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[n64coder]

If we assume that most football players have CTE, then what's different about old players like Frank Gifford or Jim Brown? Frank Gifford lived to 84. He was also a television announcer. He seems to have had a normal life. Jim Brown is still living at 81. What's different about these guys? They don't have CTE? Their brains adapted better to the effects? Or they played in a different era where guys were smaller and football equipment were more minimal?

 

[Nemesis121]

If we assume that most football players have CTE, then what's different about old players like Frank Gifford or Jim Brown? Frank Gifford lived to 84. He was also a television announcer. He seems to have had a normal life. Jim Brown is still living at 81. What's different about these guys? They don't have CTE? Their brains adapted better to the effects? Or they played in a different era where guys were smaller and football equipment were more minimal?

Or a side effect from all the different drugs they take, even the legal shit is harmful to the body and some of these players are playing hurt for all 16 games..

 

[FyreWulff]

If we assume that most football players have CTE, then what's different about old players like Frank Gifford or Jim Brown? Frank Gifford lived to 84. He was also a television announcer. He seems to have had a normal life. Jim Brown is still living at 81. What's different about these guys? They don't have CTE? Their brains adapted better to the effects? Or they played in a different era where guys were smaller and football equipment were more minimal?

Frank Gifford actually had CTE, his family had his brain checked for it.

Jim Brown is still alive so he can't be checked yet.

 

[CCS]

I don't know how much of a difference it would make, but one thing American Football should probably adopt from rugby on the basis of safety (as well as removing pads) is having to wrap your arms in the tackle, so players can't go flying in like missiles. Makes the individual contacts somewhat smoother.

 

[shira]

I don't know how much of a difference it would make, but one thing American Football should probably adopt from rugby on the basis of safety (as well as removing pads) is having to wrap your arms in the tackle, so players can't go flying in like missiles. Makes the individual contacts somewhat smoother.

Hugging people is not interesting.

Blowing some guy up missle-style gets you on hilight reels.

 

[Sunster]

They're already seeing reduced enrollment rates in HS football and below.

good

 

[GraveRobberX]

The problem with removing helmets or pads or bring old school leather helmets or removing face masks don't just erase CTE overnight

If that was it, it would've been mandated eons ago

Every new generation the people coming into the league are getting faster, stronger.
No device or science can catch up to that unless you literally nerf football to flag or two hand touch.

Go watch older games, look at players then and now
Training, dieting, PEDs, the science to gain an edge is ridiculous

Hell few players that were interviewed, what was the 1st big purchase they made from their new fortune

House?, Nope
Exotic Car? Nope
Jewelry?, Nope

A fucking Hyperbaric Chamber. Thing to increase Oxygen and Blood Vessels. Let that sink in.

The game at the moment might be losing viewers, yet still rakes in Billions.
Come Super Bowl, everyone will be at a party of sorts, enjoying the game, not worrying that those hits have consequences behind them

 

[GraveRobberX]

Hugging people is not interesting.

Blowing some guy up missle-style gets you on hilight reels.

There are Dirty ass players. Those need to be called out, huge fines, make tgat scorched earth

I was watching a little of the LSU game last week, was on in the background, I think 2 players got ejected going for the head

No mechanics of tackling teaches you to go for the head. You go for mid-section/thighs or legs, rap them up and take the honest tackle.
Most want to lay the "Book" to make it on to ESPN, then you just are creating a semi-nlood sport of getting the crowd into cheering for more brutality


That mofo should be out next 4 games, that would make also students realize your endangering a fellow player, who by the way isn't some NFL QB with millions of dollars in the bank that could take hits like that and be covered insurance and God forbid long term care down the line

 

[SolidSnakex]

If we assume that most football players have CTE, then what's different about old players like Frank Gifford or Jim Brown? Frank Gifford lived to 84. He was also a television announcer. He seems to have had a normal life. Jim Brown is still living at 81. What's different about these guys? They don't have CTE? Their brains adapted better to the effects? Or they played in a different era where guys were smaller and football equipment were more minimal?

The issue there is that we don't know what their private lives are like. You can take medicine that can help you. Here's a video on Gary Goodridge (a former MMA fighter) who has a form of CTE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5OUt53-6YM

He states right off the bat that he's certain that if he wasn't taking the pills he's given that he would've killed himself already. So in the case of older NFL players, we don't know if they have those urges or the memory loss that Goodridge talks about. Those are personal problems that people tend to want to keep private.

 

[Spuck-uk]

Then you got Rugby!

Which is a better game anyway*. No padding means players can't use their bodies as weapons as effectively..


*Although CTE is starting to show up there as well

 

[RedSwirl]

Posted yet? https://twitter.com/FTFonFS1/status/911252138050953217

 

[gamechanger87]

Give it time, I am sure there will be studies that show that any contact sport can lead to CTE.

Football has the most money and is the focus. Rugby is just now starting to really implement concussion protocols which is why you are seeing dramatic increases in concussions there as well.