(Referee over knocked-down boxer)
"How many fingers am I holding up?"
Boxer:"Thursday."
Posted on 10/09/2024 11:26:26 AM PDT by nickcarraway
The NFL’s player safety and concussion protocols were drawn into the limelight for all the wrong reasons during Buffalo’s Week 5 loss to Houston on Sunday.
For the second week in a row, Bills quarterback Josh Allen found himself face down on the turf in a scene similar to the one in last week’s loss to Baltimore— a defender bearing down, an off-balance throw and a grimace-inducing blow to the head.
This story featured a new wrinkle, though: smelling salts.
The big hit Allen took late in Sunday’s game drew the attention of the league’s concussion spotter, though the quarterback promptly passed his evaluation and was cleared to return to play. Allen huffed a smelling salt—a mixture of ammonia and other chemicals, used in the medical field to help revive people who have fainted—before trotting back out onto the field.
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Yes, and it’s getting very annoying very fast.
Image and audio too.
That Jet Blast might send him into a coma.
Both hemispheres of the brain now cavernous and forever fried!!
Being knocked unconscious would be enough for me to take the rest of the day off
If he were a boxer he wouldn’t have been allowed to continue.
Hahahaha...
I think the problem isn’t the smelling salts so much as the finishing the game. If you get knocked you’re almost certainly concussed. If you want to claim to care about player health in general and concussions in particular needing smelling salts should be the end of that player’s day.
Oh no!!! They let them hit the QB.
Preludin injection would have been my personal choice frankly
Just a few dudes trying to get their 30 seconds of fame ...
That’s EXACTLY what they’re there for!
I know, they play football on fake turf, that allows high speeds, and injures more people. All for money. Grass fields, and you won’t have people getting concussed from their helmeted head bouncing on the grass. You just won’t.
Was his last, unforgiveable series of missed throws to lose the game a result of his concussion?
They should issue smelling salts to every moron that pays the big buck to watch brain damaged knuckleheads knock the crap out of each other because it’s the only skill they came out of “college” with.
As long as they don’t use bath salts...
Now that makes sense
(Referee over knocked-down boxer)
"How many fingers am I holding up?"
Boxer:"Thursday."
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