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Watch the clip and judge for yourself.  I don't think it's absurd.  I know it's possible to mount an attack going full speed and falling to the ground because I've seen it done many times in wrestling and martial arts competition.  I have my opinion and others have theirs.  Let's all agree to hope for Oscar's speedy recovery.

I did, Marty. I always appreciate your passion.  And I should not have used “absurd”.  Fot that, I apologize.  But I disagree strongly that there was intent.  And it’s a serious charge to make.

In any event, we certainly all agree on our best wishes to Oscar.

I’m mildly on the Marty side of this debate. I see no specific intent to hit Oscar in the head. But, instead, I see intentional controlled aggression which is using the arm with intent to make aggressive contact without in the moment understanding that he was hitting someone’s head and not, say, a shoulder. I don’t doubt that he would not have behaved this way if he knew that he was going to drive Oscar’s head into the floor. But the reality is that a lot of players play close enough to the line that these kinds of injuries are foreseeable consequences. Best wishes to Oscar. I’ve had some fairly bad sports concussions. Sometimes the way back to feeling normal is longer than you hope for.

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Watch the clip and judge for yourself.  I don't think it's absurd.  I know it's possible to mount an attack going full speed and falling to the ground because I've seen it done many times in wrestling and martial arts competition.  I have my opinion and others have theirs.  Let's all agree to hope for Oscar's speedy recovery.

I did, Marty. I always appreciate your passion.  And I should not have used “absurd”.  Fot that, I apologize.  But I disagree strongly that there was intent.  And it’s a serious charge to make.

In any event, we certainly all agree on our best wishes to Oscar.

I’m mildly on the Marty side of this debate. I see no specific intent to hit Oscar in the head. But, instead, I see intentional controlled aggression which is using the arm with intent to make aggressive contact without in the moment understanding that he was hitting someone’s head and not, say, a shoulder. I don’t doubt that he would not have behaved this way if he knew that he was going to drive Oscar’s head into the floor. But the reality is that a lot of players play close enough to the line that these kinds of injuries are foreseeable consequences. Best wishes to Oscar. I’ve had some fairly bad sports concussions. Sometimes the way back to feeling normal is longer than you hope for.