87 concussions last year?

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  • September 27, 2015 at 8:52 am #31208
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    That seems awfully low to me. I would think
    there were a lot more than that.

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    http://thinkprogress.org/sports/2015/09/21/3703665/the-human-toll-of-2-weeks-of-nfl-football/

    Just two weeks into the current season, about 15 percent of all NFL football players have already officially suffered an injury.

    According to official statistics released by the NFL, 234 players were dealing with various kinds of injuries heading into the the second week of play. This includes 12 concussions, two neck injuries, and one other unspecified injury to the head. There were also 40 knee injuries.

    During the second week of play, another 16 players suffered injuries so severe that they needed to be removed from the game. (More injuries will be identified as teams prepare their Week 3 injury reports.) Bills safety Aaron Williams suffered a neck injury and was taken off the field via ambulance.

    The rate of injuries this year is not out of the ordinary for the NFL. In the 2013-14 season there were more than 1,300 injuries, including 87 concussions, over the course of play. (Although the rate through Week 2 appears greater than this, it also includes injuries that have been sustained during the pre-season.)

    The NFL implemented a number of changes this year that were intended to reduce the number of injuries. In March, NFL owners agreed to eliminate “all chop blocks and peel blocks by running backs outside the tackle box,” ban “players from pushing teammates at the line of scrimmage in order to block punts” and expand “defenseless-player protection to include interception returns.” None of these arcane changes have had any noticeable impact on the total number of injuries thus far. The NFL claims that previous rule changes have reduced the number of concussions sustained by NFL players.

    A study released last Friday of 91 deceased NFL players found 87 tested positive for chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CPE), a brain disease linked to repetitive brain trauma.
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    September 27, 2015 at 8:59 am #31210
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    You know that’s something I pay attention to now when I’m watching the games and I never used to notice it before. When I see head-to head contact or a guy’s head bounce on the ground I cringe a bit. That’s the first thing I think of–concussion. McNown took a horrible spinning hit against the Jets. I can’t believe he’s coming back this week already.

    A guy I work with had his grandson carted off the field on Friday at a high school game. His son texted him that the grandson would miss at least two weeks. The guy I work with texted his son back that the grandson should instead maybe miss the whole season? People are much more aware of this at the lower levels now. I wonder how this will affect what we see twenty years from now–or even 10.

    At some point I see some sort of change but how much can you change the game before it becomes touch football?

    And would we still watch?

    "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. " Philip K. Dick

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