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This is correct.

One way to reduce the force with which the brain hits the inside of the skull is to reduce the force of one player's body on the other. If you take away the extra leverage created by cleats pushing off a grass or fieldturf surface, you could slow down players and lower collision impact. Possibly some type of flat shoe with a spongy surface of some sort? Just spit balling here.

Probably would see an increase in other types of injuries with this. But most likely not life threatening ones.

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Posted by RidiculousHype

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Posted on 7/17/16 at 2:48 pm to KosmoCramer

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Probably would see an increase in other types of injuries with this. But most likely not life threatening ones.

There would be a lot of details to work out to limit knee/ankle injuries but the overriding point is that the only way to prevent the brain from slamming into the inside of the skull is to lower the force of one player's body on another. And the only way to do that is to look into the bottom of the foot's interaction with the ground.

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Posted by slackster

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Posted on 7/18/16 at 9:34 am to KosmoCramer

It is counterintuitive but I'm pretty confident you'd cut down on the regularity of brain trauma if you played barefooted with no pads or helmets.

I'm being somewhat facetious, but people aren't as prone to launch when they're unprotected. To some extent the safety equipment today encourages more violent play than you'd see without it, although I doubt there is a net safety gain without pads and a helmet.

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