07-27-2017, 04:25 PM
I was talking with a friendly acquaintance of mine a few days ago and I asked him if he followed any football teams, college or pro. He grimaced and shook his head and said, "not with what I now know about CTE and what football does to your head."
Really? What we know now???
I started playing flag football in 7th grade, got kneed in the head and saw stars. A player dove at my knees, I flipped, saw stars when I landed on my head. Started tackle football in high school as a 13 year old. We didn't have a frosh team, so I played JV, broke my arm. Saw tons of instances where guys saw stars.Â
My senior year, we had a sadistic coach who played football at Humboldt State. He later went to work for SJ Unified School District where he was nicknamed after a Star Wars villain. He had any number of injury causing drills (and the obligatory no-water-during-two-a-days-in-August). He liked to have us in full pads all week, and wanted the wide receivers standing on opposite 40 yard lines, kitty corner from each other. He'd yell "Hike" and the two WRs would run a 10 yard down-and-in...essentially both WRs made the cut on the 50 yard line and ran directly at each other...not seeing each other because the QB had to deliver the ball. One day I caught the ball and ran head on into the toughest guy on our team. But my pass was way over my head, I went up for it, caught it, my knee was extended and caught our tough guy right on the helmet. He started throwing up, and couldn't really stand the rest of practice. That was on a Thursday. He played both ways on the Friday game the next day.
Separately, Mrs. Mick's best friend from high school dated a former 49er for about five years. He'd played over 100 games on the defensive line. I couldn't understand the guy's speech...at all.
I could give you fifty similar examples, as I'm sure the other former HS or college players on this board could. I find it simply stunning that so many people are just now coming to the conclusion that football is bad for your brain. Jeez
Really? What we know now???
I started playing flag football in 7th grade, got kneed in the head and saw stars. A player dove at my knees, I flipped, saw stars when I landed on my head. Started tackle football in high school as a 13 year old. We didn't have a frosh team, so I played JV, broke my arm. Saw tons of instances where guys saw stars.Â
My senior year, we had a sadistic coach who played football at Humboldt State. He later went to work for SJ Unified School District where he was nicknamed after a Star Wars villain. He had any number of injury causing drills (and the obligatory no-water-during-two-a-days-in-August). He liked to have us in full pads all week, and wanted the wide receivers standing on opposite 40 yard lines, kitty corner from each other. He'd yell "Hike" and the two WRs would run a 10 yard down-and-in...essentially both WRs made the cut on the 50 yard line and ran directly at each other...not seeing each other because the QB had to deliver the ball. One day I caught the ball and ran head on into the toughest guy on our team. But my pass was way over my head, I went up for it, caught it, my knee was extended and caught our tough guy right on the helmet. He started throwing up, and couldn't really stand the rest of practice. That was on a Thursday. He played both ways on the Friday game the next day.
Separately, Mrs. Mick's best friend from high school dated a former 49er for about five years. He'd played over 100 games on the defensive line. I couldn't understand the guy's speech...at all.
I could give you fifty similar examples, as I'm sure the other former HS or college players on this board could. I find it simply stunning that so many people are just now coming to the conclusion that football is bad for your brain. Jeez
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