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"Bad Brains" NFL's Concussion Crisis; lawsuits, players signing off rights, more stats
Topic Started: Feb 2 2013, 12:17 PM (859 Views)
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Hockey with its gratuitous fights, completely ungoverned by the rules of the game and completely irrelevant to the game's outcome, and yet still allowed by the officials, is really weird.

It's part of the game. If you grow up with it it isn't weird at all.

If you grow up with brothers it's the most natural thing in the world.
True, dat. There was hardly a summer's day when there wasnt at last one fistfight in my neighborhood, and sometimes more than one. It just happened. Sometimes sticks, rocks and croquet mallets were involved.

Then I had two older brothers and no willingness to back down, which meant I fought at home too, although it wasn't usually fistfights but wrestling to inflict pain. Even if I was going to lose I determined to inflict as much damage as possible. Once I got better and more determined my brothers learned that going after me was not in their best interests. I will not go into details. :lol2:

The human condition - we are violent, territorial mammals.
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Feb 2 2013, 08:35 PM
Jolly:
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No, it's not a perfect game. It is a worthwhile game

But we knew that going in, didn't we?...

"Not perfect" is unspeakably inadequate to describe a sport in which a significant percent of players suffer major brain damage as a result of repetitive concussion syndrome.

Moreover, one which endangers High School and younger players even more than adult players (previously cited with reference). And the helmets have been proven to make their situation not less but more dangerous (also cited).

"NOT PERFECT"!? Let's see what the doctors and the courts say from here on out, Jolly. Remember this exchange. I say it's going to be as crystal clear as cigarettes and lung disease, in terms of danger.
And hidden mostly for the same reasons.
How much money is in it.

The "glory" and indulgence of violenct impulses, however much they count, are secondary - only tolerated because of the lies and propaganda (paid for by the $$).

Oh, that's right. Joe Pa and the Penn State football program pissed in your wheaties. Nearly forgot.
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No, it's not a perfect game. It is a worthwhile game

But we knew that going in, didn't we?...

"Not perfect" is unspeakably inadequate to describe a sport in which a significant percent of players suffer major brain damage as a result of repetitive concussion syndrome.

Moreover, one which endangers High School and younger players even more than adult players (previously cited with reference). And the helmets have been proven to make their situation not less but more dangerous (also cited).

"NOT PERFECT"!? Let's see what the doctors and the courts say from here on out, Jolly. Remember this exchange. I say it's going to be as crystal clear as cigarettes and lung disease, in terms of danger.
And hidden mostly for the same reasons.
How much money is in it.

The "glory" and indulgence of violenct impulses, however much they count, are secondary - only tolerated because of the lies and propaganda (paid for by the $$).

Print this one out and tack it on your wall:

Football ain't going away. Not at the high school level, not at the collegiate level and not at the pro level.

It is a sport of controlled violence and that violence cannot be taken out of the sport.

Injuries can be addressed through equipment changes and some rule changes...after all, at one time the NCAA measured a good year in college football if there was only one or two deaths on the field. At the end of the day, however, it is what it is.
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It's a dying sport anyway. If owners and players can't agree on a way to play that makes economic sense to both, it makes sense to neither.
I disagree, at least in Canada.

Better than the NHL in regular season play most nights. Hockey is at no risk of going away in Canada, just like baseball isn't going away in the US. It's a culture thing.

Yes, hockey is like that in Boston too. The NHL is great but hockey is a neighborhood thing and a family thing too. We made ice rinks in our back yards in the winter and played on the ponds and played in the street all summer.

We didn't have a pull the sweater over the head fight in every game but there was always a wrestling match going on. And there wasn't much padding, usually maybe gloves and shin guards.

Boys like to hit each other, that's going to happen with or without any NFL or NHL.
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Oh, that's right. Joe Pa and the Penn State football program pissed in your wheaties. Nearly forgot.
WHAT ? "Pissed in my Wheaties?"

Is that what you call:

a) Countless children's having been raped for decades, as enabled by the Football Program's empowerment of Sandusky.
and Paterno's persuasion of key PSU leaders to look the other way
b) The Football Program's having used undue influence over the law enforcement program, so that players breaking the law weren't properly punished like "ordinary" students.
c) countless students having been injured by players, drunk or not, without prosecution (tremendous documentation through the PSU student affairs office and plenty of those harmed, even including a Philadelphia Police sergeant's son).
d) Second Mile personnel personally harming one of my son's and countless other young children, as enabled by the Football Program's deification?
e) The Second Mile's having embezzled funds raised by the charity by illegitimate appropriation - again re enablement.
f) the University's ("gown") having lost countless millions in fines, lost revenues, legal fees and payments to damaged children
g) The Uni's and area's , "town", having lost millions in depreciated housing, education, and football revenues affecting every aspect of local life and university programming
h) students and locals, having lost tremendously in their sense of self-respect, pride in their degree and idolization of Paterno.

