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Posted on 1/1/23 at 5:46 pm to captdalton
Posted on 1/1/23 at 5:46 pm to captdalton
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My final thoughts on this are that he knocked the guy unconscious on the hit. If getting knocked unconscious isn’t “forcible contact to the head and neck” I don’t know what is.
Well that part is obvious
Sincere question: did you ever play football?
I ask because you’re supposed to drop your butt/hips to make a tackle, putting you in a crouched position.
Also, he dropped his head—still didn’t lead with the crown—because your head is connected your shoulder. And he planted his shoulder right into Harrison’s.
ETA: and you can definitely get a concussion without any contact whatsoever to your head or neck. I’ve seen it hundreds of times in my line of work
This post was edited on 1/1/23 at 5:50 pm
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Posted on 1/1/23 at 6:06 pm to CrimsonTideMD
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did you ever play football?
Yes. Little League, Junior high and 6A Alabama high school ball. LB/G and then as a junior moved to TE because they realized I could catch the ball.. And I broke my leg coming down with a ball that season. Compound fracture; both bones in my lower leg. Bone came through my sock and shoe. That was the end of my football career. My leg is still not 100% right now.
But I was not nearly good enough to play college ball anyway. But I did play with a couple and against many incredibly gifted athletes.
When I played in the 90s the wedge was still legal on kickoffs. My sophomore year, I was the wedge buster. Until I got knocked unconscious and my face mask got broken off. That is why I think I had to sit out the rest of the game, the face mask, not the concussion. So I can commiserate with getting knocked out.
Times have changed now though.
Posted on 1/1/23 at 6:51 pm to CrimsonTideMD
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and you can definitely get a concussion without any contact whatsoever to your head or neck. I’ve seen it hundreds of times in my line of work
No doubt. But something has to make the brain bang around inside the skull like a pinball. A car wreck is the normal cause.
I would argue that the hit is what caused the concussion in this case. I do not think it was a case of Immaculate Concussion. That hit knocked him unconscious. Consider it a car wreck without the car, even though in this case there was helmet to helmet contact.
They told us the whole purpose of the targeting rule was to prevent concussions and CTE.
It didn’t work here. Ol boy still got knocked out.
Everyone loves big hits. Except the guy receiving it. And often times the guy delivering it.
Posted on 1/2/23 at 8:25 pm to CrimsonTideMD
If you are watching Monday Night Football, you may have just seen a player die from a hit in the chest from a shoulder.
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