Posted on 10/12/2013 12:32:48 PM PDT by EveningStar
It was billed as the documentary that Roger Goodell and the NFL didn't want you to see.
PBS' Frontline aired its long-awaited special—League of Denial: The NFL's Concussion Crisis—on Tuesday night to a bevy of support (and buzz) from the football community. In terms of media attention, only ESPN's 30 for 30 draws this kind of anticipation and reaction as a documentary series.
For those that were not able to watch it live or forgot to set the DVR, the near two-hour special is available on Frontline's website.
As you may remember, this is the documentary that ESPN first assisted with and then pulled out of—possibly because of pressure from the NFL. On their end, the network claimed that a lack of editorial control led to the departure.
Worth noting, however, is that for better or for worse, ESPN public relations and several ESPN talents continued to give the documentary—and their contributing journalists, Steve Fainaru and Mark Fainaru-Wada—support via Twitter.
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You can watch it online here.
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I’ll watch. In my opinion, this is a real problem, and I hope that equipment can mostly solve the issue.
Those ballistic helmets must be the root cause. They make a far better weapon than the protection they provide. Who looks at root causes anymore?
Go back to leather helmets.
Interesting enough, I never hear of Rugby players having these kinds of problems.
Better if they went back to the old leather helmets.
Isn’t the purpose of boxing to concuss the other guy? Is it still allowed?
They could put a foam rubber Afro on the helmets as a shock absorber.
Doubt that it - or anything - will affect American football; it’s too profitable.
League of Denial: The NFL's Concussion CrisisYeah, well, Concussion Denialists are really just racists, because we all know how many African-American NFL players there are. /s
That was the case of Mike Webster, he used his head literally as a battering ram for his entire career, and he paid the price.
Exactly. Better yet, popularize Rugby, which would get rid of the 350 behemoths and, so far as I am concerned, requires as much athleticism.
The big problem won’t be at the pro level, but at the High School level as the costs of liability insurance will skyrocket.
I like Gaelic Football even more.
Probably right. But the high schools are the training grounds of the NFL.
Precisely, that is what ultimately will kill the game. Unless the NFL creates their own youth system.
The question is who is going to coach Ruggers and any other form of football. Even soccer, which has some many young kids playing, runs aground on that reef as football is played even in the upper grade school level,
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