Posted on 07/27/2017 8:37:25 PM PDT by Rockitz
And you're right to!
The sample, as you mentioned, is very, very small. And it was not randomly chosen -- it was self-selected.
It certainly points to a potential problem, but it doesn't prove one.
It looks like he made fun of the big trucks his teammates drive.
Being an NFL player, even a lineman, is a real leg opener.
https://www.wired.com/story/brain-trauma-scientists-turn-their-attention-to-soccer/
I know of a kid who was hit in the head by a thrown basketball who got a concussion and had amnesia for several days. Hits to the head are not a great idea. As light as those balls are, at 50 mi/h they can ding the head pretty good.
Did you read the rest of what I wrote? Or the very and ever imports and word “if” in my statements? Since tha sample set is self selective no doubt the rate is higher than the norm in the set, but that doesn’t make a counter case that CTE is rare.
The NFL knew, knew before CTE was ever discovered that about 30% of former players would have cognitive and other issues later in life and covered it up and lied about it for years.
Smaller gloves appears to be a factor in MMA having fewer concussions than boxing, of course there is also less head striking due to the availability of other techniques.
I don't think it'll take that long. We have park districts and travel leagues that are already cancelling their seasons because they can't get enough players anymore. I even read of a high school football team that disbanded for the same reason.
Parents are pulling their kids out of football because of the CTE issue. The supply line to the NFL is already drying up.
Without the figure for non-football playing young adult males, this number is useless.
I guess....I’m in big trouble for banging my head against the wall...for 50 years.
Anyone stupid enough to play the game probably had brain damage to begin with. I hope the whole sport dies along with basketball and other “professional” sports.
Far to many parents push their children into sports in the hope that their child will be talented enough to get a scholarship to college. Not all but many of those kids never graduate. It’s a complete waste of time. Their time would be better spent hitting the books.
I gave up on collegiate and professional sports when I saw in 1981, first hand, the massive cheating and corruption within the ACC to keep functional illiterates eligible for play with bogus classes and falsified grades. The school used atheletes like Kleenex to make money and then discarded them when they are no longer useful.
REAL men. Whatever! Monosyllabic and steroid riddled out retards are not what I’d call real men. John Urschel is the exception, not the rule.
I met one starter for my Alma mater’s football team who got a bachelors in mechanical engineering and a masters in ME. The rest never graduated. I respected him.
I’d rather see games played by real student athletes.
While sports programs die they should also kill off the bogus paper (degree) mills and return to classic western civ. liberal arts or STEM majors and get the .gov out of student loans.
And get rid of the helmets.
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