Super Bowl Sunday: The day America celebrates football --- and brain damage
By George Will
Published Feb. 6, 2016
Here's an excerpt from the linked article:
How many deceased players had, and how many former players have, or how many current players will have, CTE is unknown because it can be confirmed only by autopsy. Its symptoms, however, are similar to those of dementia.
Football's kinetic energy is increasing as the players become bigger and even the biggest become faster. In 1980, only three NFL players weighed 300 or more pounds. This season, 354 did, including seven 350-pounders.
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Super Bowl Sunday: The day America celebrates football - and brain damage
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You mad, bro?
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The league is treating player's health with the utmost priority. Concussions have been reduced dramatically and football has never been more profitable. Free market, baby!
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You gotta love the irony of George Will writing about brain damage.
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2funny wrote:
You gotta love the irony of George Will writing about brain damage.
Ummm, he's not Nancy Pelosi, and even if you disagree with him, you may find him, as I do, a very good writer. -
Being a good writer requires more than using words you don't understand. Don't be fooled.
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Obviously no NFL player can understand George Will after a couple years in the league.
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No one can understand him. He writes nonsense.
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Beer farts
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I had the thought that If no one watches the game, all of today's brain damage will have been for nothing.
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Baldy wrote:
I had the thought that If no one watches the game, all of today's brain damage will have been for nothing.
They went to college so they should have a edge- u-ma-cation , that's why they get the big $$$$$$. -
Baldy wrote:
I had the thought that If no one watches the game, all of today's brain damage will have been for nothing.
I didn't have that thought. -
Brain Damaged Baller wrote:
Baldy wrote:
I had the thought that If no one watches the game, all of today's brain damage will have been for nothing.
I didn't have that thought.
I see what you did there ... -
A lot of bashing-in-of brains so far in the first half.
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It's not just Americans watching. This game's being watched all over the world.
http://screengrabber.deadspin.com/german-announcers-lose-minds-for-the-broncos-touchdown-1757689007
http://screengrabber.deadspin.com/austrian-tvs-super-bowl-intro-kicks-way-more-ass-than-c-1757675685
http://deadspin.com/the-only-super-bowl-preview-you-need-is-this-taiwanese-1757654604 -
The forward pass and blocking are to blame. Before pads and helmets, players kept getting killed during games. You can't expect pads and helmets to really fix that, particularly when they enable much more vicious tackles.
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Let's be clear. Footballers are not Einsteins; actually they are more like cavemen. Nothing much is being lost here when some ex-player develops CTE. I say let them bash each others "brains" out if they want to.
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lefs wrote:
It's not just Americans watching. This game's being watched all over the world.
http://screengrabber.deadspin.com/german-announcers-lose-minds-for-the-broncos-touchdown-1757689007
http://screengrabber.deadspin.com/austrian-tvs-super-bowl-intro-kicks-way-more-ass-than-c-1757675685
http://deadspin.com/the-only-super-bowl-preview-you-need-is-this-taiwanese-1757654604
Das blindside.
