Football too dangerous? Time Article explores

I understand your concern, but it’s kind of like the high school health class warnings of not drinking and doing drugs (not that I advocate drugs) and destroying your brain. Yes, you’ll kill off some brain cells, but unless you’re getting seriously messed up (either through physical contact or substances) a lot, you have plenty of brain cells left. The health class thing was meant to scare kids into not doing drugs or drinking (which has worked flawlessly, I might add), I don’t think there’s anything to be seriously worried about. Risk, yes, but almost any sport you play is going to have some contact.

I played soccer for many years up until HS, and I’ve collided with people on the field accidentally, I got tripped by a guy from behind and did a faceplant into the dirt, not to mention the countless times I’ve rolled my ankles, or getting shoved by some a-hole in an indoor soccer match and coming down full weight on my ankle, which took me out that game as my ankle swelled up like a balloon, etc. etc.
I’ve played volleyball too and again, rolled ankles, jumped for a block and again came down on with my full weight on my ankle. I’ve gone down for a dig in the sand, and ended up tweaking something in my knee, which could have been a partial ligament tear (I should have but never went to go see a doctor).

If someone told you that you could earn millions of $$ a year for smashing your head 50 times a day, would you do it? I have no pain tolerance, so my answer is NO WAY!

The sub-concussive impacts are where it’s at. There’s a huge and growing body of science regarding these injuries, which I’ve always refer to as closed head injuries. They are poorly understood at best, but I’ve had doctors tell me that the damage caused to the brain, and whatever that protective membrane between the brain and the skull, is more or less permanent, and certainly cumulative.

That being said, I do think the feeling of invincibility leads to kids flying around helmet first with reckless abandon. Football hurts a lot to play, and it’s supposed to, but it gets really dangerous when the kid delivering the hit feels no fear of pain because he’s protected by hard plastic.

This happens so freaking regularly. Think 5 olinemen and 4 dlinemen lining up and banging their heads against each other 50-60 times a game

Think about letting them start to do it in fifth grade, without an athletic trainer within five miles.

I honestly believe that head injuries and concussions are to football what lung cancer was to cigarettes.

This is a picture of Mark Kelso of the Bills wearing it. There was another guy from 49ers that wore it as well.

I’m not sure that the Pro-Cap is as effective against concussions as the new helmets that are becoming popular. Ironically, they are most common at high end D1 programs like Penn State. Every single Penn State player wears the concussion resistant “”http://www.american-football.hu/images/Schutt%20DNA.jpg" target="new">Riddell Revolution" helmet, they aren’t given an option. At the same same time, dip-shit Ben Roethlisberger can have his fifth concussion in two years and go back to wearing the same ol’ helmet he always wears.

Of course the Riddell helmet retails for about $1,000. Which means you won’t be seeing it in Pee Wee football anytime soon.