Just for starters.

Your empathy is appreciated - NOT. Tell that to the nation which has observed the crucifixion of the university and locals, to "teach a lesson" to a limited cabal of guilty leadership who exploited the power appropriated from the football program.
And also to signal a warning to football programs nation-wide, which were similarly morally defective. .
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Oh please, Amanda. You latched on to the Penn Statestory with the glee and determination of a hound dog finding a T-Bone. You were bringing up a lot of unsubstantiated stories about character issues independant of the whole Sandusky business. I particularly remember a story of a young piano prodigy that has his hand broke by members of the football team that not only couldn't be substantiated but had people shaking their head in incredulity. You have shown a zeal in attacking professional and collegiate foootball far beyond somebody have some reasonable concerns over documented dangers to and from the game. Your "concern" has bordered on personal vendetta.
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I particularly remember a story of a young piano prodigy that has his hand broke by members of the football team that not only couldn't be substantiated but had people shaking their head in incredulity. You have shown a zeal in attacking professional and collegiate foootball far beyond somebody have some reasonable concerns over documented dangers to and from the game. Your "concern" has bordered on personal vendetta.
A tragedy which happened. If we were still involved with the local piano program, I would ask others who remembered it too. However, not to spend one more momentito to satisfy someone with your lack of moral judgment.
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As for the legalities of these cases against the NFL, I've been hearing that they likely won't be going very far as there is no way to substantiate whether these problems have resulted from injuries during their professional careers or from their college/high school days. The real concern is whether there was a coverup, and evidence for a coordinated coverup is pretty scarce, but it's not keeping people from repeating the allegation as a fact. The real danger is publicity and not monetary.
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The article I remember from the Centre Daily Times is only available in their archives and I don’t care to pay $20 to belong to their search engine. It occurred, as it turns out, in 2001.

I was able to find references today apparently only because the victim was finally successful in suing one of the players for $900,000 a few years ago. Using the victim’s name (Sandt) I was able to find a small item referring to the incident, saying most of the key facts I recalled in my online mention here, namely:

That he was a pianist, unable to play because of the serious injuries to his hands, as rendered by drunk football players.
That they showed up demanding entrance to a frat party, because “we’re football. Let us in” and beating their chests like gorillas.

That his hands were damaged by them, in a window.

What’s missing in this snippet, is that he wasn’t even able to recover medical expenses apart from losing his music career. Also, they don’t say “drunk” or quote the victim in several of his very sad comments, about how he felt at losing his career, his family’s grief (and rage at the players getting off), his career plans and his deep upset at not even having his injuries validated.

If you want to pay the money to retrieve my article, go ahead. I’ve spent enough on this.

If you have a shred of decency, you will apologize. Exactly why you think I would have invented this, I can’t imagine. Nor have I invented anything I wrote anywhere about what’s gone on here, with my family, the organization’s I’ve protested or anything else. How about reading the anecdote concerning my son and going on for football in my first post?

How would you like that if it were your son? Please note, as alluded he had had prior head injuries which made him especially vulnerable to football concussions.

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A former musician who can no longer move his fingers individually because of an attack at a fraternity party testified Monday against the two Penn State football players he maintains are responsible.

Jude Sandt, 23, stared at defendants Thurgood "T.C." Cosby, 19, and Robert "R.J." Luke, 22, and accused them of the attack at Phi Kappa Psi fraternity last July that severed the tendons in his hands.

"When you're involved in something like that, their faces don't leave your mind. Even now, I can see them every day," Sandt testified in the aggravated ***ault trial.

Sandt testified he was hit, then picked up and thrown headfirst through a window, and got stuck in the window.

"I was still getting punched. I was stuck," he said.

Sandt, who played clarinet and piano, also demonstrated that despite surgery and several hours of therapy each day, he cannot move his fingers individually.

A defense lawyer asked Sandt why he didn't identify Luke from his hospital bed when an officer showed him football players' photos in a program guide.

"I was also directly out of surgery," Sandt snapped back. " ... I don't want to see anyone go to jail for something they didn't do. I know 100 percent that they did it or else I wouldn't be here today."

