This is your brain on football

[Harlan Huckleby]

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/13/sp...-released.html

A third of NFL retirees are exhibiting brain damage.

The concussion protocol will help some, but probably it's the repetitive, moderate level trauma that is scrambling the eggs.

How many parents today want their kids playing football? Even without the brain threat, lots of people are walking funny from old football injuries. As an amateur sport, I think football is drifting towards being a gladiator sport, like MMA. There will always be some kids who want to play, but a lot of best athletes will play other sports.

[hoosier]

Holy crap, that is quite the photo of Kevin Turner.

[Harlan Huckleby]

Holy crap, that is quite the photo of Kevin Turner.

"Football have been berry, berry good to me"

[Rutnstrut]

Even when retired with drain bramage they are required ti pimp the Under Armor.

[Maxie the Taxi]

[Rastak]

I damn near cried when I read the article about former Viking Fred McNeil.


http://www.gq.com/news-politics/big-...s-fred-mcneill

[Harlan Huckleby]

http://www.gq.com/news-politics/big-...s-fred-mcneill

I suffered mild brain damage getting through all six pages.

People thought boxing would go away because it is so brutal. But it got supplanted by a more brutal sport.

I think a lot of highschools will drop tackle football, at least as it is played today.

[Harlan Huckleby]

I started watching baseball games this summer for the first time in 30 years.

When the guys get on first base, sometimes they celebrate by reaching in their pocket and enjoying some sunflower seeds.

By far, the greatest exercise they get is the jog on and off the field. They drink soda in the bullpen - which is really a mancave with a view.

Major league baseball is the life. They get paid about three times as much as an NFL player. There is more injury risk in bowling or deer hunting. Rickie Weeks is earning something like $10M per year, and he'll be playing as a utility guy until he is in late 30's.

Edit: my Rickie Weeks "facts" were overheard on talk radio. Back off.

[Tyrion Lannister]

I've seen Favre and Rodgers sniff ammonia on the sidelines on TV prior to kickoff.

Is that stuff healthy?

[Guiness]

I damn near cried when I read the article about former Viking Fred McNeil.


http://www.gq.com/news-politics/big-...s-fred-mcneill

wow

[pbmax]

Yep. This is what they signed up for.

[MadtownPacker]

Fine that isn't what they signed up for so what about other jobs people do where something happens they didn't sign up for?

[pbmax]

This is what has changed in a nutshell:

"My thing was tackle. Bring him down. Stop him right here. Then a couple of smaller guys, defensive backs, they come up like a bullet... head down... just boom! Zhz zhz zhz. More and more it was like that, trying to be so aggressive with the intent to hurt. I didn't want to hurt anybody. But then I realized if they got a great running back and you hurt him, you might win the game, you know? So actually I started seeing that as a thing to do. To hurt them so they have to leave the game."

Using the helmet for the kill shot and turnovers.

[pbmax]

Fine that isn't what they signed up for so what about other jobs people do where something happens they didn't sign up for?

Depends on what that something is. If its endemic and ignored, its the same problem as head trauma in the NFL.

Especially if its taught by the coaches you hired, sold by your video highlights firm and investigated by a person whose speciality was rheumatology.

[wootah]

I damn near cried when I read the article about former Viking Fred McNeil.

http://www.gq.com/news-politics/big-...s-fred-mcneill

Amazing stuff... It's also nice to see they quoted wist.

This is not good. Freaking women organs running this league.
The NFL is turning into a touch football "Nancy Boy" League. Steer your kids that have talent into baseball, basketball or any other sport that will still have dignity left in 2 years....
The pussyification of the NFL continues. Every single goddam year the rules get more and more VAGINIZED.

I've said it here before: I will live to see the day where sports which have the aim to knock an opponent unconscious will be banned and considered a primitive form of entertainment from the past.