Oh, Ifinnegan, thank you so much for your post. There is definitely way too much hype in this - that recent anti-football movie about concussions, for example. Tell me that isn’t propaganda for some nefarious plan to: get rid of football altogether; make it a kinder-gentler sport; make the football players take estrogen. God only knows what it will be, but I haven’t noticed a player yet who was held at gunpoint. This man, RIP, died of colon cancer NOT CTE, and that is barely mentioned in an aside.imho
“Recent studies show that soccer has surpassed football,” said neurologist Peter A. Puzio from Augusta Health Neurology. “As soccer grows in popularity, so does the incidence of concussion. There’s not a perfect a number because it all depends on the severity of each one, but there is a cumulative effect of concussions. One is bad, but it depends on the severity of the concussions.”
At the same time, he says, football has seen measures taken to reduce incidence of concussions.