
But smoking pot is a ok. Right?
MSNBC can damage the brain a lot faster. I’ll take football.
Where’s the soccer research? (crickets chirping in background)
Spoken like a true elitist.
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