Wasn’t there a study recently that showed that soccer players can develop minor (but significant) brain damage from repeated heading of the ball, like a much less severe version of boxers becoming punch-drunk?
In any case, there’s still too much leading with the head in football tackling. If you look at sports like Australian rules football and rugby league or union, sports where they wear basically no padding and still have some truly horrendous hits and collisions, they somehow have fewer injuries. They don’t lead with their heads, they lead with their shoulders; and also, the players aren’t roided-up 290-pound monstrosities. They’re often big, but not freakish to the levels of an NFL lineman.
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