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Damar Hamlin’s Collapse Highlights the Violence Black Men Experience in Football
Scientific American ^ | January 6th, 2023 | Tracie Canada

Posted on 01/07/2023 6:15:17 PM PST by shadowlands1960

The “terrifyingly ordinary” nature of football’s violence disproportionately affects Black men

Millions of people watched as Damar Hamlin, a 24-year-old player in the National Football League (NFL), executed a seemingly routine tackle during a highly anticipated Monday Night Football game. Immediately after, Hamlin rose to his feet and then collapsed. Players from his team, the Buffalo Bills, and the opposing team, the Cincinnati Bengals, created a tight huddle around him on the field as medical personnel tried to revive him. We learned the next day that Hamlin suffered a cardiac arrest; his heart had suddenly stopped working.

This scene was horrific for both its regularity and its exceptionality. Matt Gutman of ABC tweeted as much: “The scariest part of this is that the hit was in fact not scary. It looked terrifyingly ordinary.” The ordinariness of men running into each other at full speed represents a normalized—even rationalized—violence that is routine to this American game.

This ordinary violence has always riddled the sport and it affects all players. But Black players are disproportionately affected. While Black men are severely underrepresented in positions of power across football organizations, such as coaching and management, they are overrepresented on the gridiron. Non-white players account for 70 percent of the NFL; nearly half of all Division I college football players are Black. Further, through a process called racial stacking, coaches racially segregate athletes by playing position. These demographic discrepancies place Black athletes at a higher risk during play.

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To: shadowlands1960

Jimmy the Greek tried to explain this back in 1988 and everybody got pissed off at him.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1988/01/17/jimmy-the-greek-fired-by-cbs-for-his-remarks/27536e46-3031-40c2-bb2b-f912ec518f80/


41 posted on 01/07/2023 6:49:25 PM PST by V1Rotate
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To: shadowlands1960

I think the peak in participation among youths in football was 20 years ago. There’s too many distractions today. And I am not even talking about the woke crap.


42 posted on 01/07/2023 6:51:27 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Tom Brady has taken plenty of really big hits over his 20 (!) plus years in the league. One of the toughest and most durable quarterbacks ever.


43 posted on 01/07/2023 6:51:39 PM PST by Third Person
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To: shadowlands1960

I clicked through and it really isn’t the Babylon Bee. I had to see for myself.


44 posted on 01/07/2023 6:52:04 PM PST by Dahoser (I finally figured out what to call him: Fakephonyfraudident Biden.)
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To: V1Rotate

I watched it when it happened.. even back then I knew he just lost his job.


45 posted on 01/07/2023 6:52:34 PM PST by shadowlands1960 (We live in a world of intolerance masked as tolerance. RUSH LIMBAUGH)
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To: Williams
Blacks have most of the positions and money in football so they are victims. Incredible.

Aha! How many hockey players are black!?

46 posted on 01/07/2023 6:53:29 PM PST by IncPen ("Inside of every progressive is a Totalitarian screaming to get out" ~ David Horowitz)
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To: shadowlands1960

Black men play football. They are in fact the majority of professional football players. It is a violent game. Therefore they experience violence playing the game.


47 posted on 01/07/2023 6:55:47 PM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized of man. )
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To: shadowlands1960

It’s just amazing what utter crap gets printed in Pseudo-Scientific American now.


48 posted on 01/07/2023 6:56:16 PM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: shadowlands1960

Just think of how they would fare if football was still played by the rules pre-1990s...

That was when football was a real blood and guts sport...


49 posted on 01/07/2023 6:57:54 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is the next Sam Adams when we so desperatly need him)
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To: Third Person

It’s gigantic amount of water he drinks every day.
The guy is like a hydraulic shock absorber.


50 posted on 01/07/2023 6:58:06 PM PST by nascarnation
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To: dfwgator
I’ve been predicting this, as now the overwhelming number of players are black, and we do see white parents discouraging their kids from playing football out of concern for their long-term health.

Conversely, there is so much gnashing of teeth that blacks are no longer pursuing baseball. If they don't want to play baseball, so what? Who can force them to do so?!

51 posted on 01/07/2023 6:59:08 PM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized of man. )
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To: shadowlands1960

Science.


52 posted on 01/07/2023 7:02:25 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: SuperLuminal

Exactly the only reason Tom Brady is playing football at 45 years old is due to the rule changes favoring offense and particularly how you can barely hit QB’s now without it being called a penalty.


53 posted on 01/07/2023 7:03:56 PM PST by SlipperySlope99
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To: shadowlands1960

More racist BS!

I am SICK TO DEATH OF THE PSEUDO-RACISM being thrown about by LIEberal/Socialist/Marxist/Communist/Fascist anti-American pimps who seek at every turn to destroy the USA!


54 posted on 01/07/2023 7:04:16 PM PST by Taxman (SAVE AMERICA! VOTE REPUBLICAN IN 2023 AND 2024!)
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55 posted on 01/07/2023 7:04:45 PM PST by shadowlands1960 (We live in a world of intolerance masked as tolerance. RUSH LIMBAUGH)
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To: shadowlands1960

Please he was barely touched I’ve seen worse in pro wrestling and that’s totally scripted and fake.. damar is a victim of the vaccine 24 yr olds don’t literally drop dead on the field from a simple tackle


56 posted on 01/07/2023 7:05:39 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: shadowlands1960

Good thing I don’t watch it. /s


57 posted on 01/07/2023 7:06:29 PM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: logi_cal869

I haven’t watched the NFL for about 6 years... whenever it was the Cowboys took the knee...


58 posted on 01/07/2023 7:07:55 PM PST by shadowlands1960 (We live in a world of intolerance masked as tolerance. RUSH LIMBAUGH)
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To: shadowlands1960

Remember when black Joe Theisman broke his leg when white Lawrence Taylor tackled him?


59 posted on 01/07/2023 7:09:04 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: Sarah Barracuda

I was not familiar with this phenomenon but my daughter showed me a chest shield made of ballistic fiber that she purchased two years ago that my grandson wears for baseball and football.


60 posted on 01/07/2023 7:10:09 PM PST by nascarnation
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