99% of dead players have CTE

Stryker44 said:

Never. We MUST FIGHT against this.

This are WARRIORS who are PAID BIG MONEY to FIGHT TO THE DEATH if necessary.

Code Of The Warrior means this sport should not be pussified for anyone at anytime.

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I nominate this for post of the year. Love it!

It is a complex issue. But the simple fact is the human head is not designed to get hit, our brains are basically floating in fluid attached to a spring. They also suspect that it isn't just major concussions either, but repeated lesser contact. The average lineman gets hit in the head probably 1200-1500 times during a season between games and practices. Even if they are not concussed imagine the force two 300 pound bodies create firing off the snap.
They are outlawing heading the ball in youth soccer because of it. It is affecting youth football too, and when you factor in the cost to outfit a youth football team compared to soccer or basketball it can't help but hurt participation.

The NFL is on a slippery slope for many reasons, but player safety is a joke. Zeke get 6 games for being accused of DV while Burfect targets a defenseless player and gets a game. Alonzo deliberately knocks out Flacco and doesn't even get suspended. Having teams play late games on the road or night games on Sunday and then have to play on Thursday is beyond unsafe. 4 or 5 preseason games.

Yes players get paid, but the average career is short and most players make under a million a year so it isn't like pro baseball and basketball. The majority of NFL players will never be a millionaire much less a multi-millionaire. For every Tony Romo retiring with 100 million in the bank and millions more coming in from TV, there are hundreds of players with little if anything in the bank that will be working at Home Depot once the league is done with them.

Nightman said:

I love how people ignore the millions that have played football and lived long, healthy and happy lives

The CTE study is way too premature and way too small a sample.......maybe everyone has latent CTE..... the 4 or 5 known cases of ALS seems like a lot but is it per capita

99% of the kids that play football won't play in the NFL.... I think the issue is a little overblown

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NFL players are having issues at a rate that is substantially hired than people who didn't play football. The fact that many players do not get CTE is evidence of nothing aside from your basic lack of understanding of what constitutes evidence

AbeBeta said:

NFL players are having issues at a rate that is substantially hired than people who didn't play football. The fact that many players do not get CTE is evidence of nothing aside from your basic lack of understanding of what constitutes evidence

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So tell me Mr Science.......what exactly does having CTE mean, how many hits does it take and what are the symptoms

The fact that MOST football players don't get CTE means the risks are very, very low

Nightman said:

So tell me Mr Science.......what exactly does having CTE mean, how many hits does it take and what are the symptoms

The fact that MOST football players don't get CTE means the risks are very, very low

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Well since they can't test for it yet and the only way it can be diagnosed is by dissecting the brain, there is no way of knowing if most players don't have it.

blindzebra said:

Well since they can't test for it yet and the only way it can be diagnosed is by dissecting the brain, there is no way of knowing if most players don't have it.

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We do know that if it is in most ex-players then it is harmless or latent

Nightman said:

We do know that if it is in most ex-players then it is harmless or latent

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Again, it is complex. Much could depend on what areas of the brain are affected, and clearly in most of the 99% it was in the parts of the brain controlling anger and impulse control based on what happened to them at the end.

blindzebra said:

Again, it is complex. Much could depend on what areas of the brain are affected, and clearly in most of the 99% it was in the parts of the brain controlling anger and impulse control based on what happened to them at the end.

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Maybe those guys already had those traits and that is what made them good at football

This just in... death causes CTE

This looks promising.
http://myfox8.com/2017/11/19/degene...ed-in-a-living-nfl-player-for-the-first-time/