The NFL and Head Injuries
1-liner, NFL, Youth Sports September 30th. 2009, 6:00pmNFL: “A study commissioned by the National Football League reports that Alzheimer’s disease or similar memory-related diseases appear to have been diagnosed in the league’s former players vastly more often than in the national population — including a rate of 19 times the normal rate for men ages 30 through 49.” After reading this, let us know if you’d have any qualms about your kid playing high school football. [NYT]
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September 30th, 2009 at 6:09 PM
I am a football diehard, but this fear along with screwing up my knee combined with how I was marginally good for a high school player is why I quit high school football.
September 30th, 2009 at 6:10 PM
Long snapper or kicker. Sure.
Otherwise, he’s going to be a baseball player and fucking study.
September 30th, 2009 at 6:13 PM
I would have zero qualms about my kids playing high school football. The study compared those symptoms between NFL players and the general public. I don’t want to cut them short of their dreams but I don’t think my kids are going to be suiting up in the NFL.
September 30th, 2009 at 6:13 PM
My kids, if I have any, will never play a down of organized football if I can help it. Of course, I’ve held that view for 5 years now, so nothing new. Basketball, soccer, tennis, golf…not baseball because I find it utterly boring.
September 30th, 2009 at 6:14 PM
My kid will play baseball, unless he is a pitcher. Then in no way will he play baseball. I still can’t lift weights because I was a fucking high school workhorse.
September 30th, 2009 at 6:16 PM
You raising Europeans?
September 30th, 2009 at 6:17 PM
well shit im gonna wrap my kid up in bubble wrap(because i want him and i to have fun while protecting him)and shelter him from anything that might get him hurt.
September 30th, 2009 at 6:18 PM
forgot the “/merikan” tag
September 30th, 2009 at 6:18 PM
I’ll tell you one thing my kids won’t be…bloggers. I don’t have a basement! Zing!
September 30th, 2009 at 6:18 PM
No, that’s what I played, along with basketball. Wish I’d played golf, I’d been pretty good if I’d started early enough. At least good enough to be on the golf team at my highschool…which would’ve been awesome because the assistant headmaster was the coach and let his players get away with bloody murder.
September 30th, 2009 at 6:19 PM
let the kid play football, because football in high school isn’t as hard hitting. Baseball they don’t teach you how to throw properly, arm angles and deliveries that you need to put less stress on your arm. I’m example A.
September 30th, 2009 at 6:20 PM
my kid will play whatever sport he wants. but he will be in at least one sport.
September 30th, 2009 at 6:20 PM
agreed tallguy.
On a slightly happier note, doritos brought back their smoking cheddar bbq chips…onlyin the top five best potato chip EVAR.
September 30th, 2009 at 6:21 PM
Personally, I want my son to play Girls field hockey. That seems pretty safe, at least for a guy.
September 30th, 2009 at 6:21 PM
My high school sucked at everything except for Lacrosse. We’re apparently known around the US. I couldn’t care less.
September 30th, 2009 at 6:22 PM
my kid may get brain damaged but one thing they wont be is fat.
September 30th, 2009 at 6:23 PM
@mrejr
fucking word. i was good at baseball, average at basketball, and fucking terrible at football but i played all of them. positives seemed to outweigh the negatives.
September 30th, 2009 at 6:24 PM
fixed.
September 30th, 2009 at 6:24 PM
That’s pretty impressive, considering it’s not a potato chip.
/doritos are disgusting
September 30th, 2009 at 6:25 PM
i would rather my kids be gay than fat.
September 30th, 2009 at 6:26 PM
Why do they still make cool ranch doritos? Who buys that shit?
/Nacho style beats faces
//Salt and Pepper chips are still the best
September 30th, 2009 at 6:27 PM
What about fat and gay? And not just slightly gay, but “Oh my God here they come buzzing in like a hummingbird flaming” gay?
September 30th, 2009 at 6:27 PM
Fuck yeah!
September 30th, 2009 at 6:29 PM
Sea salt and vinegar > you
September 30th, 2009 at 6:30 PM
Salt and Pepper chips rape Sea Salt and Vinegar chips.
September 30th, 2009 at 6:30 PM
i would go get some milk and never comeback. because if they are fat and gay it is obviously their mother’s fault
September 30th, 2009 at 6:32 PM
“Daddy left to go get Cigarettes. That was about seven years ago. Must be pretty rare cigarettes.”
September 30th, 2009 at 6:34 PM
corn, potato, w/e…i eat like a five year old.
September 30th, 2009 at 6:38 PM
anybody here live in baltimore? you can drop me an email? looking to set something up, need bar advice.
September 30th, 2009 at 6:40 PM
Saturn out of business.
September 30th, 2009 at 7:05 PM
I played high school and (Canadian) university football. No concussions but my knees and my shoulders/neck swear at me every day for it. I probably wouldn’t do it again if I had a chance to do it all over.
I’d never tell my kid that he can’t play something but, thankfully, he’s so heavily into hockey that it’s not an issue. What could possibly go wrong playing hockey?
/sucker for punishment gene is apparently hereditary
September 30th, 2009 at 7:06 PM
Daughter plays volleyball, trying out for cheerleader next year. Played basetball in elementary(not very well).
oldest son plays freshman football, runs track, and plays B-ball
youngest son plays football, basketball, baseball and anything else he wants to play.
Sure, I feel badly for the NFL players who suffer brain injuries. But to keep your kids from playing any sport because you’re afraid isn’t the answer. Better equipment and better doctors who won’t send a player out there after his 10th concussion ARE needed.
September 30th, 2009 at 7:07 PM
basketball*
softball, too. Man, you have no idea how boring 4th grade softball is…