Posted on 07/27/2017 8:37:25 PM PDT by Rockitz
No kidding. A college teammate of mine was on the preseason roster of the Oilers one year and was on a plane ride out to CA to play the Rams. He was reading a book on the plane and was asked by multiple players why would he read a book. My friend spent a lot of time with the kickers that training camp. He made it until the final cut and now works in the medical field.
It certainly does NOT imply or even come close to suggesting that 99% of football players will suffer from the disease.
I think he understands it better than you do.
He never said there was a 99% chance of him developing CTE.
His actions say that the chances of him developing CTE if he keeps on playing football are higher than he wants to take. If we were talking about my brain, that would be somewhere around 0.001% as an acceptable risk.
"Right now, I spend most of my time thinking about graph theory, machine learning, and numerical analysis."
Hopefully, he will also find some time to think about investing his football money and about applying math to same.
Do you think Rush will be talking about this on today's Open Lines Friday?
Then you’d have to call it something other than FOOTball. And handball is taken.
“I abandoned the NFL completely last year, along with many friends. NFL leftists sure picked a bad year to give millions of angry white men more free time with Trump as apresidential hopeful.”
Same here. Once they started WEARING PINK, that was it for me. Football was a MAN’S sport, for REAL MEN. And REAL MEN simply don’t wear pink.
When he predicted this, I doubted him. Sorry Rush!
“Good for him. Better to have your brain and no money than not have it and lots of money.”
http://www.spotrac.com/nfl/baltimore-ravens/john-urschel-14586/cash-earnings/
It is so encouraging to hear that a young man is so intelligent and grounded. There are so many degenerates and felons in the league, and hearing his story is uplifting.
He even has a great sense of humor. He made fun of the little car he drives.
> Time to short sell your NFL team? Yep!
They’ll NEVER run out of large guys willing to take a hit for a large paycheck.
If they went back to leather helmets,would the NFL have fewer concussions.. ?
The 111 brains studied also came from players who are dead (one figures ...) rather than those still alive. They are, therefore, not wholly representative of all football-players' brains.
Nonetheless, that's a startling result, and I can entirely understand a man's deciding to do something else with his life.
The math for anyone who has any other option in life is pretty simple: You have exactly one brain, but more than one way to make a living.
Kinda like ice time in the NHL.
Doctor/Mechanic, please help me!
What is wrong.
My car. It has dents all over it.
Doctor: must be your family history. Take these drugs.
Mechanic : put down your hammer.
I wonder what the concussion rates are in Rugby — the forerunner of football? My impression is that these guys don’t intentionally tackle with their heads. But then they generally don’t push runners out of bounds or chop their legs either — they wrap up the runner.
Taking the foot out of football would be like taking putting out of Golf. You’d still have a game, but you’d take a lot of the drama out of it.
Hardly, this guy is the exception not the rule. Your typical pro football player is not a phd candidate... There will always be those willing to take the risk for the big payday because they know it’s the only shot they have at that kind of money.
Football dies when moms and dads refuse to let their young kids start playing it... Not when a few stop playing it in their 20s.
The NFL admitted long ago they knew about 30% of their retired players would go on to have cognitive issues... Yes the sampling may be a bit biased by those brains left especially for the purpose to be examined, but if you think CTE is a rare condition for someone who spends years treating their heads like a crash test dummy’s you are in denial.
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