99% of dead players have CTE

[waldoputty]

wow, i was surprised by this, but according to CNN, 99% of players who donated their body have CTE.
ideally they can give it all to Goodell

 

[dallasfan4lizife]

I’m willing to bet CTE exists in a large portion of the population. Only football players have been analyzed for this however.

 

[canters]

This could prematurely end the NFL. The league is doing a good job of that now, but the medical stuff is looming. If I were in union leadership, a fully funded pool of cash from all 32 teams with no sunset aspect for compensation and treatment of retired players would be at the top of any new deal.

 

[NorthTexan95]

I’m willing to bet CTE exists in a large portion of the population. Only football players have been analyzed for this however.

Yes. We need more context if this stat is to mean anything.

 

[haleyrules]

Well, 99% ain't that bad!! Could have been worse. Now, we can bring back the hitting!! .

 

[PA Cowboy Fan]

Football is a dangerous violent sport. That's what made it so popular. Not really surprised by this. As for the NFL who cares about them?

 

[robjay04]

This could prematurely end the NFL. The league is doing a good job of that now, but the medical stuff is looming. If I were in union leadership, a fully funded pool of cash from all 32 teams with no sunset aspect for compensation and treatment of retired players would be at the top of any new deal.

If you said “end the NFL...as we know it” you may have a point but no way the NFL is going to end anytime soon. The reason why so many owners want Goodell back is because revenues are outstanding and it’s not like congress is going to end the sport...they would have to start with boxing, wrestling and UFC first. It’s optional to play football at any level.

 

[canters]

If you said “end the NFL...as we know it” you may have a point but no way the NFL is going to end anytime soon. The reason why so many owners want Goodell back is because revenues are outstanding and it’s not like congress is going to end the sport...they would have to start with boxing, wrestling and UFC first. It’s optional to play football at any level.

I can see parents forbidding their kids from playing youth ball, and then the lack of players would cycle through to colleges and then the NFL.

 

[PA Cowboy Fan]

I can see parents forbidding their kids from playing youth ball, and then the lack of players would cycle through to colleges and then the NFL.

I doubt it happens in my lifetime but eventually it will trickle down to the NFL. Who knows what the league will look like in 40 or 50 years.

 

[robjay04]

I can see parents forbidding their kids from playing youth ball, and then the lack of players would cycle through to colleges and then the NFL.

The talent may not be what it once was but how many decent high school players never get to play college ball? How many good college players never make it to the NFL? There will always be players lining up to make millions of dollars playing a kids game.

 

[Cowboys22]

I can see parents forbidding their kids from playing youth ball, and then the lack of players would cycle through to colleges and then the NFL.

This is already happening. There's a kid on my son's travel baseball team that quit football last season because he was targeted by the other team in the championship game and got a concussion. This kid is a rare special athlete. Best QB by a mile at his age in the state and now he only plays baseball and basketball. I suspect this is repeating all other the country.

 

[CATCH17]

This could prematurely end the NFL. The league is doing a good job of that now, but the medical stuff is looming. If I were in union leadership, a fully funded pool of cash from all 32 teams with no sunset aspect for compensation and treatment of retired players would be at the top of any new deal.

No chance.

 

[Hawkeye0202]

If you said “end the NFL...as we know it” you may have a point but no way the NFL is going to end anytime soon. The reason why so many owners want Goodell back is because revenues are outstanding and it’s not like congress is going to end the sport...they would have to start with boxing, wrestling and UFC first. It’s optional to play football at any level.

+1 ........Every player that played the game, did so knowing the risk and was compensated very well. Interesting you hear this mention at the collegiate level. Wonder why......

 

[Yakuza Rich]

Again, it's a faulty figure because the you're looking at a population of data where the family is giving the brains to the scientists because they suspected the player had CTE. So there's a sampling bias involved with that figure. However, it is surprising that many players have CTE out of a population that were suspected to have it.

The other issue here is that we still don't know what exactly causes CTE. For instance, female college soccer players are supposedly far more likely to suffer concussions than male NFL football players. And to my knowledge there has not been a CTE issue with former female college soccer players. There would still be some correlation between CTE and football, but it would be interesting to see exactly what in football is causing this while that is not going on with soccer.





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[Nightman]

For every one player with ALS there are 10,000 that got nothing but joy out of the game

We can't bubble wrap life and ignore all the great times and great careers that were made possible from football

 

[Longboysfan]

If you said “end the NFL...as we know it” you may have a point but no way the NFL is going to end anytime soon. The reason why so many owners want Goodell back is because revenues are outstanding and it’s not like congress is going to end the sport...they would have to start with boxing, wrestling and UFC first. It’s optional to play football at any level.

Revenues are so good because Jerry is the head of the group that negotiates the TV contracts.
Revenues are so good because other owners watched the Cowboys do side deals with other sponsors and they followed.

 

[AbeBeta]

wow, i was surprised by this, but according to CNN, 99% of players who donated their body have CTE.
ideally they can give it all to Goodell

99%?

How many players have donated bodies? That seems an awfully hard number to get to unless they have far more donations than I would think.

 

[AbeBeta]

I’m willing to bet CTE exists in a large portion of the population. Only football players have been analyzed for this however.

You know these are like actual scientists who understand basic stuff like control groups, right?

 

[Stryker44]

This could prematurely end the NFL. The league is doing a good job of that now, but the medical stuff is looming. If I were in union leadership, a fully funded pool of cash from all 32 teams with no sunset aspect for compensation and treatment of retired players would be at the top of any new deal.

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.

 

[Nightman]

99%?

How many players have donated bodies? That seems an awfully hard number to get to unless they have far more donations than I would think.

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