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re: George Will - Football kills. Parents are wussies; therefore, football is dying
Posted on 8/5/12 at 3:03 pm to beatbammer
Posted on 8/5/12 at 3:03 pm to beatbammer
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Better coaching from Tiny Tot to the NFL to *avoid* head shots is the only way to avoid this.
....and that's the emphasis. The days of "head hunting" are over and rightfully so.
The new "helmet comes off during the play" rules will be interesting. I've got a feeling equipment mgrs will make sure players have a proper fitting and fully secured helmet. Nobody wants to see their best player(s) having to sit out a critical play.
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Posted on 8/5/12 at 3:19 pm to bulldogger
In the long run I think Will might be right. More and more evidence seems to show how dangerous it is to your health to play football. Wearing a helmet prevents players from dying on the field of skull fractures like they once did - but does not prevent the soft tissue that makes up your brain (the seat of your humanity) from being damaged more and more over time.
There are things that can be done that are being done but the game is dangerous in some of the same ways that being a boxer is dangerous - you take repetitive concussive damage over time and that does horrible things to your function eventually (orthopedic damage is a separate issue but aside from paralysis I consider it less important that what damage is done to your brain).
I wonder if we might eventually see weight classes for football? Maximum weights would not prevent big hits - but (seeing as force at impact relates to both speed and mass) if you capped how big players could be perhaps you'd be able to reduce some damage. This is no longer the game of football that we're used to though - the football we're used to is just more dangerous than we realized
There are things that can be done that are being done but the game is dangerous in some of the same ways that being a boxer is dangerous - you take repetitive concussive damage over time and that does horrible things to your function eventually (orthopedic damage is a separate issue but aside from paralysis I consider it less important that what damage is done to your brain).
I wonder if we might eventually see weight classes for football? Maximum weights would not prevent big hits - but (seeing as force at impact relates to both speed and mass) if you capped how big players could be perhaps you'd be able to reduce some damage. This is no longer the game of football that we're used to though - the football we're used to is just more dangerous than we realized
Posted on 8/5/12 at 3:24 pm to Wishnitwas1998
I can tell you that it is that way for lots of folks that played ball when they were younger. It's a struggle for me every morning to get going and I'm just 43. No telling how hard it will be when I'm 63. I blame a lot of it on poor technique on the field and also in the weight room. I wish more could be done to protect these kids, but the process will be slow in coming..
Posted on 8/6/12 at 11:31 am to Wishnitwas1998
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If they didn't play any after high school I find this hard to believe or at least it is not bc of football
I don't find it hard to believe at all.
My back is jacked from an injury I initially got in practice and my right wrist grinds and cracks every time I rotate it and has since it got caught between helmets in a game. I quit after the last game of my junior season after receiving my 3rd concussion in two years when I was blindsided during an attempt to break a kickoff wedge.
I played for just 3 years at small private school in a prep school league in CT. The vast majority of people I played with and against went no further than D3 in college. I can only think of a couple who went to FCS schools. Point being, it wasn't like I was playing giant mofos you'd come across here in Texas and my body still got wrecked. I have several friends that went no further than HS who have issues derived from injuries they got while playing football.
Posted on 8/6/12 at 11:35 am to molsusports
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I wonder if we might eventually see weight classes for football?
They already do for Pop Warner.
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