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Ed Cunningham resigns as ESPN CFB analyst
Posted on 8/30/17 at 11:01 am
Posted on 8/30/17 at 11:01 am
"Traumatized by brain trauma on the field." Did games with Mike Patrick. He was a pretty good Color analyst honestly
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But Cunningham, 48, resigned from one of the top jobs in sports broadcasting because of his growing discomfort with the damage being inflicted on the players he was watching each week. The hits kept coming, right in front of him, until Cunningham could not, in good conscience, continue his supporting role in football’s multibillion-dollar apparatus.
“I take full ownership of my alignment with the sport,” he said. “I can just no longer be in that cheerleader’s spot.”
This post was edited on 8/30/17 at 11:02 am
Posted on 8/30/17 at 11:02 am to Fus0623
Dang, I liked him.
But damn he sounds like a pussy.
But damn he sounds like a pussy.
This post was edited on 8/30/17 at 11:04 am
Posted on 8/30/17 at 11:03 am to Fus0623
Is it me or is everyone losing their damn minds about every single subject
Posted on 8/30/17 at 11:03 am to Fus0623
Would be nice to see Jay "I rage against the NCAA, but make a living off of it" Bilas do the same.
This post was edited on 8/30/17 at 11:08 am
Posted on 8/30/17 at 11:04 am to Fus0623
Sounds like he will sue the NFL for mental anguish.
Posted on 8/30/17 at 11:04 am to SoFunnyItsNot
quote:Welcome to the social media era
Is it me or is everyone losing their damn minds about every single subject
Posted on 8/30/17 at 11:10 am to SoFunnyItsNot
quote:
Is it me or is everyone losing their damn minds about every single subject
Sort of, this guy is not just commenting but actually giving something up.
Posted on 8/30/17 at 11:14 am to Fus0623
He needs a service animal or a safe space
Posted on 8/30/17 at 11:17 am to Fus0623
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"A cause-and-effect relationship has not yet been demonstrated between CTE and SRCs or exposure to contact sports. As such, the notion that repeated concussion or subconcussive impacts cause CTE remains unknown."
- 5th International Conference on Concussion in Sport (April, 2017)
He was a great analyst. It really sucks that he is too naive to dig past the surface and not just swallow whole what certain interests groups repeat. Some people just grow whatever seed is planted in their head and don't question it.
Posted on 8/30/17 at 11:23 am to Fus0623
More power to him. Sounds like a personal decision and I can respect that
Posted on 8/30/17 at 11:32 am to Fus0623
I liked him so kinda bummed. That said, wish Mike Patrick would go too.
Posted on 8/30/17 at 11:46 am to Forkbeard3777
Some offensive lineman lose 50-60 months within months of leaving the sport. One of the linemen I knew in college was 290 in November and was 235 by April.
Jeff Saturday looks like a totally different person too.
Jeff Saturday looks like a totally different person too.
Posted on 8/30/17 at 11:53 am to ReauxlTide222
In the couple games I listened to him in recent memory, I thought he was really bad to be completely honest.
Posted on 8/30/17 at 12:11 pm to Forkbeard3777
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He was a Center....?
Have you seen David Pollack? You'd swear he played DB. Lineman drop a shite ton of LB's after their playing days
Posted on 8/30/17 at 1:44 pm to Fus0623
It is always admirable to see someone put his money where his mouth is, but people really need to step back and take a deep breath on this whole football/CTE thing. It's a real issue with some troubling implications, no doubt, but we still don't have good answers to some really important questions, namely:
1). How common are neurological symptoms in former football players? What percentage of former NFL (or college, or high school) players have neurological problems at age 50, 60, 70, or 80, and how does this figure compare to the American male population of that age at large? Knowing this would allow us (and, more importantly, the young men making decisions about playing football) to at least roughly quantify the degree of long-term neurological risk involved. Having "some signs of CTE," while clearly alarming, is not the same thing as having a significant cognitive impairment--just like not everyone with "some signs of arteriosclerosis" will end up having a heart attack.
2). What will be the impacts of the changes that have been made in recent years to address this issue? In the last fifteen years or so, we have seen rules changes, practice modifications, increased concussion awareness, and equipment improvements. Will those changes significantly improve the long-term neurological prognosis for players today, compared to those who played in the 1970s and 1980s?
3). Are there further changes that can be made to mitigate risk, like not beginning tackle football until high school or modifying/improving equipment? It doesn't have to be all-or-nothing, where we either pretend like there's no problem or we boycott football.
4). How do the risks of long-term injury in football compare to those in other sports? Every sport has some degree of risk--where will we draw the line in terms of what we can't, in good conscience, support?
People who have a knee-jerk anti-football reaction in response to the CTE issues need to think about all of these questions--none of which have good, clear answers yet--before they just start rooting for the demise of the game that we all love.
1). How common are neurological symptoms in former football players? What percentage of former NFL (or college, or high school) players have neurological problems at age 50, 60, 70, or 80, and how does this figure compare to the American male population of that age at large? Knowing this would allow us (and, more importantly, the young men making decisions about playing football) to at least roughly quantify the degree of long-term neurological risk involved. Having "some signs of CTE," while clearly alarming, is not the same thing as having a significant cognitive impairment--just like not everyone with "some signs of arteriosclerosis" will end up having a heart attack.
2). What will be the impacts of the changes that have been made in recent years to address this issue? In the last fifteen years or so, we have seen rules changes, practice modifications, increased concussion awareness, and equipment improvements. Will those changes significantly improve the long-term neurological prognosis for players today, compared to those who played in the 1970s and 1980s?
3). Are there further changes that can be made to mitigate risk, like not beginning tackle football until high school or modifying/improving equipment? It doesn't have to be all-or-nothing, where we either pretend like there's no problem or we boycott football.
4). How do the risks of long-term injury in football compare to those in other sports? Every sport has some degree of risk--where will we draw the line in terms of what we can't, in good conscience, support?
People who have a knee-jerk anti-football reaction in response to the CTE issues need to think about all of these questions--none of which have good, clear answers yet--before they just start rooting for the demise of the game that we all love.
Posted on 8/30/17 at 1:50 pm to Keys Open Doors
Alan Faneca lost a ton of weight.
Always liked Ed.
Always liked Ed.
Posted on 8/30/17 at 7:23 pm to Fus0623
Pollack got off the juice in losing all that weight. His whole body shrunk.
Posted on 8/30/17 at 8:51 pm to ReauxlTide222
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But damn he sounds like a pussy.
Typical "man up" logic.
Posted on 8/31/17 at 12:16 am to Fus0623
Ed Cunningham is a fricking joke and the worst color guy espn had for college football. So glad hes gone and of course he has to go out like the pussy jackass he is. Football is safer than it has ever been, expect cnn interviews from this a-hole for years to come
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