fluffies these days, ain't it?
Posted on 08/21/2015 12:49:40 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Chris Borland's decision to retire from football after just one very promising season in the NFL was a sobering moment for a lot of people partaking in the sport in some capacity -- fans, players, coaches, etc. Borland made the decision after extensive research that went beyond a few inspired Google searches. He directly reached out to researchers, asked his own questions, and made a decision, for himself alone, that he would be better off quitting the sport and saving his brain from the accumulated damage of thousands of impacts.
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Correct but we don't see athletes like Tom Brady compete in boxing anymore. Soon it'll be the same with football.
Leather helmets were much safer.
It's not that modern helmets are battering rams, it's that, by preventing scalp and skull damage, they allow the velocity of collisions to increase and thereby increase the number and severity of concussions.
Very true about the launching. There is a greater emphasis on hits rather than on tackling by wrapping up, but that also may be a result of the overall speed of the game. Defenders are looking for a big, quick hit that provides an immediate stop and possibly a turnover. I suppose that can be legislated against by changing the rules so you can’t leave your feet to launch yourself (some of that has already been done).
Also, the lack of effective drug policy allow superfast recovery times through chemistry for both work outs and just between games during the season. Thus 300lb behemoths that are superfast and heal like wolverine.
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Well, helmets are designed to protect against skull fractures, so players today are more protected against that, but they do nothing to stop the whiplash effect caused by a sudden stop.
I have been a big fan since the 66 Ice Bowl, first game I recall watching with Dad in Irving Texas, I was 9 - still a Cowboys fan 50 years later but that is the only team I have to watch. Still watch the AFC and NFC Championships and SB but that is about it.
College football, there is the game the way it should be.
It took leather balls to make that suggestion
Is that a good thing?
Is their really evidence football is worse? Chris Borland got his concussion playing soccer, but he bashes football instead of bashing soccer.
Is that what the left wants? Take away all U.S. culture and remake the country into a European socialist state? Let’s get rid of guns, Thanksgiving, and thinking for ourselves, too.
It's no secret. There's been a lot of rule changes since then that favor the offense.
There was a time when NFL players actually needed real jobs in the off season to earn a good living.
My Dad used to buy his insurance from Lou “the toe” Groza in Cleveland
Bingo. It serves the same purpose for the same kind of fanatics.
Plus, our culture is fast approaching a similar end as the Romans', too.
While diets and weightlifting are better now, the main reason players are so much bigger these days is unlimited substitutioning. When players played both offense and defense, as the rules required until the '50s, they wouldn't have had the stamina to complete the game at anything like today's weights. Chuck Bednarik of the Eagles, c. 1960, was the last two-way player.
So the average retired NFL player is mentally disabled, and few NFL make it to age 60? I’d love to see that study.
“Is that what the left wants? Take away all U.S. culture”
Amen, and add to that any thing remotely masculine.
That is exactly what this attack on football is.
Women can’t compete at the NFL level, and the left can’t have that.
Also all men must pattern themselves to look and act like the skinny fag in the WH.
Real men, gentlemen, men who defend women, are not allowed in today’s culture.
RE: I stopped watching years ago. The only games I see are when I pass through the room the Mrs is watching in.
Guess we know who wears the pants in your family. LOL...j/k
fluffies these days, ain't it?
LOL!
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