Posted on 08/31/2015 7:35:09 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
That's how they know they have a concussion.
Will who? ...the “movie” is DOA! We have made a pledge to avoid like the plague anything racist Will what’s his name is in.
I don’t care about Will Smith’s personal opinion on issues. That said, I think the problem is that Will Smith is too light skinned to play as the African doctor in the movie. They would be better off casting an educated African from Great Britain.
Now if it was Denzel........
At the rate things are going, I wouldn't be surprised that within 25-30 years, baseball, basketball and soccer will become the #1, #2 and #3 sports in the USA, with football rapidly falling because of parents refusing to let their children take up the sport. Why these three sports? Baseball has a big following in much of Latin America and eastern Asia, basketball is now a worldwide phenomenon, and of course soccer is the #1 sport in the world (and growing fast in the USA because of the increasing influence of the Latino population).
But what will fill in the void left when American football falls out of favor? I think futsal (essentially a variant of soccer but played on a hard surface field mostly indoors on a circa 40 x 22.5 field) and team handball (go watch a game on YouTube--it is intense from start to finish) could fill in the need for sport that keeps up fan interest the entire game.
For God’s sake keep them out of the Marine Corps too! It would be terrible if they grew up to be men.
The NFL commission is politically corrupt. Don’t care what it thinks. But brain injury is a serious matter and deserves the attention it requires.
Looking forward to Will Smith’s movie: Extermination of Nascent Life.
Agree with you. I grew up playing football in the South during the 60s when we had “suspension” helmets and were taught to lower our heads for head to head contact. The helmets were crap compared to what they are today (custom fit, air-inflated). Coaches also didn’t believe in water breaks. My high school coach had worked under Bear Bryant of “Junction Boys” fame. We would sometimes practice for 2 hours in 95 degrees with no water, then the “trainers” would hand out salt tablets by the handful after practice. I never saw a heat casualty. Once in a high school football game I got my “bell rung” and I was on my hands and knees trying to figure out where I was. All I could hear was the coach yelling my name from the sideline to “get up!”
OCS at Quantico was tough, but I was mentally/physically prepared after football in the South. I did 20 years in the Corps as a pilot and my neck bothers me to this day, but I would not trade my experiences for anything.
my prediction? FLOP!
Vets had to fight to have TBI recognized.
“How Many Troops Are Affected by TBI?”
Just how many troops are affected is hard to know. Sections of the government have released numbers ranging from 50,000 (Department of Defense) to 115,000 (the Pentagon), while the Brain Injury Association of America estimates the number at 360,000 and RAND corporation has suggested it could be as high as 400,000.
Contributing to the uncertainty are the facts that TBI is difficult to diagnose, and that some soldiers may be reluctant to be diagnosed. The Pentagon found that 60 percent of the soldiers who suffered from TBI symptoms refused help because they worried unit leaders would treat them differently, or that the condition would prevent them from getting jobs as police officers and firefighters after they got out of the service.
http://www.pbs.org/pov/wheresoldierscomefrom/traumatic-brain-injury.php
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