NFL Players Live Longer and Have Fewer Suicides

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[Fido969]

I played football when I was a kid. Maybe I did suffer some neurological damage, but it’s about 1% of that the “medical marijuana” generation, begat by liberals, suffers.

[Ransomed]

You mean a population with a high % of wealthy people might not commit suicide as much as the general population, and even live longer, no matter if they have brain injuries at a higher % ?

Shocking.

Freegards

[IrishBrigade]

As Theodore Dalrymple once wondered, “Why do these excuse diseases never lead one to study the declension of French nouns?”

probably because the vast majority of French nouns, just as English nouns, do not decline...

he should have said ‘Latin nouns’...

[Don Hernando de Las Casas]

Interesting, especially the part about TD/INT ratios. I’ll have to look into that.

But we’re talking about 2 diff things.

You’re talking about making the game safer, I’m ridiculing the lefty, football kills “science,’ just as I ridicule their global warming “science,” and their 2nd hand smoke “science”.

[Don Hernando de Las Casas]

Good one! Theo is the man, therefore he cannot have been wrong, and the fault must be mine; I must have misquoted.

[Dr. Sivana]

You’re talking about making the game safer, I’m ridiculing the lefty, football kills “science,’ just as I ridicule their global warming “science,” and their 2nd hand smoke “science”.

Just as you don't have to be an anti-smoking nazi to agree that smoking can cause problems, you don't have to agree that football kills to agree that long-term play is debilitating for a lot of people. I'd like to mitigate that so the game doesn't get ruined.

This isn't the first time rules were changed for safety. From Wikipedia (Forward Pass):

906 rule change

1905 had been a bloody year on the gridiron; the Chicago Tribune reported 18 players had been killed and 159 seriously injured that season.[6] There were moves to outlaw the game, but United States President Theodore Roosevelt personally intervened and demanded that the rules of the game be reformed.

They do not come tougher than TR, and he's about as "politically incorrect" as any president since Andrew Jackson. Bully!

[Don Hernando de Las Casas]

Of course. Football can hurt you, even kill you. We agree.

It certainly could be safer, and maybe even ought to be safer.

Still, I ridicule the current lefty science surrounding football. That’s all.

[IrishBrigade]

So what is the solution, and still keep football football?

some things could be done: eliminate the three point stance on both lines of scrimmage, forcing blockers and tacklers to collide with their heads up, looking at each other; any attempted tackle above the waist should be made illegal, forcing tacklers to aim for the thighs, and wrap up the legs; reduce the passing game in the middle of the field, which is where receivers are the most defenseless...there are a lot of things which could make the game safer...

personally, I’d rather see flag football; wide open play all the time without the savage mayhem, though of course, as in all sports, there would still be mishaps...

[IrishBrigade]

Theo is the man, therefore he cannot have been wrong, and the fault must be mine; I must have misquoted.

since I haven’t the foggiest clue who Mr. Dalrymple is, I cannot comment on the fault being yours...

[Don Hernando de Las Casas]

He’s a prison psychologist in England, and he writes FABULOUS books on the underclass and the decline of Western society/culture, etc.

“Life At The Bottom” is my favorite.

[Dr. Sivana]

any attempted tackle above the waist should be made illegal, forcing tacklers to aim for the thighs, and wrap up the legs;

That's a big problem on goal line stands.

Football recognizable as football has to have a place for Deacon Jones, Dick "Night Train" Lane, Reggie White, Bronco Nagurski, Jack Youngblood and Gary Fencik.