Posted on 09/24/2024 5:41:02 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Unfortunately, Parkinson’s only goes in one direction. I have a brother in law struggling with it, has been for a couple years. It may be possible to slow it down, but it’s a one way street.
And didn’t disrespect the Flag or this country.
Ha-ha! I’m sure that remark sounds familiar to several guys.
Doesn't matter. The recovering substance abuser's claim is outlandish.
He got sacked on average about 28 times per season. Probably took another 28 solid hits per season that weren't recorded as sacks.
Why aren't the Staubachs, Tarkentons, Grieses, etc not blaming their getting old on football?
With the level of athleticism in the league, I can see a time where the QB will have flags and if they’re grabbed, it will count as a tackle.
They probably have CTE. We'll have to examine their brains to find out.
Seems the problem is the helmet. So we'll have to get rid of the helmet and make football more like rugby.
Well said.
Not very well informed are you?
The Packers had absolutely no say whatever whete Farve went after he was dealt, that’s right, DEALT, to the NY Jets FIRST, then he was hurt playing for the Jets and went to play for the Vikings.
Get your facts straight.
So, what’s your expert opinion of Rodgers then?
Here is mine. Both Farve and Rodgers were expensive potentially costing that organization the ability to hold onto key players for positions keeping the team successful in future seasons.
Both of them should have been dealt to other teams long before their time. Key positions could have been selected for, both in drafts and free agencies.
Organization couldn’t because of the limits placed because of salary caps caused by the outrageous signing salaries given to these two players.
And the organization has done it once again with Love...as well as a few others.
I’m not buying the 1000 concussions either
He’d have to have an concussion in every game he played going back to Peewee football and nearly every other practice!
He’d be brain dead(maybe that explains him playing for the vikings!
That's the thing about CTE. It's bad because you don't get it from a couple of concussions where you're knocked out. Football players get CTE from sub-concussions. They get them in every game from every play unless you're the kicker or the punter.
“But with time, he realized every helmet rattle and every turf impact counts. “You get tackled and your head hits the turf… There was ringing or stars going, flash bulbs.””
Okay now this is absolutely BS!
In my short experience of playing defensive end I was taught to lead with my head and hit em in the numbers.
More than once I saw a few “stars” or took time to stand up, but knock on wood, I haven’t shown any signs of CTE.
If merely hitting the deck is enough to cause this then every running back, defensive lineman, back should be brain dead
I’m not saying getting your egg slammed to the turf is good for your health but neither is climbing in a coal car and descending under a mountain that gravity is trying to bring down on you.
And more than a few football players would have lived and died unknown lives doing blue collar lives or in jail.
You have to weight the pros and cons!
I do agree with his no tackling before 14 years old.
Gotta give their tiny brains and bodies to grow before getting some kind of brutal bad breaks.
Let them start after they’ve strengthen their frame and brain a bit more.
So many chances occur during puberty without getting banged up every week
It’s not that cut and dried as it sounds:
“The study has several important limitations, most notably the lack of a control group, and selection bias in the brain collection itself—families of players with symptoms of CTE are far more likely to donate brains to research than those without signs of the disease””
I remember reading cases of little old grannie that died and had their brains dissected and found symptoms of CTE as well and they lived a sedate normal housewife life.
Again, I’m not saying it’s great to get your slammed into rock hard astroturf but it’s a choice of each individual to decide.
Right. So that is limited data. Really, we don't have the data on thousands of players who've spent time in the NFL. They may be fine for all we know.
But from what we've seen so far, there is a risk to playing football and you may develop CTE. And if you've spent a long time in the NFL like Brett Favre did (20 years), you WILL get CTE.
I don’t want to seem callous but every one of these football players knew they were getting paid a lot of money to play a violent physical game.
I’m a Packer fan and the packers boses wanted to move on to Arron Rogers. Farve didn’t do anything wrong. Neither did the packers boses.
Yep. Simply not credible. He'd be playing every game in an impaired state.
Freepers should be able to recognize when the media is told to create a narrative, whip up a story and push it.
I believe hussein's crowd was behind the media anti-football frenzy which suddenly arose just in time for all the kneeling and rioting then simultaneously faded away.
Yes football is rough and there are many examples of former players who for whatever reason didn't after multiple major injuries know when to say when and hang up the cleats. Now they deal with the after effects. But such can be said of former athletes from many other sports.
Instead of spending the rest of his career sitting on the bench at GB and making backup QB money, he accepted a trade to the Jets for starting QB money. When things didn’t workout there, he was able to get starting QB money in Minnesota. His beating the Pack twice that year and going on to the NFC Championship is on the NFL’s greatest comeback stories. Losing Reggie White was a heart breaker. Losing Farve was waving goodbye to a QB that was throwing interceptions and losing games for you. He didn’t stab anybody in the heart. He just beat his old team, and I bet he felt great doing it.
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