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.....how can they solely attribute it to the NFL?.....what about collegiate ball at Florida or even HS ball?....is there any level of pre-requisite testing done?....don't think so.......

Even Pee Wee football

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Even Pee Wee football

 

....EXACTLY....where do you draw the line?.....or do you cast what we call in business the WIDE NET to include everybody and see who caves?......we are in a WIDE NET lawsuit that has NINETEEN defendants...it's like dropping a crab pot on Deadliest Catch and see what you come up with.....crazy.........

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Most people who do awful things grew up in awful environments. It doesn't excuse what they did but there is a reason it happened.

 

 

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CTE is like the high ankle. No one had one 20 years ago and now only football players do.

They're actually putting together a spectrum of brain injuries, and unsurprisingly CTE and PTSD show similar manifestations from physical damage to brain tissue down to predisposition for suicides. This is a study from 2011 if you have the time:

 

http://thejns.org/doi/full/10.3171/2011.9.FOCUS11178

 

What's interesting is that the estimation for soldiers in active duty during OEF and OIF had as high as 30% chance of suffering a traumatic brain injury, and that brain damage from repeated concussive activities occurring both in combat and training likely contributed to CTE in the particular soldier they studied.

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They're actually putting together a spectrum of brain injuries, and unsurprisingly CTE and PTSD show similar manifestations from physical damage to brain tissue down to predisposition for suicides. This is a study from 2011 if you have the time:

 

http://thejns.org/doi/full/10.3171/2011.9.FOCUS11178

 

What's interesting is that the estimation for soldiers in active duty during OEF and OIF had as high as 30% chance of suffering a traumatic brain injury, and that brain damage from repeated concussive activities occurring both in combat and training likely contributed to CTE in the particular soldier they studied.

cool

 

Where is the control data?

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Unless the NFL does something drastic, football will be dead in 30 years.

Certainly possible. Then again, boxing is more violent than football and it continues, albeit as a fringe sport.

 

One thing is for sure: if the NFL ever morphs into a "safe" sport devoid of violence and hitting, its popularity will greatly wane.

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I'm sure he was a bad dude to start with. Having his brain turn to oatmeal probably didn't help.

 

I am a transplant living in CT and a friend here grew up in the same town (Bristol, CT) as A. Hernandez and his father knows/knew the Hernandez family. He (father) said that Hernandez was a good kid until his father, who was a strong influence and role model, passed away. He got in with the wrong crowd after that and it went downhill from there.

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Certainly possible. Then again, boxing is more violent than football and it continues, albeit as a fringe sport.

 

One thing is for sure: if the NFL ever morphs into a "safe" sport devoid of violence and hitting, its popularity will greatly wane.

Is it a fringe sport?

 

Floyd Mayweather is richer than any football player

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Is it a fringe sport?

 

Floyd Mayweather is richer than any football player

Yes, boxing is most certainly a fringe sport, even if 3 or 4 guys in the world, at any point in time, make enormous money.

 

That's just a function of the economics of the sport, not it's overall popularity or widespread appeal.

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