24 Year Old Local Kid With CTE

[Rabbuk]

but why do that if, as it has been argued, everybody already knew that concussions were so dangerous? I mean, if everybody already knows then there's no plausible deniability, is there? It would be a huge waste of time and money to support an alternate narrative, if the danger of concussions was already common knowledge, right?

The fact is that the dangers of concussions weren't widely known at the time the NFL was suppressing alternate viewpoints. It might have been commonly thought that getting hit in the head could result in longterm damage, like Muhammed Ali, but boxing is a sport without much in the way of safety equipment like the NFL has. It would have been easily dismissed as a comparison at the time.

The plausible deniability is the ability to say "We didn't know back then" so we aren't responsible for old-timers. There's a reason they suppressed alternate viewpoints, they didn't want the knowledge.

 

[chuckd4735]

No disrespect intended to you or anyone else who has posted in this thread but the likelihood of your children being major college players is fairly close to zero. I chuckle whewhen I read upper middle class white people say they won't let their children play football and that will lead to less quality players. It really won't. We'll see the same types of kids we generally see: mostly black and mostly middle class or poor .

My post was not about three quality of participation, but the changes I assume that will happen to make the game safer, which will change the quality of the product.

 

[D UP Clones]

You're 26. Wait until you're 40 with kids. You may think differently when you struggle to remember their friend's names or your kid's birthdays.

What an idiotic post. So you are telling him he is going to suffer from CTE and won't be able to function. So stupid.

Defies facts...logic.... and just about everything else. This is what they are talking about in the previous posts.

People who are not football players telling people who have been there how it is. Get real. Educate yourself and actually read the research if you can call it that.

You see research requires a control group and people who don't fit in that category to be tested. Oh no... Wait you mean they can't just run tests on people who have just played football and have mental issues and blame it on football?

Educate yourself.

 

[jmb]

The NFL, a monoply multi-billion dollar orgainzation lied to protect itself. Man that had to be the first time that happened.

I think people are wimps when they find an easy out and use it as a crutch for the rest of their lives. I accused no one directly in this thread. I speak only to the giant media out cry about all this. Every day I see some parent spewing on about not playing football. If you want to accuse me of generalizing ok, fine. I do it for practicality of conversation. I'm not writing a research report here. In fact my give a **** has just run out. I have no personal problems with you btw.

What do you think about reading research? Might help you not be intellectually wimpy on this topic.

 

[jkclone]

One of my favorite Twins of all time, torii hunter, said his kid is quitting Notre Dame football next year to play baseball because way less risk for serious injury. he even said in an interview he hates watching his kid pkay football .

TBF that is how it should be handled. Play and if you have concussion issues like he does then quit.

 

[burn587]

One of my favorite Twins of all time, torii hunter, said his kid is quitting Notre Dame football next year to play baseball because way less risk for serious injury. he even said in an interview he hates watching his kid pkay football .

That's amusing coming from that dbag. He gave Jamie Burke a concussion plowing him over at the plate when he didn't need to. One of the dirtiest plays I've seen, I'm still pissed no white sox players took a swing at him.

http://www.thegazette.com/2012/05/19/burke-recalls-violent-collision-with-hunter

 

[BikeSkiClone]

Just read the article. I've struggled with the effects of a serious head injury I had a couple years ago on top of the compounding effects of smaller concussions as a teen, but tonight I'm just thankful I've never quite experienced what Zac did, though there were a few times when I had to stop reading because the content touched a little too close to home.

It's a "heavy" read, but 100% worth it.