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.
similar to what I’ve read about boxing...once they made the gloves more padded, they were heavier, thus causing more damage to the brain, not less...