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by psu on May 6, 2010 4:23 PM EDT up reply actions
I wonder if LT ever suffered any concussions...
I would guess the answer is “probably”.
In a few years, this kind of stuff from ex players will haunt the NFL.
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Haunts them now.
If you watch Outside the Lines or Real Sports, you’ll see specials on this story on a rotating basis. And I’m pretty sure Ditka got the NFL to do something that relates to this issue, maybe.
But what if the hurricane’s name is Hurricane Ditka?
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by Jeff Junstrom on May 7, 2010 9:36 AM EDT up reply actions
Yes, but it will really haunt them when scientists/doctors find a clear link between concussions and brain damage.
I’m really stealing this idea from jesse., but only because I think he’s dead on. And as he has also said, the NFL is doing no favors with their “Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain” approach.
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by ReadingRambler on May 7, 2010 10:40 AM EDT up reply actions
It'll be incremental
1. The hard and heavy evidence of concussions=brain damage will come first / already largely exists. Here is the dude featured on the Real Sports shows in 2007 & 2009. And here is the Boston University Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy, a link to their football playing case studies.
2. NFL will ‘respond’ (their new spokesperson/doctor is at least a little transparent and acknowledgy nowadays, unlike his predecessor)
3. More science and evidence will show links to brain damage not just from cuncussive head injuries, but regular use of a helmet in contact sports
4. Football will die
"So while while I may be douchy, I’m not rusty."
4)a be totaly diferent, more like rugby
Does rugby have these same problems?
It seems to me that there is much less care as to how to go out and hit with a helmet on than if you’re not wearing one. Much like the high sticking/cage argument in hockey.
Don’t get me wrong helmetless football would be drastically different than it is today, but perhaps survivable.
Rugby would be a fine destination
It’s more fluid for starters and their tackling technique is more pure. And their ‘helmets’ are more for protecting their ears and don’t lend themselves to use as part of the tackle, tho they’ve gotten more and more padded over the last 20 years. My dad played american football for 10 years and rugby for like 20 and he always insisted that every one of his injuries were from football and none from rugby.
"So while while I may be douchy, I’m not rusty."
or keep the helmet for the safety purposes
since accidents could occur in the game, and could be catastrophic, but just tweak the rules so that if your head/helmet get banged up during a play that some sort of penalty is enforced. Not necessarily a yardage penalty, but then something like you are ineligible for the rest of the series or quarter, or some set number of plays (there would of course need to be rules to prevent another team for intentionally using this to knock an opponent out of the game…maybe just the person who initiated contact using their helmet, or another player’s helmet). Just something to strongly discourage using the head/helmet as a weapon, and to make the players more careful about it all.
by The JuggerNitt on May 7, 2010 12:45 PM EDT up reply actions
I hope it is more along the lines of
and 4. Football will morph into a safer, and yet still as exciting game.
by The JuggerNitt on May 7, 2010 11:31 AM EDT up reply actions
This is sooooo true.
Look at boxers and the amount of crazy stuff that goes on with guys still participating let alone the old guys that are broke and half nuts. There is going to be a next generation of football players that will exhibit the same signs as the “punch drunk” boxers of the past.
One caveat: if that craziness induced by boxing lowers their inhibitions about doing awesome cameos
“Shhh, this is my favorite part comin’ up right now….bah dump, bah dump, bah dump, bah dump, bump bump…I can hear it callin’ in the air tonight, oh looooooord!!!”
The Big Ten has just adopted a new policy on head injuries
Athletes at Big Ten schools will be required to sign a waiver after receiving education about concussions, the conference’s medical staffs and athletic trainers have decided. The waiver will explain to athletes they are expected to be open and honest about their symptoms regarding head injuries to aid diagnosis and treatment of concussions. The waiver was constructed during the annual meeting of the league’s physicians and athletic trainers that concluded Wednesday at the Big Ten offices in Park Ridge, Ill.
"So while while I may be douchy, I’m not rusty."
awesome in a way, they are at least addressing the issue but
not awesome in that they are still laying the diagnosis and follow up care on the player. A guy battling for a position is MUCH less likely to be honest about headaches and dizzy spells, especially one that wants to make the NFL.
I don't know enough about concussions to say
but isn’t it pretty hard to diagnose a mild concussion from the outside without the person self-diagnosing at least to some extent. How is a coach going to be able to tell if someone is suffering from headaches and dizzy spells if they decide to hide it?
by The JuggerNitt on May 7, 2010 12:48 PM EDT up reply actions
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