How soon until the NFL makes this mandatory for players in games?

[Copy Ninja]

there not spearing each other because they dont have 30-40 seconds in between plays to rest

They're still going at each other like crash test dummies though. Their technique is a lot better because they know they can't lead with their heads. If you watch this video these hits are brutal but these dudes are leading with their shoulder at impact

 

[NYC Rebel]

They're still going at each other like crash test dummies though. Their technique is a lot better because they know they can't lead with their heads. If you watch this video these hits are brutal but these dudes are leading with their shoulder at impact

We have guy who made it all the way into the NFL without knowing how to tackle correctly

 

[VegasCAC]

Yup, the 1904 season when 18 high school and college players died in a single year (back when the US population was a small fraction of what it is today).

To be fair though, the main tactic back then was to interlink arms as a whole squad and charge the other team. That led to a bunch of trampling deaths and repeated blunt force trauma when you'd get hit by the force of a moving car when you had the ball and squeezed in a mass of bodies

 

[Copy Ninja]

We have guy who made it all the way into the NFL without knowing how to tackle correctly

Probably taught incorrect technique at the youth level and up.

When I played from pop warner to HS, my coaches used to tell us to put our facemask into people's chest. This was in the 90's well before concussions was discussed like it is today.

 

[El Bombi]

Didn't they try this in training camp and they still got concussions?

Actually concussions in training camp went down by a large margin because of it.

 

[El Bombi]

Cats think that Burfict is going to launch his head at Antonio Brown the same way if there was no helmets. This play never happens in a no helmet league. We all played Pickup Football growing up with no helmets and nobody ever got a concussion because we didn't run like crash test dummies.

The play that turned A.B. into a mental head case.

 

[thelonious21]

Seriously… What does a helmet protect other than bruising? The advent of the helmet we know today came from players faces getting beat up. What are you did, unknowingly was speed up the game, create greater collisions and more concussions

Come on son..

 

[NYC Rebel]

Come on son..

Answer the question. What does football helmets do but protect people from facial and head scarring? That is the main reason why the helmet that we see today was created. Guys were getting broken teeth, jaws, eyesockets all fukked up. That’s why the helmet was created. But other than that it doesn’t protect you from brain trauma and actually made it more of an issue because with the facial and scarring protection, impacts and collisions between deadlier and more head trauma became the result. You need to peep the evolution of why helmets came to be.

The only thing helmets protect are scarring and broken facial parts. But it has helped to INCREASE brain injuries as a result of “that” protection giving players liberty to use their heads more recklessly in making or breaking tackles


I don’t understand what you’re not getting.

 

[Copy Ninja]

Football was nearly banned as a sport by President Teddy Roosevelt in the days before helmets due to all the deaths.

Deadspin | Did Football Cause 20 Deaths In 1905? Re-Investigating A Serial Killer

Deadspin | Did Football Cause 20 Deaths In 1905? Re-Investigating A Serial Killer

deadspin.com

Article gives some context to those numbers -

If you're the kind of person who needs a final number of things, that's 20 people in 1905 whose deaths were, in some way, associated with the playing of football. But it's not so simple. How should we count the knee infection that, though it occurred during a football game, clearly would not have resulted in death with access to modern medicine? How should we count a kid who had a weed go up his goddamn nose?

Even the deaths from actual football injuries bear more scrutiny. A man getting jumped on by 10 other men, none of whom has padding, none of whom is restrained by any rules other than those governed by his conscience, is far removed from the game and controversy we are considering today.

 

[Nero Christ]

The NFL won't do that....fact is, there is a certain psychology within their fanbase that enjoys this sort of stuff

 

[NYC Rebel]

The NFL won't do that....fact is, there is a certain psychology within their fanbase that enjoys this sort of stuff

Yep. Notice football took off when those helmets came in to play. The collisions were like nothing seen before.

 

[Nero Christ]

Yep. Notice football took off when those helmets came in to play. The collisions were like nothing seen before.

Helmets make players look like crash test dummies and everybody slows down to look at the crash

 

[JP_614]

Cats think that Burfict is going to launch his head at Antonio Brown the same way if there was no helmets. This play never happens in a no helmet league. We all played Pickup Football growing up with no helmets and nobody ever got a concussion because we didn't run like crash test dummies.

fukkING IDIOT COST OF THE DAMN GAME fukkING LOSER

 

[OperationNumbNutts]

They should just do away with helmets. They should study if Rugby players have the same rate of concussion as football players.

 

[Leonard Washington]

I've always said they should go with no helmets because defenders wouldn't foolishly launch head first anymore if they had no protection. Running Backs aren't going to lower their heads like a battering ram. It would decrease Concussions by a significant amount.