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And that's why I haven't been AS sympathetic as I perhaps should be with the former players, because I can see a lot of people taking the paycheck anyway. But what got me most fired up thinking about it was the susceptibility to even more serious injury after the initial concussion.Sigh....You do have a point. From memory I can tell you when my concussions took place by age
5th Grade Pop Warner: I was on defense and I got kicked in the head
6th Grade Hockey: slipped and head hit the goal post
8th Grade Basketball: dove for a ball and my head hit the other kids head
11th Grade Baseaball & sand lot football; 90mph fastball to the head. (kid got drafted by the White Sox) and got leveled on a tackle and hit my head on a rock.
College: Fight/baseball bat (he got his later)
Car accident a few years ago.
With that said I'm 44 and feel great. No violence issues or moody behavior and believe me- with all the discussion about CTE I have asked.
Thats me personally. Would my folks/me do things differently knowing what we know now?
Would I sue? No. I don't think I have a case really.
Sports was a huge part of my social life and my identity as a person back then. Not sure what else I would do?
I would still have played sports without a doubt knowing what I know now, but with that added information we would all have been prevented from exposure to the potential (or I'm sure in a lot of cases actual) more serious injuries that came from the collisions/hits subsequent to the concussion.