Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy [CTE]

[hunt]

cte is a serious problem.  more & more parents are not allowing their kids to play football because of concussion risks. but where do you think this goes, longer term?  no more football?  or a version of football closer to flag than what we see now? 
or just minor rule/equipment changes since the nfl pretty much prints money? 

[ice grillin you]

it will never stop until kids stop playing it which may happen one day but not in any of our lifetimes

wouldnt be suprised tho if sometime relatively soon congress starts to regulate its safety

[hunt]

some youth leagues have already switched over to flag...plenty of tackle leagues still around though...the vast majority.

[MDS]

it will never stop until kids stop playing it which may happen one day but not in any of our lifetimes

wouldnt be suprised tho if sometime relatively soon congress starts to regulate its safety

its a multibillion dollar business it is not being regulated like that

amateur boxing they wear padding on their heads. football simply needs the equivalent of that. whether thats foam helmets or just playing flag until high school i dont know.

[ice grillin you]

it will never stop until kids stop playing it which may happen one day but not in any of our lifetimes

wouldnt be suprised tho if sometime relatively soon congress starts to regulate its safety

its a multibillion dollar business it is not being regulated like that

this little podunk entity called wall street gets regulated

[MDS]

wall streert doesnt own a day of the week

[ice grillin you]

correct

it owns 365 days

im not saying its 100% going to happen but the nfl isnt near big enough to escape regulation...its already regulated in a sense that sports betting is regulated and the nfl wouldnt close to what it is without betting....if the nfl was all powerful sports betting would have been legal decades ago

[Tomahawk]

How is the government going to regulate concussions? Make it illegal for players to get concussions and if they do, then they get fined?

[Diomedes]

What's going to happen is the game will slowly but inevitably become less and less entertaining as talent goes to other games.  We'll still have the NFL for our lifetimes, but we've seen it's peak already.  The decline is under way and in 25 years the NFL ain't going to be the dominant sports league in the United States.

[QB Eagles]

CTE has been found in players of football, hockey, boxing, MMA, soccer, baseball, wrestling, and BMX. It's very likely present in elevated numbers among skiers, snowboarders, cyclists, skateboarders -- basically anything that either can concuss you or repeatedly rattle you. This football thing is just the first wave, and the most studied. It's coming to all contact sports.

After that, people will start asking obvious questions about various non-sports occupations.

We need a ton of more research across a variety of activities. Even with the highly studied NFL brains, the sample sucks because it's not random. We also need good research on the "normal" prevalence of CTE in the general public. Then people can compare rates of injury and decide for themselves what level of risk they are willing to accept.

If your kid is tall, basketball hasn't been implicated yet. Otherwise there's always tennis and golf.

[PhillyPhreak54]

Good post and I agree.

I've had 6 concussions and god knows how many times my "bell was rung" and I saw stars or was woozy for a bit.

Twice with my concussions I had really bad symptoms. One from football caused me to stutter and have altered speech to several weeks.

Sometimes I wonder if those 6 and the other dings were enough to develop it.

[QB Eagles]

I don't want to alarm you, but CTE has been definitively linked to dementia, suicide, and making message board posts demonstrating irrational affection toward practice squad-level running backs.

[Tomahawk]

That also explains the note he sent Wentz

[PhillyPhreak54]

Oh farg!

Nice knowing you guys.

[Rome]

The head knocks would definitely explain the irrational "5" love.