Posted on 02/22/2024 6:37:16 AM PST by OttawaFreeper
I just have Green Bay Packer and UW Badger Football ‘stuff.’ ;)
Couple years back, I watched his funeral on youtube.
I want a Jordan Love and a Christian Watson jersey... I think Jordan will be another star in the making...and I think Christian Watson will be Love’s Devonte Adams!
Eddie Shore began wearing a helmet after causing Ace Bailey’s (of the Toronto Maple Leafs) career ending head injury due to Shore upending an unsuspecting Bailey in a December 1933 game. Boston’s Ted Green took a nasty fractured skull injury from a stick fight with St Louis player Wayne Maki in a September 1969 exhibition game and wore a headpiece for the remainder of his pro hockey career.
The news media covering the sport advocated for helmets and more and more protection because of these and other incidents, however, often would not consider the issue of increased protection will often lead to players having that increased sense of invincibility that in turn leads to more careless and deliberate behaviour. On YouTube, there is an interview with former Philadelphia Flyer Brad Marsh in which he discusses (after a December 1987 injury) wearing a helmet for a brief period in which he saw far more elbows, high sticks, hits from behind, and other cheap stuff directed at him than at any other time he played in the NHL (mostly without the helmet).
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