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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The race card is again being played by stupid idiots who want war.
People should ask if he had a recent mRNA covid inoculation. Inoculations are causing blood clots and Myocardis in the soccer world and in other athletics.
Race card...its laughable.
Do you remember when “Scientific American” was Scientific? And American?
Which position did Mr. Hamlin play?
Which positions on a football team are most likely to meet with aggressive physical contact?
It seems companies of any scope these days are all in on this ESG nonsense... they are all watching each other and keeping score. This was this publication’s turn to virtue signal.
If this is because of violence against black men in sports, then we should ban black men from sports.
For their own protection.
It’s the least we can do... Perhaps get them into something more socially enriching... badminton perhaps..
I am so sick of this crap. I really don’t care anymore.
CC
Simple enough solution to wipe out this systemic racism. Forbid NFL teams from hiring Blacks. It’s the Woke thing to do.
I guessed the Author.
The game was different 20 years ago. Brett Favre was still playing back then. He took a lot of hits too. The league started to protect QBs when Brady came in.
I love the disclaimer at the end of this nonsense.
“The views expressed in this article are not necessarily the views of Scientific American.”
Pure comedy gold that statement is.
Next.
It really got started when Charles Martin of the Packers put a dirty hit on McMahon of the Bears... think that was in ‘86.
Yep...
So black football players are affected differently than white or other football layers?
Does everything have to have a racial element to it?
Or, perhaps, it had something to do with the Covid vax.
I’ve always thought a large proportion of the injuries could be prevented by putting an upper weight limit on all players - 200lb say, enforcing a “normal” young male physique.
Lower weight limits for younger players.
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