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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.Goddell must be on panic after hearing the great mind of the teacher Bernard Pollard.
Guys like this talking and actually thinking they have a point is what makes parents not letting their kids play.
It is past time for the NFL to start investing some serious money in developing better protective gear.
and the best gear in the world can only less the impact a little bit.
That is correct fencer.
I do believe concussions happen when the brain inside the head crashes into the skull.
Just as in an auto accident, it's not the speed that kills, but the sudden stop.
The technology has been around for years.So you must cushion the impact to slow the change in direction. It can be done, it will just be very expensive.
So you must cushion the impact to slow the change in direction. It can be done, it will just be very expensive.
OR....just take off the helmet all together. Rugby is a contact sport, with issues for sure, but at least the try with training and rules.
I promise you, head to head contact will be reduced greatly with no protection for the head in the first place.
Or maybe remove the facemask and outlaw head to head contact, alltogether.
NFL Football's Concussion Problem: Take Helmets out of Hits? - TIME
Just a thought.
Such money is already being invested. Not necessarily by the NFL directly, but by the gear manufacturers themselves, not to mention what I am sure are countless amateur inventors looking to make some serious money by building a better mousetrap. We've actually seen some innovation over the past 10-15 years. But as I said in a previous post, the laws of physics dictate that only so much can be done. All the technology in the world can do nothing to alter those laws.It is past time for the NFL to start investing some serious money in developing better protective gear.
Problem with that is, despite paying lip service to taking guys with concussions out of games, the teams don't actually do that. You need look no further than the final month of this past season when Colt McCoy got drilled by James Harrison. About 70,000 people in the stadium, plus a couple million watching on TV, could tell McCoy was concussed. But what happened? He was back on the field a couple plays later and he arguably is being punished because his dad spoke out about that. And there have been no consequences for the Browns for letting him back out there.Identifying when a player has suffered a concussion and taking him off the field until he has recovered will likely reduce some of the long term effects.