it is as dead as boxing just a matter of time
FWIW for all you Soccer Moms out there, heading a ball is a direct trauma to your little tot’s brain. In Football your kid wears a protective helmet and direct head trauma is not a rule of the game. In soccer you are required to use your little noggin to advance the ball.
It’s interesting that this brain injury stuff is getting so much press when the reality is that joint injuries (knee, hip, elbows and shoulders) and the lifelong pain that accompanies them is a much greater problem for retired NFL players.
Actually I think the brain damage that NFL Players seem to develop is not related to their time on the gridiron, but due to the fact that most of them attended academic courses at public Universities.
Had they gone to the NFL directly from high school then I think their brains could have been spared some of that traumatic brain washing.
And it’s become apparent that while players were aware of the possibility of mangled knees, broken bones and concussions, they didn’t grasp that repeated blows to the head could produce debilitating and irreversible mental harms
Yeah Football will soon be gone.
In rugby, where the players don't wear helmets, the players don't hit with their heads, because they don't want to crack their own skulls open (duuuh), and they didn't in American football either back when the helmets were made out of leather.
Additionally, I believe that the excessive abuse of steroids and other performance enhancing drugs that we all know takes place in the game today is likely a major factor as well. The players may want to think very carefully about just far down this road they really want to go.
For me, NFL simply means No Flippin’ Liberals.
A union organization does not deserve my time or money.
Yet MMF grows exponentially
Look the answer is obvious. Replace the men with women, the force of the collisions will be dramatically reduced and women will be on a better career path having engaged in combat.
Millions of American males have played at least some level of
organized tackle football. A relative few live their lives with some
pain, usually involving the ankle, knee, or shoulder. Even fewer
players end up with permanent brain damage.
This whole debate reminds me of the airplane crash issue. When
we have a series of airliner crashes some people get their panties
in a twist. They ignore the fact that many thousands of planes
have taken off and landed without incident.
There is an ongoing battle to take away ALL forms of risk
in this country and I, for one, think it is pretty dumb.
Or putting the strong arm on hapless taxpayers to build their team a new state of the art stadium. Good example, Mike Brown of the Cincinnati Bengals ... the old stadium barely 25 years old was demolished.
The reason Pro football is going away is because the player farms under the NFL are going away. First middle school and High School football will disappear since school districts can’t absorb the coming lawsuits. Without high schools where will college recruit? Due to the larger amounts of money involved colleges will last a few years more than high school programs and the pros will be the last to go simply because of the vast resources of the NFL. Given enough time lawyers will eventually ruin EVERYTHING!
And yet we have over half a million America dead because of AIDS, primarily due to consensual but immoral practice, which “helmets” alone will not prevent.
They can win it. First thing to do is start writing checks, settle all those cases out of court, they’ve got the cash. Next thing to do is stop screwing around with veteran players and their healthcare, no more trying to write off problems as non-football, again just start writing checks (the NFL has ridiculously deep pockets), cover everything, cover the flu. Once they do that the problem, at least the PR portion, will be gone.
so now it’s all about who can garner the most sympathy through jealousy and resentment?
Typical ignorant Town Hall article.
Players cannot sue the league, nor the owners, since they have signed the notice of hazards when they joined.
Stupid, stupid, stupid.
Football will be shut down. What is funny is that they are pushing soccer as a replacement, which has higher rates of injuries and brain damage.
Eliminate the helmets and padding and it’ll be the safest pro sport.