Junior Seau- DEAD

Pretty cowardly way to go out though, suicide coupled with text messaging. Talk about avoidance behaviors. After all these years of being a tough guy and "leader of men," as the ESPN talking heads have said, he could have at least called and given them the opportunity to help.

If I jumped so fast, why is there already a 100 plaintiff law suit?

Why did the NFL start cracking down on helmet to helmet hits LAST YEAR?

There have been a number of recent scientific studies linking head trauma to depression/dementia-- turns out some people are predisposed.

Ever wonder why some boxers go punch drunk, some don't? Same thing.

Google the studies. As I mentioned, one showed significant damage in some soccer players!

If a few hard headers will do damage, what do you think 12 years as an NFL linebacker will do?

NFL has been terrified of this issue since they started mandating evaluations post concussion.

Now they've got a huge problem.

Keep in mind, I'm not anti-football. I played in college. No jokes about head trauma, too easy.

Junk Master wrote:

There have been a number of recent scientific studies linking head trauma to depression/dementia-- turns out some people are predisposed.

Serious question: is any sort of "micro"-trauma possible from continuous long running over extended periods of time...?

It may seem like I'm joking but does anyone else remember b.lagat's post-race treatment where the doctor said the impact of his race was equivalent to a car crash...?

"Far-reaching assumptions," really? It doesn't seem that extreme to think that Seau had friends and family, and that those people were sad he left them so suddenly. What is the crux of the issue?

tango tango fart fart wrote:

"Far-reaching assumptions," really? It doesn't seem that extreme to think that Seau had friends and family, and that those people were sad he left them so suddenly. What is the crux of the issue?

This is such a trivial concern and I question your cognitive ability. Yes, it is not far-reaching to think he has friends/family. Duh. The far-reaching assumption that I was referencing (also the only far-reaching assumption in the previous post) was "he had a job you don't like." Now if we can't discern rhetorical variances of degrees then, well, we're having two different conversations.

Also, I question my own cognitive ability for reply to your post.

-Shawowski

Junk Master wrote:

If I jumped so fast, why is there already a 100 plaintiff law suit?

Are you so naive that you dont think that thelawyers dont see blood in the water and are looking to get into that deep pocket of the NFL??

This suicide is the best thing that could have happened for them.

-You create a national hysteria about something.

-You release tons of "studies" linking whatever your target is to X disease.

-Then you file a class action suite. If you are lucky the suite will affect a large number of VERY profitable companies who will settle for a large amount of cash.

(cigarettes, silicon breast implants, etc..)

So are you denying a link between repeated concussions and depression, dementia, and suicide?

Just take a good, long look at the history of boxing.

Or is your position, much like the NFL's will undoubtedly be, that these young men understood the risks they were taking?

How can you understand the risks you are taking without knowing if you are genetically predisposed?

Or are you refuting the link to genetic predisposition?

Tons of studies, linkage like the one below--

"As brothers, Eric and Brett Lindros realized the boyhood dream of almost every red-blooded Canadian male – playing professional hockey for a living in the National Hockey League.

But as they came to discover, their sibling bond extended beyond a shared affinity for big goals and even bigger bodychecks, the dream souring as multiple concussions deprived both of prolonged careers. Brett, the younger of the pair, was the first to go in 1996, forced to hang up his skates after just 51 NHL games having suffered three concussions in a little over a year. At that time Eric had yet to suffer his first, but once he did, in 1998, they came thick and fast, with seven more to follow over the next six seasons before he finally called it a day in 2007."

Im saying that people kill themselves all the time. Pinning the cause on the topic de jure is silly and short sighted.

Two yrs ago this would've been attributed to steroid use because that was the cause o' the day.