You mean that repeated hits to the head might lead to long term brain damage?
Gee. What a revelation.
Odd, what next finding pro boxers with cte injuries.
Regardless, you can expect the nfl to go full flag football sometime in the future.....because of cte and a myriad of other types of injuries, flag solves so many headaches. (No pun intended)
There’s a reason they ran that model in the pro bowl......a trial ballon to see if fans would accept the format.
They even took an informal poll of fans at the game and put it on the air......most if not all favorable of course.
My wife is watching me carefully for signs of CTE.... played D1 and professional football, rugby for 5 years, and hockey for most of my life in Canada. I can’t remember a football game that I didn’t have a searing headache afterwards. We were taught to lead with our head when we hit people back then.Countless times of getting my bell run. Three major concussions. Coach would make you sit down for 5 minutes shake it off and get back in there. My teaching associates haven’t noticed anything unusual yet and my behavior, but it does haunt you.
The NFL is a business that sells brats, beer and merch, they do that by fielding a game where grown men chase a ball around a field, the game is a vehicle for stadium money, tv money, radio money, concessions, and clothing lines. Once you realize that the game and player safety comes second all professional sports begin to shrink into insignificance.
First they tried to use CTE to ban football. When that didn't work they made the racist kneeling and BLM a thing in the NFL to alienate the fan base. That worked some, the NFL owners got the message, and now the owners are making the racist message fade back. Thus, CTE has to be tried again.
I'm not a NFL fan. In my state we love college football on Saturdays and leave Sundays for church. But I pay attention whenever the Dims look for any reason to keep Americans from getting together in events that are steeped in patriotism and masculinity.
But today’s players are less likely to develop CTE. Modern helmet designs, aggressive testing for concussions and much stricter rules regarding tackling has made brain injuries a lot less of an issue.