Posted on 05/29/2014 10:03:05 AM PDT by Second Amendment First
President Obama said Thursday that he may have suffered from mild concussions while playing football in his childhood.
"When I was young and played football briefly, there were a couple times where I'm sure that that ringing sensation in my head and the needing to sit down for a while might have been a mild concussion, and at the time you didn't think anything of it," Obama said at a White House event designed to highlight the risks of sports-related brain injuries.
Obama said his experience was common and underscored the need to "change the culture" around concussion injuries in sports, in which athletes are told to "just suck it up."
"The awareness is improved today, but not by much," Obama said. "So the total number of young people who are impacted by this early on is probably bigger than we know."
Obama said parents, coaches and administrators had a responsibility to make sure student athletes "are able to participate as safely as possible."
The president said a crucial part of that effort was filling in the gaps in concussion research.
"We want to keep them safe, and that means we have to have better information. We have to know what these issues are. And the fact is we don't have solid numbers, and that tells me that at every level we're all still trying to fully grasp what's going on with this issue," Obama said.
Toward that end, Obama announced millions of dollars the administration had solicited from corporate and nonprofit partners to help fund additional research into the risks of repeated concussions.
That will include a $30 million joint effort between the Pentagon and NCAA for what the White House described as "the most comprehensive clinical study of concussion and head impact exposure ever conducted."
The National Football League will also pledge an additional $25 million over the next three years to support partnerships promoting youth sports safety, including efforts to expand access to athletic trainers for student athletes and education programs designed to teach students about the risk of sports injuries.
"We've got to have better research, better data, better safety equipment, better protocols," Obama said. "We've got to have every parent and coach and teacher recognize the science of concussions."
Obama added that the research was important not only for athletes but for the nation's military.
"I've seen in my visits to wounded warriors, traumatic brain injury is one of the signature issues of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan," Obama said.
Despite the risks associated with concussions, the president repeatedly emphasized that he thought sports played a central role in childhood development.
"First of all, the first lady thinks everybody needs to move," he quipped, referencing his wife's signature policy initiative.
But, Obama said, sports are "fundamental to who we are as Americans and our culture."
"We're competitive. We're driven. And sports teaches us about teamwork and hard work and what it takes to succeed, not just on the field, but in life," he said.
He fell down once while high on coke?
He played tight end and wide receiver.
I looked up the word once, and wished I hadn’t.
I forgot exactly what it is.
Now there’s a YooToob video about it?
When and where did he visit with our soldiers????
Yeah, right, and if Slick or Hillary were presiding over this conference, they'd both say they'd "been concussed", too, and make up some implausible story to try and make it sound real.
This phony attempt to put themselves personally into every situation that becomes part of a national discussion seems to be an incurable disease of today's prominent Dims.
Ah, com’on, couldn’t you have posted a barf alert
He needs to be felched with a honey badger.
Liar in Chief will make up any story to further the cause of emasculating American culture of its manly sports because Obama is a wimp and beta male poser.
Did this asshole hit his head over a teleprompter?
ROFLMAO!!!
Hard to sustain a concussion when you’re head is inside your colon.
BACKFIELD IN MOTION
Mel & Tim
Words and music by M. McPherson and M. Harden
Backfield in motion, yeah,
I’m gonna have to penalize you
Backfield in motion, baby,
You know that’s against the rules.
Off side and holdin, yeah,
You ought a be ashamed of yourself baby
Offside and holdin yeah,
Holdin on to some one else
You know you’re cheatin baby,
Ffakin the bout
You know you’re balking, baby,
(oh yeah) strike three you’re out
And I caught you with
Backfield in motion, yeah,
I’m gonna have to penalize you
Backfield in motion, baby,
You know that’s against the rules.
First down you start cheatin’ on me
Second down, I was too blind to see
Third down, you know I love you so
Fourth down, baby I got to let you go,
Cus I caught you with your
Backfield in motion, yeah,
I’m gonna have to penalize you
Backfield in motion, baby,
You know that’s against the rules.
Now you will see, ah yeah, just how I felt
You beat me to the punch honey,
But you hit me below the belt
And I caught you with your
Backfield in motion, yeah,
I’m gonna have to penalize you
Backfield in motion, baby,
You know that’s against the rules.
Backfield in motion, backfield in motion...
Backfield in motion, backfield in motion...
FADE
He meant Hacky Sack.
After studying his teammates in the shower just a little too closely one too many times and being told, “Get out or we’ll knock you out!” morphed into, “Football concussed my head.”
Me me me me me ... 0’s talks have turned into Italian opera.
He has indeed been cussed at in my house. I’m with you on that, so, “con-cussed” is accurate.
“...that ringing sensation in my head...”
That was Chrissy Matthews’ leg tingling.
does that explain the Scar on his head
Yeah, he took an errant throw of a Nerf ball in the head during dorm-room "horseplay"...
The poor thing... He just can’t STAND that Hillary got publicity about her “head injury,” and nobody even LOOKED at him for a whole day or two. Gotta get in there. Too bad we can’t see a picture of him wearing Hillary’s goofy “birth-control” glasses. That would be incontrovertible proof, you know.
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