Well, boo hoo, hoo. I’d like to have retired when I was 44, but I’m much older than that and am still working. Cry me a river you NFL pukes.
Try getting older and see what your memory is like when trying to find a word that you know like the back of your hand and it won’t come.
Sports like football and boxing that by their nature result in repetitive head trauma and certainly harm the brain. However there is no law forcing people to box or play football. You cannot have both the freedom of individuals making choices and laws that restrict those choices. First they will pass laws to “protect the children”. Then given the cost to socialized medicine of caring for the injuries and brain damage, the sports will be heavily restricted. Then it will be a crime it even box or play football privately. BTW Brett had a history of opiate addiction.
It would appear that leftists are salivating at the opportunity of discrediting the NFL and that yesterday's tobacco lawyers are circling again...like the vultures they are.But science is the only thing that matters here.
There’s no helmet that can stop the brain from going one way and the skull another way. You don’t have to be hit on the head for your brain to jiggle around, just a sudden force. You could be tackled in the body, fall down, trip, whatever. And there’s a lot of that in the course of a football career up to and through the bigs. It’s not one catastrophic hit or blow, it’s repeated moderate bumps to the brain, although getting these moderate blows soon after a true concussion might make the damage worse.
Meaningful HGH testing in particular might help curtail super fast 300+ behemoths that can play and train so hard and recover from injuries in record time over the course of a season. But the NFL, the players union, the sports media and what seems like a majority of NFL fans don’t really care, for a variety of reasons. If they did, you would see more stories about it, instead of outrage at the antics of thugs and the name Redskins.
Freegards
I forgot what I was going to say....
I’ve had 2 fractured skulls, 7 concussions, been run over by a car, and had a stroke but I’m OK. I guess some people are just lucky
Brett can’t remember he retired, so what?
Hey Brett, I’d worry a whole lot more about lapses in moral consciousness than short term memory.
As long Brett is able to worry he’s o.k.
nah, Brett, you are just a big dorky dumb football player, but at least you got payed for playing a game
I do recall hearing John Madden say to somebody, “Any, football player who goes through even one superbowl will have a new set of physical problems with them from that point on, It’s a given”.
I grew up in Chicago when Ditka was coaching Da Bears, and I remember a kid at my school went to the same church as him. Even though he seemed in good shape on the sidelines, the kid said he would come into church on two canes, or even a wheelchair, because his knees were completely shot. He just toughed it out for the cameras during games, apparently.
With him it might be wise to check drug and alcohol abuse first.