re: Aaron Hernandez's Brain Showed Signs of Brain Injury Never Seen Before in Someone Under 40

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This story in isolation won't do it, but a case is gradually building up that's going to be the end of football as we know it.

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Voodoo Science. Makes my skin crawl when I read this nonsense. Thousands of variables cause brain injury and thousands of variables cause psychopathic deviance. Show me one scientific and conclusive analysis of variance. LOL, there is not one and most neurologists agree the evidence would be extremely weak at best.

He was making bad decisions in high school well before he could have had long lasting CTE issues.

So the expert who did not evaluate the case or see the evidence has all these conclusions?

Right

So just for fun I pulled up a YouTube video of a 1930 football game between Minnesota and Northwestern. Wasn't that bad. The level of play could have been better but wearing leather helmets, or a couple guys wearing no helmets, didn't change the game a ton. What you saw was blocking and tackling with the shoulders and not the head leading. I think it would be very interesting to see the game with how it is played today with the offense and formations played with throwback equipment. Big 12 type offenses would be the norm, I believe, just due to the equipment changes.

Interesting point. Thank you for sharing.

They really need to get some NBA players or something to be a contrasting population in a study. They would potentially be comparable athletes that don’t have a potential head trauma background.

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“They ought to be able to somehow correlate that to number of hits and concussions and stuff like that. It probably would correlate.”

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How could they do that?

Well, then someone needs to go back to his high school, Florida and NFL career and see how many concussions he played with.

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Unfortunately for the players they have 1 of 2 options... 1. Play football, get paid millions, risk potential brain damage 2. Don't play football, don't make millions, don't get brain damage As long as players are informed of the risks, there is no reason things should change. If they are willing to take the risk then let them. If the NFL keeps trying to dumb down the product everyone will end up with option #2 because no one will want to watch.

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Soccer players worldwide literally put NFL pay to shame.

Take the highest paid NFL player, and there are at least five to ten soccer players making much more a year, especially after endorsements.


Knowing this, What would you push your kid into

Option #3 Watch Soccer.

Ohh Boooyyy times are a changing