Given current events maybe players have brain injuries their entire careers only to be discovered after retirement or death.
Many players displayed brain injuries yesterday. Scary.
This explains the recent behavior of many of these players.
I suspect a lot of the damage has nothing to do with football, either.
A careful diagnosis will also reveal that 99.99% of the brains within the halls of Congress are damaged as well.
Those that have brains, that is.
There is a big difference between signs of brain injury in a brain dissection and actual CTE diagnosis level dead brain matter
think a little skinned knee versus the Ducati hits a hot pavement skid at 60 with all that nice aggregate in the top of the asphalt and you’re wearing your Shoie full coverage helmet and just gym shirts and flip flops
Big difference
If I had known then what I know today I would never have let my son play high school football. Fortunately he was a bench warmer.
Can’t read the actual study without a subscription. And the article uses the conditional a lot. That said, bonking your brain repeatedly cannot be good for you.
Stories like these about NFL players make me think of a number of years ago, the little smurfs who wrote the sports pages back then (and many of whom still do) would lecture about how since that league made helmets mandatory and implemented strict standards on helmets and banned fighting years ago, why did the NHL either take so long or had not done so yet?
That’s certainly not to say NHL players have been immune to this problem (Reggie Fleming and Rick Martin as examples), but those of us who said that more equipment and banning fighting just makes it easier for the careless and stupid and also the cheap shot artists to continue their work seem to be vindicated by even this nowadays.
What was the rate and extent of injury in the control brains?
there’s no reason in the world that the NFL couldn’t invent a helmet that:
1. Is useless as a weapon for spearing opposing players,
2. Absorbs impact by the permanent deformation of interior components designed to absorb energy. Yes, frequent helmet changes would be necessary, but knowingly allowing your employees to systematically sustain systemic brain energy is both immoral AND bad for business.
I would also add that the NFL should add the NCAA rule that a player is automatically ejected for helmet-to-helmet targeting. I’ve noticed that such targeting now almost never happens in NCAA football since that rule was issued.
Stupid “study”, and even stupider of people to spread it around as if it is some kind of real “study”. Ever hear of selection bias? Hm?
Is brain injury their excuse for leftist beliefs?
BFD
I’ve run into trees snowboarding, taken hits to the in fights and other sports.
Heck, even got knocked out once.
Pretty sure I have some damage too but, got a pretty face so, it’s all good and the ladies love me...
So that’s their excuse for being a numb nuts .
There’s your sign.....
"donated" brains are a very select group...
of course people will donate their dead loved ones brains and they'll do it for specific reasons...the football player acted strange or the family wants money...
Well give them back their brains so they can understand that we stand up for the National Anthem...
Have they done tests on any other sport?
and what of combat veterans? What percentage of combat veteran donated brains have brain injuries?
And what of motorcycle rider brains? And democrats? And joggers? And teachers? Etc.