Posted on 09/04/2017 3:12:40 PM PDT by TBP
CTE is a degenerative brain disease confirmable only after death, and often caused by repeated blows to the head that knock the brain against the skull. The cumulative impacts of hundreds of supposedly minor blows can have the cumulative effect of many concussions.
The New York Times recently reported Stanford researchers’ data showing “that one college offensive lineman sustained 62 of these hits in a single game.
Each one came with an average force on the player’s head equivalent to what you would see if he had driven his car into a brick wall at 30 mph.”
Boston University researchers found CTE in 110 of 111 brains of deceased NFL players. In 53 other brains from college players, 48 had CTE.
On Alabama’s undefeated 1966 team, only 21 percent of the players weighed more than 200 pounds. The heaviest weighed 223; the linemen averaged 194. The quarterback, who weighed 177, was Ken Stabler, who went on to a Hall of Fame NFL career — and to “moderately severe” CTE before death from cancer.
Today, many high-school teams are much beefier than the 1966 Crimson Tide. Of the 114 members of Alabama’s 2016 squad, just 25 weighed less than 200 and 20 weighed more than 300. In 1980, only three NFL players weighed 300 or more pounds. Last season, 390 weighed 300 pounds or more, and six topped 350.
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That is not the reason.
Funny that George Will did not mention Colin Kaepernick. Maybe George just ran out of space.
Meh.
B*tchy and political.
PASS.
Yes, it is a reason.
Concussions are not the only brain damage that NFL players and owners are suffering from.
Roger Goodell, Kaepercrap et all have character issues.
One of them. The National Anthem protests are another.
crayola glasses + leather elbow patches = SPORTS FAN..?
Sorry, that doesn’t work.
It’s one of the reasons. The protests are the main one, but this doesn’t help any.
The man has a Ph.D., but his forte is baseball, not football. Shut up George. Whenever you conflate sports and politics, nothing makes sense, especially in this case. You forgot Kaperpunk, but not by accident.
I think George Will has CTE from pounding his head against the wall thumping the conservative agenda
What a fag Will is.
1. The anti-American protests
2. Overexposure with Thursday night games
3. A finger to America with London games
4. Growing number of NFL thugs
Just to name a few...
Chris Rock was right.
The lawyers are sharpening their sticks.
Notice every time the ‘lack of participation’ of fans comes up, the injury factor gets mentioned.
When the players ‘talk’ themselves out of a job, watch the head injuries become a Racial Issue because THE WHITE MAN used Black Players - and unfairly cut some White Players - just so they could get more Blacks in a position to get permanent damage.
Hope one NEVER brings up the Christians vs the Lions in the ‘Old Roman Days’ as the Blacks will liken themselves as the Christians being thrown to the Lions(WHITE OWNERS and share holders) just to exploit the Black man for the Sport of the White People and Drug Dealers to bet on.
Johnny Cochrane is itching to come back...
I miss the days of John Madden and Pat Summerall on CBS. One talked too much and the other one didn’t say enough, but they balanced each other and made any game they broadcast an enjoyable one to watch.
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