how have they managed to make something as fun as football so fucking tedious? disgusting
Death to America
It could be made safer, perhaps even modified to make most head injuries and concussions rare enough to cease being an expectation, especially because it changed before…
But I don’t think at this point
I’m against contact sports in general because of TBIs. people think I’m a real stick in the mud, but it’s like, look at the olympics. You have swimming, running, throwing javelins, curling, ice skating, etc. Those tend to have a much lower instance of TBIs and CTE specifically. Professional wrestling is the worst and it’s not even a truly competitive sport. You got these performers on steroids slowly getting CTE from getting slammed on the mat in fixed kayfabe matches. They said Chris Benoit had the brain of an 80 year old in his autopsy (not to blame what he did entirely on the CTE, but you get my point).
I agree with you. It would be different if contact sports were only played by consenting adults who weren’t economically coerced into playing. Professional contact sports drive the interest in high school sports where children are getting traumatic brain injuries to entertain a bunch of adults.
High school hockey is big where I live and it’s crazy how violent it is. The size difference between players is more pronounced than it is in the NHL, so you have kids getting checked by someone a foot taller and 70 pounds heavier.
Kids getting permanent brain injuries so their fathers can relive their glory days.
