mikeak":2o2l6myv said:
Link didn't work for me so here it is for anyone else with that issue:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/07/magaz ... chine.html
My only objection to "it happens a lot" is in which one of those situations is it designed so that it happens continuously to the same people?
Which car is designed to give you concussions over and over again? Which construction site allows for it?
And as it relates to people in employement that gets them - when it impacts their ability to work they can get workers compensation.
The fact that the NFL tried to hide these issues is the biggest thing but they settled on that. Today people know what they are getting into, but is it fair to say that for kids - their parents puts them into the sport and the kids don't really have a voice in this. Parents make all kinds of decisions for their kids. I do however expect that we will see a large number of middle class parents not allow their kids to play football (at least not until later in life). It will be a sport that is more and more made up of lower class kids as a way to a better life (that has already been going on for awhile but I think the concussion issue will push this even further).
Workers compensation is a joke! I know, I got screwed by it. Even when I was on it, I might as well have been on welfare and social security. The insurance companies that pay out for Workers compensation have huge legal teams and I've watched friends and strangers get screwed every time because it doesn't go through a court of law, but a panel, with former Worker Compensation employees on them. So don't bring up that argument.
Football isn't designed to cause concussions, it's a by product of a rough game. Yet players like Edelman lie about a concussion in a game to keep on playing.
And what about the college football game? High School? We don't hear squat about them. Why? Because there's no money in it for reporters.
This article has good spots and bad spots, especially where he complains about Roger Goodell trying to screw over Tom Brady. He's an admitted Patriot fan, but there was zero objectivity in those statements.
Then he makes this bonehead statement: "And yet the number of concussions throughout the league is actually up this season."
Gee, then that must mean that the number of concussions was down 10 years ago.
Apparently they number of reported concussions this year has nothing to do with the increased focus on concussions, doctors on the sidelines, and now adding more because Edelman didn't come out of the Superbowl when he got concussed.
I saw a video interview of Edelman and the reporter said "You got clocked pretty hard here by Chancellor and looked wobbly, didn't you get a concussoin there?"
Edelman smile and asks "What's a concussion?"
My orthopedic surgeon worked for the Dallas Cowboys in the 90s as an intern, and he said every time Troy Aikman walked in the locker room and said "These lights seem awfully bright," they rushed him in to get an MRI. So they've been addressing concussions for a while now, but just for QBs.
Don't get me wrong, I'm glad they've increased the focus on Concussions, but let's "spread the wealth" here. Let's not act like it's all NFL and only NFL just because they have the deepest pockets, and big corporations and rich people make easy targets. And that's what many reporters do, it's lazy and asinine. They need to broaden the picture.