I don’t expect it, and I wouldn’t call for it — but one solution has nothing to do with the helmet. They could mandate that no one can be a professional football player if they weigh over 250 pounds.
Head injuries would greatly diminish, right?
But they all want their cake and they want to eat it too. “Give me guys who are six foot seven and weight 400 pounds, and oh by the way, make sure no one every gets hurt.”
That’s not a serious position.
If it just doesn’t make the game faster, it might work. It would seem to be stopping the potential severity of blows to the brain caused by player’s mass as opposed to just the number of total blows. I’m not sure if anyone knows if that would actually help the supposed problem at this point. Maybe one way to know is if heavyweight boxers generally have more problems with their brain because they hit harder than lightweights or flyweights.
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