Only a matter of time before public schools have to ban football. Helmets do not change physics
and brain morphology.

with the players acknowledging and accepting the risks as part of the job and the same of the schools.

Public schools will not be able to spend $, time, and effort on a product that
causes brain damage.

some parents that will agree to those types of waivers so that their kid can play.

right now they only find out once the players die .

it might be different if they are able to see there is already damage. and as shown with aaron hernandez the damage could be similar to what they see in people who have died at an old age.

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been using PCP (angel dust) for about a year.I wonder thst if in his casd this was a factor in the brain damage that they found

first because parents have to sign papers anyway to allow their kids to play on teams and second because such a test would be new and not something the schools would have had access to in the past.
Granted some schools might abandon football still but most of them would probably continue it.

The effects of CTE are in many ways cumulative and degenerative over a period of years. If a player demonstrates it in his late 20s or early 30s, then the college, high school, middle school & pee wee levels will claim innocence.

I quit because I was tired of being hurt. One game I had my knee taken out on a kickoff return by a player who hit me from behind (it was called clipping back then, I'm not sure what it's called now): my knee went in an L-shape when he hit me. I thought I was going to lose my stomach when I felt it. I believe the issues I am now having with the same knee are related to that hit.

Every year I watch the sport, I cringe more and more watching the hits. I don't see how they get up and do it again and again.
At my gym, there was a guy who had played college football. He made it to the pro's, but quit because of his knees.
When he was at the gym, he would hold the walls as he walked because his knees were so messed up.
It's a really nasty sport, I agree; and if it were to go away, I would understand.

But if you take all NFL players-active or retired-you are talking a universe of probably less than 5000-10,000 players and medical research money is being poured into early diagnoses. I can't help wondering if there aren't better places for this funding...

but I couldn't tell you off the top of my head how many concussions he has had, but by his early 20's he was really struggling with life.

not to mention car crashes

How about in Texas Junior collages, colleges and universities. Now bring all of that out nationwide. A very worthy subject of study indeed!

Sounds much more biased rather than cold as you include only pro-athletes in your set.

You fail to include the 1.1 million high school players, and 15,000 college players, in addition to middle school and pee-wee leagues. As per the CDC, An estimated 1.6 - 3.8 million sports and recreation-related concussions occur in the United States each year.

You also fail to account for the 1.5 million Americans who suffer from non-sports related traumatic brain injury every year.

owners were smart, they would set up some brain trauma foundation and start supporting it in a very big(PR) way. I mean thise owners have made more that a few nickles off the guys whose brains are scrambled.

I grew up in small-town Texas in 1970's. Football was sacred. "Pep rally" attendance was mandatory. Any guy playing any sport was required to play football. The football players were treated as gods.

I played for part of my freshman year. Coaches would call us sissies if we did not tackle head first and drive the other player into the ground. I refused to tackle with my head first and was ridiculed and did not get to play much. Even as a kid in the 1970's, the idea of repeatedly striking with my head seemed stupid. We knew the brain is 90% water by weight.

It is the same for kids today. Football players are idolized. That is so important to young men. The hypocrisy of saying smoking pot causes brain damage and repeated blows to the head teaches leadership and how to work as a team is the height of stupidity.

Youth playing football is foolish. Schools that promote an atmosphere that football teaches them to be men and makes girls adore them is evil. And it is routinely done, at least in North Texas.

He had repeated concussions as a hockey player and he has just been a bit of mess his entire adult life.

No football for my boy.

But many doctors will tell you that they dimply do not know enough about this in general population today. Football is the focus for obvious reasons but we still don't know why some players get it some don't and what other contributing factors may be at play, and I think that is an incredibly important thing to find out. There needs to be a lot more research and funding around this and not limiting the scope to a single sport.