Posted on 08/30/2017 12:41:21 PM PDT by Kaslin
How could there not be a connection? We know concussions have lasting negative impacts, and we know football players get concussions. We don't need further proof of the football brain damage connection, when we have proof of the concussion brain damage connection.
Not having surveyed experts in brain diseases/injuries and not having read the professional literature I have no knowledge of what scientists do,or do not,know.
Assuming you have specific knowledge on the subject and your statement is correct then the NFL debate seems as if it might be pointless.
Do tell. A center. For the College of Washington. In1991
No wonder he's trying to make a name for himself - 26 years later
She was eye candy for the guys in the sports bars.
Sure wrecked the professionalism though, but then again.
Good post..........
I believe that.
Read she passed away a few years back.
Wet toilet paper and smart asses...
Yeah. Just choose your role carefully, otherwise someone will tell you which one you are.
Yeah. Professional football players get concussions. So do kids falling off bicycles and monkey bars. The nanny-staters haven’t outlawed bicycles yet, but give it time.
As we see, there are plenty of nanny-staters to spread around.
Unless the kid is pretty retarded, they aren’t getting multiple concussions riding on a bike or playing on the monkey bars. We are talking about the risk of multiple concussions a year, or dozens over a career. If your kid has multiple concussions from riding a bike, I’d recommend taking the bike away - as a good parent, not as a nanny state regulation.
Agreed. More kids are following soccer and are more likely to know of Lionel Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo than any NFL Player.
And don’t look now, but the US is about to produce its’ first soccer superstar in Christian Pulisic.
Very impressive breakdown! I didn't realize you were well-versed in both seamanship AND football!
It's unfortunate, because most activist laypersons see this only as a black/white issue; being qualified to play QB in the NFL is beyond them. It's affirmative action on steroids!
Well, at least it would be a starting point for negotiations!
The NFL wants a pocket passer that can easily decipher today’s sophisticated defenses. Colin Kaepernick can’t do that, and that’s why he’s not on a team right now.
The analysis on Kapernick was from a sports radio guy up here, who I like. He can be insanely silly and inappropriate, wasn't a great quarterback himself, and is an unapologetic homer for his team (though he can indeed criticize them when he feels the need) but I think the guy (Scott Zolak) is hilarious. He is basically a big frat boy, but doesn't come across as mean spirited. The kind of guy, who if I went to a party he was throwing and didn't know him, would come up to a nobody like me, put me in a headlock, give me a noogie, then hand me a solo cup full of beer and begin talking to me. But I think his analysis was spot on.
As for seamanship, I constantly tell people I was an Airedale (a brown-shoe in a black-shoe Navy!) and as such know far less about the granular experience of being ships crew in one of those ratings, but I know enough from a lifetime of being exposed to it that I think in many cases I understand it. And I can be wrong on things, having never done it. But I know for a fact if I am wrong, a Freeper will stand up and let me know.
I hope.
I don't watch television any more, don't have cable, but I do listen to a lot of audiobooks (having trouble reading books now due to my eyes) and read a lot on the internet. Last night I was watching a speech given by one of the key people on the Grumman F-14 project where he talked about the history of the F-14 in a way and at a level I have not heard done, and it was brilliantly given and informative (here is a link if this kind of thing interests you: F-14 Design Evolution ) where I learned a lot of things I didn't know...and I always had a conceit I knew a lot about the Tomcat.
My wife walked by (she had already long been in bed and had gotten up for a minute) and stared curiously at the video I was watching with graphs and charts of things like wing loading and specifications, and asked me what on earth I was watching. I am sure it was baffling to her that I would find that stuff interesting at midnight. It is also one of the reasons I enjoy Free Republic. I get exposure to so many things in a greater degree of depth than I would ever just stumble into on my own. I learn a lot here. I also learn there are a lot of people who know a LOT more about things than I do, and also that there are a LOT of people who NEED to learn more about some things!
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