Antwaan Randle El regrets playing football: has memory loss and can barely walk

[GzUp]

My 11 year old plays FB and is a monster. That said I'm putting him in baseball this summer .

Still what people forget/ignore is that the game done changed. 10 years ago nobody was checking for head injuries. I've coached youth football and HS varsity ball a few years back and a kid can't have a headache without sitting out practice and needing to get cleared by a doctor. One of my sons old teammates sat out a whole year because he may have possibly had a concussion even though he passed all the tests and the dr said he could play. As a coach we were instructed to take no chances with any head stuff. I coached DBs for a team that lost 3 LBs for a number of games due to suspected concussions, stuff I would've played through without a word in HS. What we're going to see is far less of this stuff because awareness is sky high and the hits that often cause concussions and head issues are being taken out of the game.

And here's the other thing: everyone ignores the fact that the people reporting these types of problems are almost all former NFL players. Guys playing against physical freaks in peak shape. If football was so damaging at the lower levels why don't we have entire generations of men struggling to think? Why aren't all my HS teammates dealing with health issues due to football? The game gets dangerous once you start dealing with 250lb LBs and 220lbs safeties running 4.4's

breh we do, if you research enough u will find ex highschool players with problems once they got older.

 

[reserved_one]

I'm having my future sons get into either basketball or baseball. I love football to death, but I can't risk having them become beat down crippled old men at an early age.
Only way, they'll play football is if they become kickers/punters....just like the Gawd Marquette King

 

[GzUp]

Look at Steve Gleason

Play football brehs

he has ALS though, head trauma does not cause ALS.

 

[Ronnie Lott]

anybody who chooses football over baseball is a moron

thats why i dont understand why that nikka Kyler Murray is still playing football

Yet you have a Ravens avi

 

[NYC Rebel]

Is there potential for to be injured permanently while driving a car?

And I see you skipped over my soccer info

Injured permanently is slanted answer. Injured slightly or routine injuries, nicks and things that come with football are almost a certainty.

Randell El wasn't injured permanently when he left this game idiot. Why on earth would you use the injured permanently angle? To be a dumb ass that equates getting in a car accident to that of knowing you're getting into one playing football?

My god, the stupidity.

 

[Juven]

Meanwhile @Trip and @Juven out here salivating at the thought of letting their sons get brain damage

nah i just like watching the game. people have died in boxing but we still watch it
Mich. boxer Hamzah Ajahmi, 19, dies after collapsing in ring during Youngstown fight

bytch ass nfl owners had it coming anyway hiding all this info and not taking care of their players. Only so much bullshyt you can get away with

 

[Ronnie Lott]

Injured permanently is slanted answer. Injured slightly or routine injuries, nicks and things that come with football are almost a certainty.

Randell El wasn't injured permanently when he left this game idiot. Why on earth would you use the injured permanently angle? To be a dumb ass that equates getting in a car accident to that of knowing you're getting into one playing football?

My god, the stupidity.

Again, without the emotion, is there risk for injury with driving a car?

Have more people died from football or died from car accidents

 

[Verbal Kint]

breh we do, if you research enough u will find ex highschool players with problems once they got older.

I haven't seen NY of that research

 

[He Who Posts Well]

Why is that though? There's been numerous cases of HS football players dying on the field and not one in the NFL.

It's a combination of things. High schools don't have the medical staff or resources to take care of players like the NFL does. Some high school players really have no business on the field especially when smaller schools are playing the bigger schools with more physically developed players. Also they aren't being taught proper techniques like how to tackle which, when done wrong, leads to injury.

 

[Throwbacksample]

That's in the Dominican republic, cuba, and mexico. And US is sending scouts over there and money to get them into organized sports and buy the rights to bring them over to the states.

 

[MostReal]

NFL is seriously going to have to go back to playing ground and pound with huge shoulder pads again. All these pass plays is too much on the body. Too much risk for high impact collisions

 

[beenz]

nikkas in here talking like they kids actually got a shot at making it to the nfl.

and that kinda makes it worse. why put your kids in brain damage risk for zero dollars?

 

[Rekkapryde]

and that kinda makes it worse. why put your kids in brain damage risk for zero dollars?

 

[Hey_zeus]

That basketball team was special I remember Watch them vs bloom blowing bloom out they just couldn't beat manual high with frank Williams,Marcus Griffin and sergo McClain ty streets, Napoleon Harris,Antwan randle el and melvin ely on one squad they could have won 4 straight IHSA titles

IHSA was fixing them brackets anyway. How all the Chicago area teams got to play each other before the finals? Farragut with kg and Ronnie fields vs Thornton in the quarters when that should've been the finals. Peoria probably wins anyway.

 

[Supa]

Wes Welker had an estimated 10 concussions in the NFL. 3 in a 9 month period. He probably has CTE now