Really ugly scene. The close up ok his hands right after the hit was stomach-turning. Hope he comes back from it without any long term impact.
Almost to a man they seem to love the game and the money too much to walk away. Steve Mongo McMichaels was a beast of a guy and now weighs 80 lbs. and can't move or go to the bathroom by himself. Wasting away to nothing with Lou Gehrig's disease which was brought on by football and he says he wouldn't change one second of it. I've seen several other interviews of players dying from the sport and it's the same refrain.
Chris Nowinski, Ph.D. on Twitter: "You guys should go to jail for letting him play 5 days after an obvious #concussion you covered up. If he dies from second-impact syndrome, I'm pushing form murder charges." / Twitter
Football will probably be close to dead in a generation
I personally think the dolphins are being wrongfully vilified in this situation. If the NFL neurologist say he’s fine, & he says he is fine, idk what else the team is expected to do. This is more of an NFL issue IMO than anything.
There is plenty of culpability to go around in this. The neurologist isn't making this determination in a vacuum, they're making it with players and coaches swearing the player is fine and good to go back into the game (anyone who has played football knows this game) and the player probably knowing what he needs to do to try to beat the tests. The second everyone saw Tua stumble like that, coaches, neurologist and everyone should have immediately called it and held him out.
I wish that were the case but I just don't see it. It maybe will become even more regionalized than it already is but it's an obsession/religion for parts of the country and that isn't changing. And as for those people who won't let their kids play, they'll still be watching others kids play.
They're supposed to keep their player out. He clearly wasn't fine.
This is very true. The high school I teach at has a bad football team. Like, loses games worse than UConn bad. They also routinely win state championships in other sports. Yet, football is king. The team is glorified with over the top extravagant pep rallies. Large numbers of people still go to the games. As long as football teams continue to be treated this way, kids will want to play, and parents will want to relive their former glory through their kids.
Agreed. It's different than boxing. Watching it has been engrained in the country. I'm not even a big fan, but I watch and do social stuff around some games. The game is certainly struggling in my town which was a pretty strong football power for a small town. The team has significantly less players, and less of the top athletes. They win because they play in a terrible division, but the whole town shows up for games. Soccer, lacrosse, and hockey teams regularly win state/county championships and nobody shows up until the final games.
