PBS Frontline: League Of Denial - The NFL's Concussion Crisis

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The sad thing is that for all the talk about parents not letting their kids play football anymore... It's only going to stop kids from suburban communities from playing. Poor folk are still going to see the NFL as an avenue to get the fukk out of that life and some parents will not steer them in a different direction because they also want their child to make it big.
 

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Great documentary and really made me despise the the greedy @ssholes in the backgroun of the NFL. can't believe they sidelined and ostracized omalu like that, dudes really are grimy.

As for football being banned, won't happen, but to me, it's like the military, football will be come dominated by the economically disadvantaged and lower class who are willing to take the risks for the payout. Outside of the good ol boy families in the south, I don't see how well to do families will continue to send their sons into the sport.

this is already the case
 

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watchin this shyt now :wow:

cant continue to be ignored

MLS probably watchin all this like

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Its not only helmet to helmet. Dont forget spinal cord concussions too(CTEM). When you hear player A suffered a neck injury...
Great point

There isn't much to do to protect the brain and spine.
 

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Just watched it. Powerful.

It's more so unrelated but the aikman story fukked me up a lil bit b/c while i never played football in high school I did hoop for my HS squad and had a freak accident my sophmore year where i bit on a pump fake and was undercut/clipped/whatever (i guess the dude tried to duck under me like i would just soar over him or some shyt) and I end up flippin over and crashin on my head.

Now I don't remember biting on the pump fake, I don't remember falling. I dont remember there even being a 2nd half. All I remember was me sitting on the bench at halftime lookin at some of my teammates forming a layup line.. and then the next thing I can recall is being on my back lookin up at a bright ass light and goin into a chamber (CT Scan).. Felt like i was dreaming. Then next thing i recall, i'm in a hospital bed with no one but my dad in a chair pulled up next to me.

And the aikman thing fukked me up because I kept on asking my dad what time it was. And he would answer me. I would say ok... but like 2 minutes later, I would ask him that exact same question again and again. Where are we? Ok. What time is it? Ok. Um.. where are we? Ok, cool. Hey dad, what time is it?? And at some point its like i had a sense of de ja vu, like, didnt i just ask him that?? Why do i keep on asking him that?? But wait, what time IS it tho?

So then i'm walkin out the hospital and into the car but it was like a dream sequence and I still have no memory of what happened between halftime and the CT scan/being at the hospital with my dad.

But everyone told me that I was "awake" the whole time. That after the fall, blood was running down both nostrils but I kept on muttering to everybody or to myself that "it's all good" (or just some phrase i was known to say back then). that i was able to get up and walk/be escorted to the locker room to get my stuff and whatever else.. but i just couldn't remember any of it or how i made it to the hospital, etc. And i had a big ass lump in the back of my head for days that scared the shyt outta me too

So i really couldn't imagine having something like that occur 3, 4, 5, 7 times.. not to mention the countless non-concussion hits that would occur day to day and week to week for those who do go the football route
 

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any person with common sense knew football is a terrible for your health. Thats why no other country plays this dumb sport
the only sport (when it was starting out) where death was common

then they just tweaked it a bit to stop the deaths and only create serious injuries

then they tweaked it a bit more to limit the serious injuries and limit the effects to after players retired


kind of a good snapshot of america :blessed:
 

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Im assuming alot of the local Chicago cats saw this story, did this go national though?

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/...ootball-player-high-school-football-game-coma

Football player in coma after collapsing at game
Chicago Public Schools is not releasing information about Williams' injury. But according to a Web page set up to relay information about his condition, he suffered a subdural hematoma — bleeding along the surface of the brain — and is in a coma at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn.

scary shyt.
 

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the only sport (when it was starting out) where death was common

then they just tweaked it a bit to stop the deaths and only create serious injuries

then they tweaked it a bit more to limit the serious injuries and limit the effects to after players retired


kind of a good snapshot of america :blessed:

I've been sayin' football is like a microcosom of U.S. Society.

It's
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