Posted on 05/13/2012 2:37:42 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
With each bone-breaking, head-injuring hit, NFL players are killing themselves slowly. It’s not a possibility. It’s a fact, no less certain than the league’s immense profitability.
Football injuries can kill in a variety of ways. One particularly tragic way might be by making life unbearable for the afflicted. And autopsies have revealed that several former players who committed suicide suffered from brain trauma caused by repeated blows to the head.
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You are right and Jr. Played much longer than he should have.
I think it’s shameful for them to attack and blame the sport that gave them such a great opportunity.
Yeah well that is dress right dress with the America hater’s after they get what they want . Good post SP.
Two or three years in the $ million NFL should floorplan a guy for the rest of his life.
Staying longer must be ego.
It’s not that the old leather helmets provided good protection.
It’s that when you’re wearing one, you’d better hit with another part of your body!
It’s the counter-intuitive, law of unintended consequences - when you efficiently sheathe the head, it IS used as a battering ram. Correct! They would NEVER do that with a leather helmet.
Any attempt to conflate suicide with football, even the way it is played today, is an effort to castrate.
Not to t/j too much, but I’m convinced the directors - the ones who say; “Camera two!....go to camera 4, etc” (who show the game) did NOT play football.
How many times did you WANT to see a snot-bubbler get up, want the camera to linger on the scene... and instead, you get the qb’s face, or *something else*...?
Think about it. There’s a high percentage of faggotry in showbiz.
Ego ? That’s the 1st thing to kick in . Instead of building a bigger dream or mentoring other’s to be better than even they knew they could be ....... Something constructive .
No . He kills himself . Your on it Eric . Pure selfish ego .
Add to that, a career that would have them being pursued by hot cheerleaders and groupies from high school, be admired by millions, live the high life until they died -- I think a very high percentage of men would make the trade, to give up your old age, but be living large right up to the end.
I played football from the time I was 5 right through college. I was a running back and a strong safety type. I knocked people out and I got knocked out. I’m 60 now and suffering no ill effects from concussions including the one I got playing combat football in the Army sans equipment. I understand that the guys are bigger and faster but the equipment and technology are better as well and the money paid to pro football players is large.
But medical technology is such that a grown man can make a very informed decision. I would play all over again if I find the fountain of youth.
I think steroids are the real problem. Players retire, get off the steroids and then have mental problems. Not hard to figure out. Concussions are just a socially acceptable excuse for this pathetic behavior. Eliminate steroids and you would cut down on the size of these players colliding with each other as well.
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I think the small hits are exactly the problem...and a lot of these players have been taking small hits since they were playing football in pads since they were 5-6 years old.
My son played a year of football when he was maybe 9 or 10 years old. Got his only potential “concussion” in a scrimmage. It was a clean hit by a bigger kid. He wasn’t trying to crack his helmet but accidentally did. My son got up and claims he saw stars and didn’t remember his name for a couple plays and also forgot to tell the coach because he wanted to stay in the game since he wasn’t a starter.
I guess my point is that there are a lot of kids who are taking little unreported head shots really early in life, and I truly wonder if we’re starting our kids in organized football (i.e. pads and helmets) too early in their lives.
I think when I was a kid they didn’t really start tackle with pads until high school or junior high. We played tackle without pads but you didn’t lead with your head because it would hurt. Luckily stiff arms only hurt the neck...and only temporarily.
Replace stiff arms with clothes lines. Stiff arms only hurt the other guy’s face.
I’m asking just one question: When does the 2012 season start?
It can’t be soon enough.
Exactly what is the suicide rate for young famous celebs? Pretty darn high, is my guess.
It’s like the over-dramatization of Veteran suicide rates. Young males living far from home have a huge suicide rate.
College males not have a suicide rate 7 times the national average.
Uncomfortable question: do homosexual males commit suicide at a higher rate than heterosexual males?
I worked as a Firefighter for 25years until retirement. I saw guys get their backs broken by falling debris, I saw head injuries, hand injuries, smoke inhalation,Burns , hell I suffered some of them. I don’t see anyone saying we should do away with Firefighters.
You do see the problem here, don't you? Firefighters are necessary, football players simply aren't.
Hyper aggressive males with poor impulse control and all of a sudden losing the 40000 screaming fans every week and self worth might just make someone despondent.
Chronic alcoholism causes memory impairment and the use of HgH/testosterone , decadron/solumedrol/prednisone and other masking agents that have to be metabolized in the liver or through the kidneys in addition to suppressing the immune system (higher risk for cancers/inflammatory diseases might also cause cognitive disorders.
So the players are going to be on the hot seat for drinking , drugging and getting hit on the head. I thought it was pathetic that the well known DRUNK , Jim McMahon, of the Chicago Bears was not blaming alcohol but concussions on his short term memory loss. The NFL lawyers are going to chew them up.
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