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Bob Costas on the future of football: 'This game destroys people's brains'
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sport...ins/842904001/
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11-09-2017, 03:28 PM | #106 |
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Count me among the people hoping that helmet technology continues to improve, serious advances have already been made... so just keep at it until its been perfected
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That said I don't care about the guys who are getting paid hundred of thousands if not millions to play it for a few years. That is their call, it's their life. |
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11-09-2017, 04:23 PM | #108 |
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Helmet can't prevent the brain from hitting the skull. It is just not going to happen. What they should do is reduce the padding and give them the leather helmets back so they can't use them as weapons. It will change the way the games are played but would limit spearing unless a dude is insane.
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The leather helmets would still need a facemask though, Hamas made an excellent point about that earlier |
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11-09-2017, 05:47 PM | #111 |
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Football destroys brains. So what's Bob's excuse?
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11-09-2017, 06:52 PM | #112 |
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He was talking about guys that never played football until college that went on to successful NFL careers or guys that never played college football at all that went on to have successful careers. Those guys don't apply. |
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11-09-2017, 07:16 PM | #114 |
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I have no doubt that they will be able to provide helmets/medical devices/drugs that will substantially decrease the risk to the brain.
I've seen scientific data that proves success with nano tech. The brain is a helluva lot more complicated than attacking something specific in the brain but its the same ballpark. The NFL should be funding the research at a BILLION $ clip. Their business model is under scrutiny and threat. Look how quickly the people turned against sexual harassment. All its going to take is some beloved player, aka Montana to publicly share and document their struggles with memory/motor skills and speak out against the NFL, they knew and should have done more. It will be wayyy worse than bad publicity and they knew the risks excuses.
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Players in those days weren’t all amazing athletes. The league wasn’t filled with 6’6, 275 pound guys running 4.7 40’s. The NFL would become so bloody and so gruesome without helmets that they’d lose all of their advertisers in one week. |
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What I wonder is why players with less protection in the first 80 years of the NFL/AFC clearly suffered worse but have less CTE issues.
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Nutrition, supplements, weight and speed training has changed not only football but basketball as well. These guys are so big and so strong and so fast that the collisions are easily 10x as powerful as those guys that played in the 40's and 50's (let alone, the 20's and 30's). Just 30 years ago, while in high school, the biggest guy and fastest guy, who went on to have a stellar career in NCAA Division I football, was 6'0, 210 pounds and played defensive line. He wouldn't be big enough to play Safety in today's NFL. |
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