Will concussions end the game of football?

[slick1ru2]

There may just be a medication someday. It's a serious issue that effects more than just football. And no type of helmet will prevent it, helmets are to protect from fractures. The brain slamming into the inside of the skull after sudden stops is what causes it. Soccer and any other sport where there's collisions, not even concussions but the jolting of the brain to the point of where you see stars, are the types of activities that are linked to it.

HBO Sports just did something on the issue and youth soccer, which has done nothing so far on the issue. In their case, alarming numbers of concussions by not only headers but collisions. They recommend no headers at least until you're like 14 or something because these type injuries on a growing brain causes even more damage. They showed these kids, one was out of school for three months and had all kind of memory issues. Very scary. And then they had one of the women's soccer stars of the one time before last U.S. World Cup champ team and she's got issues, like needIng GPS to find her way home from the grocery store. She's trying to get the soccer Powers that be to acknowledge these issues.

But yes, as the frontline special on this subject and the NFL showed, there's a lot of money and a lot of politics involved. The things the NFL did to hide this were heinous. They had a doctor that was an arthritis specialist calling the doctors that were brain specialists quacks, and were publishing papers with falsehoods that denounced any link between chronic brain injury and concussions and other head injuries. They were doing the same tactics that the tobacco industry did with their phony scientific research. But let's face it, the human body was not made for these types of sports. That's the reality.

http://www.postandcourier.com/article/20150805/PC20/150809668/1032/will-football-players-take-medicine-to-prevent-brain-damage

[slick1ru2]

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[slick1ru2]

That one one the NFL and this one on high school football are by Frontline and can be watched for free on the PBS website or app.

[slick1ru2]

as long as it remains for the rest of my life i  am happy

that's not the issue, it's a whole group of people whose lives are destroyed while we joyfully watch and cheer them on.

[Bull Dozer]

 

as long as it remains for the rest of my life i  am happy

that's not the issue, it's a whole group of people whose lives are destroyed while we joyfully watch and cheer them on.

 

 

Then why do you watch/support football?.....

[Bull94]

trial lawyers will make sure of it.

 

then I'll have to tell my son that they are not only the reason why we can't have a diving board or slide in the backyard but they also bankrupted the most popular sport of our time.

[Triple B]

as long as it remains for the rest of my life i  am happy

that's not the issue, it's a whole group of people whose lives are destroyed while we joyfully watch and cheer them on

Jerry Springer is still on?

[MMW]

 

 

as long as it remains for the rest of my life i  am happy

that's not the issue, it's a whole group of people whose lives are destroyed while we joyfully watch and cheer them on.

 

 

Then why do you watch/support football?.....

 

 

 

That is a question I ask myself sometimes.  I guess I lie to myself that these kids are getting an education.  Maybe at the college level it is less brutal.  

[slick1ru2]

as long as it remains for the rest of my life i am happy

that's not the issue, it's a whole group of people whose lives are destroyed while we joyfully watch and cheer them on.

Then why do you watch/support football?.....

I love the game, I've watched it my entire life going back to the late 60s. This is an issue that's come out only in the past 2 to 3 years. As I have noted, the NFL has actively covered this up and dismissed any relationship between concussions and permanent brain injury. As more research is done and it's clear that there is a connection, one expert in the documentary on the NFL and concussions said that once mothers find out about this, it's the end of football.

And what really happens to many scholarship football players vs what we think happens is also another thing that bothers me. Some of these revelations are also rather new, versus the isolated case you hear of gifts to star players we've heard for years.

I think in both cases things need to change and things are changing to some degree. Scientists need to continue to work on ways to the limit risk of brain injury. And colleges and the NCAA need to make more of an effort to ensure that college football is actually something that benefits college players versus being a money machine for them while treating players as a cheap, disposable commodity.

These are serious issues and nothing's perfect. I hope that they rectify these issues so we can enjoy football for decades to come. It's not the first time football has had a crisis like this, Teddy Roosevelt saved football because of its then serious health and death issues. Nothing as simple as implementing the forward pass is going to work in this case, but I think that football is something that all awe enjoy enough that The powers that be need to make sure they can make this a safe as possible. As well as not use students as cash cows.

Edited August 26, 2015 by slick1ru2