The more polite brand of hockey back in the day.
Posted on 01/18/2018 10:12:51 AM PST by C19fan
Concussions do not cause long-term neurological disease - it is repeated exposure to tackles, even mild ones, that wreck the brains of athletes such as football players and boxers, a major new study has found. The groundbreaking paper published today by the same Boston University team that diagnosed disgraced former Patriots star Aaron Hernandez with CTE last year is the first to show how sports tackles directly cause the devastating brain disease, which causes aggression, dementia and suicidal thoughts.
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When Insurance Companies choose no longer to insure it.
Is more a question of when football will be banned not if?
1 posted on 1/18/2018, 10:12:51 AM by C19fan
To: C19fan
When Insurance Companies choose no longer to insure it.
2 posted on 1/18/2018, 10:13:52 AM by dfwgator
Want to fix this? Go back to leather helmets with no facemask.
Yep!.................Good old fashioned Smash-mouth football!...................
It won’t go away, but it will be continually modified to minimize impacts. Striking the ball with your head will be removed from soccer. Anyone who has ever spent much time in an armored vehicle with the military can suffer the same repeated jarring syndrome. The brain is easily bruised and public opinion is easily shaken.
A few more Hollywood movies about the problem should finish what they started.
You’d very rarely see someone lead with their head with a leather helmet and no facemask!
It would probably lead to better tackling.
Yep
It sure would! AND no more of these ‘Flying Tackles’ helmet to chest of the QB or RB..................
Very astute observation Sir.....
The more polite brand of hockey back in the day.
A way to check is to see if there’s a similar CTE correlation in rugby and Australian rules football players.
Heeeyyyy, those aren’t the Hanson brothers!
Soccer players coming up with Parkinson’s a lot, because of the practice of “heading” the ball.
Interviewer: From the plastic arts we turn to football. Last night in the Stadium of Light, Jarrow, we witnessed the resuscitation of a great footballing tradition, when Jarrow United came of age, in a European sense, with an almost Proustian display of modern existentialist football. Vimally annihilating by midfield moral argument the now surely obsolescent catennachio defensive philosophy of Signor Alberto Fanffino. Bologna indeed were a side intellectually out argued by a Jarrow team thrusting and bursting with aggressive Kantian positivism and outstanding in this fine Jarrow team was my man of the match, the arch-thinker, free scheming, scarcely ever to be curbed, midfield coguoscento, Jimmy Buzzard.
Buzzard: Good evening Brian.
Interviewer: Jimmy, at least one ageing football commentator was gladdened last night by the sight of an English footballer breaking free of the limpid tentacles of packed Mediterranean defence.
Buzzard: Good evening Brian.
Interviewer: Were you surprised at the way the Italians ceded midfield dominance so early on in the game?
Buzzard: Well Brian... I'm opening a boutique.
Interviewer: This is of course symptomatic of a new breed of footballer as it is indeed symptomatic of your whole genre of player, is it not?
Buzzard: Good evening Brian.
Interviewer: What I'm getting at, Jimmy, is you seem to have discovered a new concept with a mode in which you dissected the Italian defence, last night.
Buzzard: (pauses for thought) I hit the ball first time and there it was in the back of the net. (smiles and looks around)
Interviewer: Do you think Jarrow will adopt a more defensive posture for the first leg of the next tie in Turkey?
Buzzard: (confidently) I hit the ball first time and there it was in the back of the net.
Interviewer: Yes, yes - but have you any plans for dealing with the free-scoring Turkish forwards?
Buzzard: Well Brian... I'm opening a boutique.
'In any other setting I would be mandated by law to report this as child abuse. These children are getting hit on the head repeatedly, and I know it is putting them at risk of neurological disease,' he told Daily Mail Online. 'But instead here I am with all the other parents cheering because our team did a good tackle.
The answer is to ban football of course. Next we need to ban hockey, boxing, MMA, UFC, racing, diving, soccer and Rugby.
LMAO! Is that real?
It’s dead, Jim.
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