Posted on 08/31/2015 7:35:09 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Traumatic brain injury is the skeleton that the NFL has tried to keep in its closet for far too long. Now that's coming to light on the brightest stage possible. Will Smith's new movie Concussion will expose people who don't care about football to the plights of chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE.
Smith plays Dr. Bennet Omalu, the former NFL and NCAA doctor who first identified chronic brain injury common factor in the deaths of several former NFL players, including Junior Seau following his death in 2012. The trailer presents the NFL as a dangerous syndicate working to discredit, disavow and coerce a doctor into hiding his research, while Omalu strives to present the truth.
It's going to be fascinating to see this movie hit theaters.
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It will be just like when North Dallas Forty came out an exposed how the NFL teams used painkillers.
I wasn't even born when the movie first came out and I just saw it recently on Netflix, yeah it's quite revealing.
Maybe the news media will stop talking about gun control for a week.
Libs have been trying to destroy football since its inception. In fact, they petitioned TR to ban the sport, but he compromised and demanded the game be made more safe.
Gee, you mean football is dangerous? Who woulda thunk it? Next thing you’ll know, they’ll say that boxing is hazardous to your health.
In some sports, it seems to me that professional athletes are making a deal with the Devil for a few years of fortune and glory.
The NFL has been funding medical research in TBI for many years.
It doesnt take doctors and movies to tell you that people who play pro sports wear their bodies out faster and can have different types of life shortening injuries than people who dont.
They also get compensated much differently than the average person does.
Do you think the reality of concussions is a liberal thing? I’m a former football player. I’m as conservative as they come. There is no way I will allow any of my four sons to play the game. Too high of a price has been paid, with many unaware of the long-term deficiencies with which they will live for the remainder of their lives. It’s not worth it.
Dressing up feminism in African-accented clothes and a stethoscope, the better to destroy a US mainstay of manly culture:
BITCHIFICATION.
This is Erin Brocoslut’s The Pelican Brief, years later.
Are you implying that he was wrong to do so?
I agree with you.
I haven’t seen a Will Smith movie since I watched that dumbass, “Death By Jellyfish” movie at my son’s house. Geesh!
Why would anybody want to watch a bunch of murdering ghetto thugs run around on a basketball field?
LOL Field of Screams
Basketball field? Does not compute.
Ah, you, ah rearn quickry...Glasshoppa.
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If it’s a new Will Smith movie, I already hate it.
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