DMN: Cowlishaw: Brutal day reminds us that NFL is more than fun and glamour

[jobberone]

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Tim Cowlishaw
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Published: 26 October 2013 05:19 PM
Updated: 27 October 2013 01:27 AM

I can’t give you the exact moment, but it was fueled by being in Philadelphia to watch Eagles third-string quarterback Matt Barkley chased by Cowboys defenders who had joined the team since it broke training camp in California.

It was that collection of players performing in place of so many injured colleagues in conjunction with the news that poured in all day Sunday.

Rams quarterback Sam Bradford out for the year … Packers tight end Jermichael Finley carried off with neck injury … Bucs running back Doug Martin possibly done for the season … Colts wide receiver Reggie Wayne’s streak of 189 consecutive games ends as he is done for the season.

It was a fantasy football nightmare, only the backs and receivers being maimed and injured were all too real.

That’s when I started to think about League of Denial, a book I’m now reading — which was made into a documentary by Frontline and aired on PBS. It details the NFL’s disturbing fight to keep the truth and the science about concussions the last 10 or 15 years under wraps.

And I thought, at the very least, this is a League of Carnage.

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[burmafrd]

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Tim Cowlishaw
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Published: 26 October 2013 05:19 PM
Updated: 27 October 2013 01:27 AM

I can’t give you the exact moment, but it was fueled by being in Philadelphia to watch Eagles third-string quarterback Matt Barkley chased by Cowboys defenders who had joined the team since it broke training camp in California.

It was that collection of players performing in place of so many injured colleagues in conjunction with the news that poured in all day Sunday.

Rams quarterback Sam Bradford out for the year … Packers tight end Jermichael Finley carried off with neck injury … Bucs running back Doug Martin possibly done for the season … Colts wide receiver Reggie Wayne’s streak of 189 consecutive games ends as he is done for the season.

It was a fantasy football nightmare, only the backs and receivers being maimed and injured were all too real.

That’s when I started to think about League of Denial, a book I’m now reading — which was made into a documentary by Frontline and aired on PBS. It details the NFL’s disturbing fight to keep the truth and the science about concussions the last 10 or 15 years under wraps.

And I thought, at the very least, this is a League of Carnage.

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that book was clearly a hatchet job. Not saying that there is not something to it all, but it was extremely one sided.

First, its only been in the last 5 years or so that a lot of the medical community is on board with the serious nature of sports concussions. So how was the NFL to know how serious it was 10 years or so ago?

second, when a book is so clearly pushing an agenda accepting everything it says as gospel speaks more of the laziness of the particular sports writer then anything else.

 

[jobberone]

that book was clearly a hatchet job. Not saying that there is not something to it all, but it was extremely one sided.

First, its only been in the last 5 years or so that a lot of the medical community is on board with the serious nature of sports concussions. So how was the NFL to know how serious it was 10 years or so ago?

second, when a book is so clearly pushing an agenda accepting everything it says as gospel speaks more of the laziness of the particular sports writer then anything else.

Oh yeah. I haven't read the book but I well acquainted with media spin. I don't know if the league has been trying to cover it up but they have a huge problem on their hands. You can make helmets that reduce the risk of a direct injury which is direct force to an area but you can't stop the brain from continuing its inertia/motion so you can still get a coup and/or countercoup injury.