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Ironically what makes football dangerous is all the padding they wear. Take off the helmets and shoulder pads and you will see brain injuries decrease dramatically
I disagree. If you remember the argument is nobody knew about these brain inuries till a while back.......I'd say until Al Toon if you ask me.......and that is the point. The NFL is trying to address the issue now.......the issue is on a forefront in youth football too which is a good thing. If you tackle properly you won't get hurt. Many don't is the problem or weren't taught to or in the NFL they go for the knockout to get a turnover........that is the game. They all know it. They all signed up for it. Nobody forces anybody to play football. Leave the football players alone they don't need liberal help. The guys from the early days who wore ****ty pads and crap helmets and the like are a mess. Who knows what the guys who wore leather helmets went through because they are all dead. The players union of course didn't care during their negotiations last year they just wanted the money and then let the lawyers take over from there. Typical union thugs. If the players union really cared they would be the ones fining the players not the NFL. They don't care though they just want money and they are gettin it.
You are correct like usual. The liberals want their disease to permeate the entire country to destroy it. The sad thing is they don't think it will destroy the country they think it will make it all better. That is why liberalism is a mental disease. It has been proven wrong over and over again throughout history yet these folks think it will work this time for some reason........brain damage.
People won't have to ban football, parents will just not sign their kids up for it anymore. There's no way I'd sign up my kid for football and risk permanent irreversible brain damage just so he could play a hobby. He can join track, weight lifting, swimming, tennis, gold, or whatever else.
My boy, 17, plays high school football at the highest division in the state. He's a little 170 pound turd who can run like a deer and plays safety and hits folks all over the place. He has been taught by his youth coach, me, at an early age how to tackle. That is the key. Hell when I was a kid in jr high we went through form tackling drills every day of the week. The equipment is better, the docs in college and the nfl are ten times better and a focus has been put on this. So what is the issue? The NFL guys go look for the "blowup" hits to make the highlights and get their contract. Does anybody think that guys who play football and their parents don't know the risks? That guys in the NFL don't know what they are doing? Hell we gotta sign concussion forms and the like now so the school can't be sued. EVERYBODY knows about it now which is a good thing as trainers can look for symptoms. If anything all this concussion stuff has made the sport safer. We had one kid all year with a concussion last season. If you don't want to play football then don't. If your a parent and don't want little johnny to play football then don't. Just don't sit there and tell others what to do. It's just amazing. Liberals have decided they don't like football and now are trying to convince the rest of the nation it's some evil sport. Just leave us alone liberals.
Wrong. If you followed the ongoing medical literature related to CTE (which clearly you haven't), tackling properly isn't the issue. The issue is the constant sub-concussive forces a player experiences while playing a sport like football. You can teach all the proper tackling techniques and build the best equipment possible, it still doesn't prevent the brain from being shaken around in the head. Concussions alone also don't lead to CTE, there has even been a documented case of a high school football player who never even had a diagnosed concussion by a medical professional, yet had clear signs of CTE at even such a young age. In order to remove the risk of permanent brain damage, you'd have to remove all tackling and blocking, but then you wouldn't have the game of football.
But hey, feel free to decide for your kid if their brain is worth permanent damage just so little Timmy can play a hobby that will most likely never ever turn into a career.
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Gladwell is a dork...if he doesn't want to get his brain racked for millions..nobody is forcing him to....and nothing but his Chicken Little aesthetics is preventing him on the flipside of that token. And nobody is forcing the players to play either. And the fact the market exists proves that a lot of people love seeing athletes getting their brains smacked around.
Until that changes.....OH WELL.
Side note - Roger Goodell made $20 million last year....for what and how exactly? What service did he render that paid him more than Peyton Manning last year?
I will take Gladwell serious when he starts calling for bans on GMO's, fluoride in drinking water, useless flu shots and "rushed trial" FDA approved meds.
Girl's soccer has the second highest concussion of all sports, and the rate in girl's soccer is rising much faster than football.
My daughter has a friend who got a concussion during a soccer game, and she is out of soccer for at least 4 months. The doctors may let her start playing again in January, but they said definitely not before then. My son plays tackle football in a Pop Warner league, and over the years he has played, we have never had a child on our team get a concussion.
concussions happen in soccer but its nowhere near as bad as American football. If concussions in soccer was a massive issue you would have ex-players all around the world experiencing the same symptoms that ex-NFL players are experiencing.
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