Yeah, especially since boxing still exists, albeit far from its mainstream glory days.
― Do the Leee Roll! (Leee), Tuesday, 30 May 2017 17:53 (six years ago) link
Not only does boxing still exist, MMA/UFC has been more-or-less mainstreamed and it's 10x as brutal.
― Old Lynch's Sex Paragraph (Phil D.), Tuesday, 30 May 2017 18:05 (six years ago) link
I wonder if America could ever get on board with flag football as a spectator sport. obviously certain types of guys would no longer have careers but the NFL is becoming more of a passing league every year anyway and you'd still be able to preserve most of the fun of that part of the game (ie. Beckham catches, Aaron Rodgers bombs).
― evol j, Tuesday, 30 May 2017 18:08 (six years ago) link
Insensitivity to *other people* being brutalized is a known human trait.
― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, 30 May 2017 18:24 (six years ago) link
Also unfortunate that to stimulate his brain he had to get into coaching... football... to kids, including his own. Have a lot of sympathy for the guy, but by introducing kids to football as it is today, this will only continue.
yeah this was kinda my thought too. ultimately this always seems to be the case doesn't it? love for football trumps everything.
also I was wondering - does this sort of therapy produce long-term results or does it just delay the inevitable? would be great if they could actually get to stopping the progression or reversing the damage but I'm a little skeptical if that's possible.
― frogbs, Tuesday, 30 May 2017 18:41 (six years ago) link
Man, these comments from Warren Sapp will stick with you https://t.co/LjAgNxGius pic.twitter.com/fHMfM25sJY— Lachlan Markay (@lachlan) June 21, 2017
― down that brown path (Spottie), Wednesday, 21 June 2017 16:59 (six years ago) link
fuckin sad
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Wednesday, 21 June 2017 18:51 (six years ago) link
click through and watch the video, though, because Warren Sapp is still wonderful
― El Tomboto, Friday, 23 June 2017 03:12 (six years ago) link
https://www.sbnation.com/a/17776-football
― Old Neon, Friday, 7 July 2017 03:32 (six years ago) link
yeah, i loved that
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Friday, 7 July 2017 03:34 (six years ago) link
Tim Tebow CFL Chronicles was better imho
Sophomore jinx
― El Tomboto, Friday, 7 July 2017 04:16 (six years ago) link
Tom Cotton is the next President.
― Jeff, Friday, 7 July 2017 09:41 (six years ago) link
big fan of jon bois, glad we have at least one avant garde sportswriter out there
― ciderpress, Friday, 7 July 2017 13:34 (six years ago) link
yeah this is bar none the strangest football article I've ever read
― frogbs, Friday, 7 July 2017 13:40 (six years ago) link
TTCFLC is more traditional, linear, first person storytelling; this new one feels like interactive fiction on rails to me, if that makes any sense
https://www.sbnation.com/2014/8/18/5998715/the-tim-tebow-cfl-chronicles
― El Tomboto, Friday, 7 July 2017 15:40 (six years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/07/25/sports/football/nfl-cte.html
"A neuropathologist has examined the brains of 111 N.F.L. players — and 110 were found to have C.T.E., the degenerative disease linked to repeated blows to the head."
― Old Lynch's Sex Paragraph (Phil D.), Tuesday, 25 July 2017 15:29 (six years ago) link
So the other guy was a kicker I assume?
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 25 July 2017 15:31 (six years ago) link
^ post of the day
― ein Sexmonster (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 25 July 2017 15:31 (six years ago) link
maybe one of Brett Favre's backups
― frogbs, Tuesday, 25 July 2017 15:32 (six years ago) link
Presumably, yeah. The 100 include one punter and one placekicker. 44 linemen, 7 QBs.
― Old Lynch's Sex Paragraph (Phil D.), Tuesday, 25 July 2017 15:33 (six years ago) link
*110
http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/20170808/baltimore-ravens-offensive-lineman-john-urschel-retires-abruptly
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 27 July 2017 15:52 (six years ago) link
must have been a really tough choice, luckily it sounds like he has plenty to fall back on.
In January, Urschel told HBO's "Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel" that his passion for playing football outweighs the risks of suffering head trauma.
― Spottie, Thursday, 27 July 2017 17:21 (six years ago) link
http://deadspin.com/super-bowl-winning-qb-jim-plunkett-my-life-sucks-1797547445
tbf, i suspect a lot of 69-year-olds need a painkiller to play golf. life expectancy for american men was 64.4 when plunkett was born
― mookieproof, Friday, 4 August 2017 20:32 (six years ago) link
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/highschools/the-leading-edge-of-a-much-larger-iceberg-new-jersey-high-school-disbands-football-team/2017/08/22/e13b6516-836e-11e7-82a4-920da1aeb507_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-more-top-stories-2_ams-newjersey500am-1%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.702efbabf4cc
― .oO (silby), Wednesday, 23 August 2017 15:30 (six years ago) link
New Jersey, eh? When the trend reaches high schools in Texas, we will know that American football is in its final death throes.
― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 23 August 2017 23:26 (six years ago) link
FWIW, the stat/graph with the article indicates that Texas's percentage change is barely there (as opposed to growing or dropping notably).
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 23 August 2017 23:30 (six years ago) link
― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, August 23, 2017 4:26 PM (forty minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Sure, but I think the map lends at least some support to the idea that youth football is becoming a more regional thing, as predicted upthread
― .oO (silby), Thursday, 24 August 2017 00:07 (six years ago) link
Obviously a wealthy, heavily-Asian- and Indian-American town in New Jersey isn't home to your median high school football team though.
― .oO (silby), Thursday, 24 August 2017 00:09 (six years ago) link
it's not, but every trend begins with outliers
hang on while I think of another pithy post that is yet more obvious and dumb
― Tarly Noise (El Tomboto), Thursday, 24 August 2017 00:26 (six years ago) link
"we must impeach to save the union"
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Thursday, 24 August 2017 15:47 (six years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/30/sports/espn-ed-cunningham-football-concussions.html
“We come back from the break and that guy with the broken leg is gone, and it’s just third-and-8”
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Thursday, 31 August 2017 00:10 (six years ago) link
And changes to substantially soften the exterior of football helmets, into something more like memory foam, to reduce the weight and its utility as a weapon.
I used to half-joke they should go back to leather helmets. Personally, at this point, I'd be fine with reduced contact. Body sensors, something closer to flag football. Bigger emphasis on speed and offense, but a knee down ends a play. More pushing; less hitting.
― beard papa, Thursday, 31 August 2017 15:38 (six years ago) link
can a britisher tell me if rugby cats have the same concussion issues? the "less padding, less contact" argument is likely to be brought up more seriously again in the next year or two.
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Thursday, 31 August 2017 15:43 (six years ago) link
this is off topic but I sort of love this quote from Cunningham's former broadcast partner in that nyt article
“The sport is at a crossroads. I love football — college football, pro football, any kind of football. It’s a wonderful sport. But now that I realize what it can do to people, that it can turn 40-, 50-year-old men into walking vegetables, how do you stay silent? Ed was in the vanguard of this. I give him all the credit in the world. And I’m going to be outspoken on it, in part because he led me to that drinking hole.”
vanguard of walking vegetables at a crossroads - to the drinking hole!
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 31 August 2017 17:32 (six years ago) link
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Thursday, 31 August 2017 15:43 (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
It's becoming more and more of a thing, along with discussion of spinal/neck injuries caused in fucks, scrums
― passé aggresif (darraghmac), Thursday, 31 August 2017 17:36 (six years ago) link
Uh..rucks
forkslysses, I think the argument goes more like "less padding, less velocity;" the amount of contact is probably about the same I think. Rugby union (here and elsewhere) has also been explicitly and openly concerned about concussion protocols & proper tackling technique for much, much longer than American football.
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 31 August 2017 17:37 (six years ago) link
addressing / minimizing neck injuries in scrums has been an issue in rugby for like, decades, I thought
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 31 August 2017 17:38 (six years ago) link
Seems to be more direct action advocated recently, partic at underage level etc
― passé aggresif (darraghmac), Thursday, 31 August 2017 17:39 (six years ago) link
when in reference to "fucks, scrums", i certainly hope so!
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Thursday, 31 August 2017 18:00 (six years ago) link
Ah the nineties
― passé aggresif (darraghmac), Thursday, 31 August 2017 18:24 (six years ago) link
Baez: #AaronHernandez had one of the most severe cases of CTE that BU researchers had seen for someone his age.— Bob McGovern (@BobMcGovernJr) September 21, 2017
― mookieproof, Thursday, 21 September 2017 20:27 (six years ago) link
looking forward to hearing the NFL's awesome plans to move a team to London when they can't even get butts in seats in Los Angeles
― officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries), Thursday, 21 September 2017 20:58 (six years ago) link
wasn't there a thing about how OJ Simpson was showing a lot of symptoms of cognitive decline and dementia before the murders?
― frogbs, Thursday, 21 September 2017 20:58 (six years ago) link
really not eager for all the shitty things these guys have done to be pinned on their CTE
― na (NA), Thursday, 21 September 2017 21:03 (six years ago) link
indeed
― mookieproof, Thursday, 21 September 2017 21:06 (six years ago) link
well they are also assholes of course but the CTE contributes
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 21 September 2017 21:09 (six years ago) link
does it
― na (NA), Thursday, 21 September 2017 21:10 (six years ago) link
Doesn't excuse him, but does having severe brain damage cause people to make bad decisions? Probably.
― Moodles, Thursday, 21 September 2017 21:12 (six years ago) link