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MMA is definitely not my area of expertise so i’d have to defer to you. I know we had martial arts of some sort in high school but I don’t know the rules or what type. It was a big thing between the wrestlers and the fighters and lots of arguments were had over which was the cooler group.

My high school had MMA. Way back before it was popular. I didn’t do it so I have no idea if choking was allowed. This article is back from 2008. https://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/18/sports/othersports/18mma.html I was talking about OLine but I see now that I never specified. My fault. I’m guessing Utley is the online O linemen in NFL history to be paralyzed? .

Edit: i’m talking about o-line. I just realized I never specified that which is my fault. I played o-line so my brain naturally defaults “linemen” to o-line. Keep in mind we are talking about debilitating injuries. I was a LT for many years. Getting your ankle or knee rolled up isn’t likely to cause a debilitating lifelong injury, though sure it can happen. And CTE only becomes a risk past a 2x modifier if you play past high school. It’s college, semi pro and pro football where your CTE risk goes way up. If I remember the study correctly, it was 2x in high school and like 13x or something if you kept playing after high school. I’ve also never seen a linemen have a spinal cord injury/be paralyzed/any of the other maladies you see linebackers, CB’s, WR’s etc take. Again - I’m not saying it hasn’t happened - just that ive never seen it. That’s usually a tackler injury. Have you? No that would be RB’s. By far the most injured. DT and DE are more injured too. OT and OG are among the least injured positions in football.

I love when people try to get all sarcastic when they’re wrong. Yes, there is a push to get MMA in high schools right now and it’s been in some schools since the mid 2000’s. https://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/18/sports/othersports/18mma.html Because every single one of those sports has CTE and concussions. I was using the actual data. Concussions account for 23% of injuries in boys hockey. It accounts for 17% in lacrosse and football. And it accounts for 15% in girls soccer. You mention the “sheer amount of blows” but the data doesn’t show the drastic increase in concussions from those blows at the youth level. Heck, cycling had more head injuries in 2018 than football.

I would say linemen have the least chance of a debilitating injury.

No amount of semantics will get you out of the fact that Wallace said he lined up the way he was supposed to line. It is here. In print. Black and white. English language. Even highlighted. ”this was how we was supposed to line up”

They are grooming them to become olympians or paid athletes. Thats what Tua’s dad did, from what i’ve heard.

I read this morning that the 2nd instance of cardiac arrest at the hospital never happened. It was a misunderstanding by his uncle.

I can’t imagine that small, thin amount of padding would protect much of anything unfortunately. I’ve seen those type of shirts at ***** and you can compress the padding with 2 fingers.

It’s important to note that you would have to ban nearly all sports. CTE has been seen in Football, Hockey, Soccer, Rugby, Baseball, Basketball, and MMA. You would essentially be removing sports from children's lives. Come on…. You didn’t really type that with a straight face

Sorry I missed it - what did Dawkins say?

Probably not, because this would BE the tiebreaker.

WOW. So they essentially pick a random Chiefs game and call it a no-contest. If it’s a Chiefs win, then Bills get 1 seed.

Saw this on another forum. What!? “Benjamin Allbright said on the radio that the NFL, as of now, is planning on not playing the Bills/Bengals game and will label it as “No Contest.” They’ll then use a random number generator to pick a random game on the Chiefs schedule, whatever game the random number generator lands on will be listed as “No Contest” and they’ll determine the seeding based on that.”

I’m on Saturday’s side. If Allen was writhing like that on the ground and Dawkins, Morse etc weren’t lighting up Thibidough i’d be pissed! I posted it yesterday but a mod locked it because of “misleading title” as I thought Foles had a seizure (really he was just writhing in pain). Instead of just correcting the title they locked it. .

I am a believer and will always profess that Jesus is my Lord & Savior. Prayer works and I continue to pray!

He had CTE too. The Hunt’s did as he requested and took care of his daughter. They started a trust fund for her.

I do understand how you feel though. It feels as if the season is over. But I don’t think it has to be.

“Off” doesn’t mean the team has been bad. ”Off” is a personal feeling. Things just haven’t felt “right” to me ever since that happened. But why? What would that accomplish? Youre right that it’s more than a game but none of the players are doctors or nurses. Playing doesn’t take away care from Hamlin. It doesn’t even take away attention from him, as each game can be dedicated to him.

I guess I don’t understand why it can’t be both? Why can’t we root for Damar’s health and improvement, while also going out and winning a Super Bowl for him? Why must it be either/or?

The season has felt “off” to me as soon as Hyde went down.

I was just looking at the Bills snap counts. I think it’s fair to say the coaches are sour on Elam. Elam has not played more than 40~% of the defensive snaps since October. The lowest of the healthy CB’s. He has played 0% of the snaps in two of the last four games (yesterday was only 2 defensive series so maybe he would have had some snaps later on). Thankfully, Benford is back practicing though we likely don’t see him until the playoffs as he rams back up to speed. Tre is averaging between 90-100% of snaps the last 3 games.

Tomlin is a great person by all accounts. I was listening to a former play - didn’t catch the name - and they said back in their playing days he BEGGED Tomlin to let him play after an injury. Even brought in doctors and so forth to convince Tomlin. After a bit, he kicked everyone out of the room except the player and told him “if you were my child, I wouldn’t let you play” and that was that. He cares about his players.

Thanks for posting this Yolo. Do we know if the medical team that helped Hamlin was Bills staff or a mix of Bills and stadium?