re: Larry Fedora fighting the war on the war on football

Everyone who's bashing Fedora needs to read this article by yahoo.

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“I totally agree with him,” says Peter Cummings, a neuropathologist and associate professor of anatomy and neurobiology at Boston University School of Medicine. “Association is not causation. CTE has also been found in individuals not exposed to contact sports. It’s not a settled matter by any means. And football is safer today than it has ever been. In fact, I would argue that no other sport has made a more radical transformation in response to safety concerns than football. His comments reflect the reality of the scientific uncertainty surrounding CTE.”


Studies expressing caution about “settled” assumptions regarding CTE are largely ignored by the media – a mere speed bump on the way to the inevitable conclusion that football kills. Only a couple of weeks ago, two leading CTE researchers came out with a study that said this: “Recently there has been a significant amount of media attention surrounding the commonness of CTE in professional athletes, particularly American football, based on several postmortem case series. However, despite the persuasive claims made by the media about CTE, research on the disease and the effects of mTBI [mild traumatic brain injury] in general remain in its infancy.”

“CTE has been seen in college athletes and high school athletes, but these are a few anecdotal cases,” says Daniel Perl, a neuropathologist at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Maryland. “How extensive this problem is, we don’t know. The concept that a kid who gets a concussion is at risk and on the way to developing CTE is a real stretch.”

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It has nothing to do with football, but the mentality of the country.

A country so pussified that football cannot exist is a country so pussified that it is incapable of remaining strong and prosperous.

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, what?

Football is changing for safety reasons due to mounting lawsuits. Whether or not it survives in its current form will have everything to do with money and nothing to do with who is or is not a pussy.

Hell, the heroes of yesteryear are the pussies who started this mess with their lawsuits.

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A country so pussified that football cannot exist is a country so pussified that it is incapable of remaining strong and prosperous.

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I'm sure the internet hipsters and chronic contrarians will disagree, but there is merit to this. Our society has become risk averse when it comes to children it has gotten ridiculous. I guarantee suburban mothers with their kids today won't even let Jayden, Kayden and Kyler climb a tree; much less play tackle football.