Phi Kappa Psi member Colin Simithraaratchy testified that Luke was "extremely threatening" when he wasn't allowed into the house immediately. He testified that Luke repeatedly said, "We're football; let us in."

Simithraaratchy said after the altercation, Luke was "parading" on the front lawn, beating his chest and flexing his arms.

"He was saying, `Who wants more? Who wants more?"' Simithraaratchy testified, adding that the attack was unprovoked. "That is why he stuck out in my mind."

The defense was scheduled to present its case on Tuesday.

http://csnbbs.com/showthread.php?tid=1184

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The first article concerns the acquittal. It describes the musician as a clarinettist. The CDT article (archived) described him as a pianist and much about his losses professionally. The way the attacker was acquitted was especially offensive.
1) there wasn't even any admission of identity to protect him from needing to pay damages, including medical expenses (!) - as I had said earlier.
2) Also, the victim was blamed for not being able to identity his assailant right after recovering from surgery! Paterno also "went to bat" for his team member. Note that even the second article is so old it was archived. However, living here, I FOLLOWED THESE THINGS WHEN THEY HAPPENED. Unlike you and the "people" you describe as "shaking their heads in incredulity" (Who?). :no:

The second article describes the victim's recovery of a cash settlement. I wonder how much it covers of his medical expenses, not even counting his lost career and mental suffering.

Now, what about YOUR admission of fault? And this is only one of many issues, in which I only described matters and people with which I was personally familiar, many of which affected me and my family directly. That's not even counting issues I researched in depth. What gall you have.

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Jury acquits Penn State footballers
Wednesday, May 01, 2002
By Tom Gibb, Post-Gazette Staff Writer
BELLEFONTE, Pa. -- A jury last night exonerated two Penn State University football players of charges they attacked and seriously injured a fraternity member at a party.

Jurors deliberated for 4 1/2 hours before clearing tight end R.J. Luke and linebacker T.C. Cosby of aggravated assault and related charges that could have resulted in four- to eight-year prison terms.

The verdict was hardly out of the jury foreman's mouth before Cosby leaped from his chair, reached back into the jammed spectators' gallery, grabbed running back Ricky Upton, a close friend, and hugged him until both fell sideways onto a railing.
Relatives of the two defendants sobbed and hugged.

As the courtroom cleared, Luke used his cell phone to tell someone "I feel great right now."

He said he felt sorry for the victim of the assault but insisted that he had nothing to do with it and that a stint in jail would have killed his chances for a career coaching high school football -- the same job his father has.

On Monday, the Centre County jury heard accusations that Luke and Cosby shoved a fraternity member through a window, crippling his hands.
Yesterday, jurors heard witnesses -- and the players themselves -- tell how it just wasn't so, that the defendants weren't the ones who harmed the victim.

"I told the complete truth," Cosby, 20, of Baltimore, told jurors of his denial. To be accused, he said, "was outrageous."
The two days of testimony showed a family feud.

One family was 23-year-old victim Jude Sandt's fraternity brothers at Phi Kappa Psi, the fraternity five blocks from the University Park campus where Sandt was stuffed through a foot-wide window on July 28, his fingers crippled as broken glass sliced apart tendons in his hands.
Phi Psi members said Luke punched Sandt as a prelude to joining Cosby in shoving the victim through the window.

The other family -- "my family," Luke, a senior from Aurora, Ill., testified -- were eight current and former teammates who testified yesterday for the players, some holding them blameless while others provided accounts from which lawyers wove a defense of mistaken identity.

The biggest name was Matt Senneca -- Luke's one-time roommate, the quarterback who lost his starting job last year and decided not to return for the coming season. He told of lending Luke a blue shirt to wear that night, a color that didn't jibe with the descriptions Phi Psi members offered.

The strongest defense witness culled from the football roster was linebacker Tim Johnson, a veteran of the Phi Psi melee who firmly told the jury, "I did not see R.J. punch anybody. ... R.J. did not throw him through the window."

But the Penn State football family might not be a blissful family.

Under subpoena, defensive end Michael Haynes testified Monday for the prosecution about Cosby telling him he threw Sandt through the window, "took him out ... and threw him all the way through."

"On our team, [Haynes] is known as friends with the fraternity more so than with our team," Cosby testified.

"Mr. Haynes is facing the indignation of everybody he plays football with," Assistant District Attorney Stephen Sloane told jurors.
Sandt, an Easton resident, says he lost what he figured was professional-level ability as a clarinetist when his fingers were crippled.
Sandt suffered "horrible physical and emotional trauma," Luke's attorney, Lee Nollau of State College, told jurors.

But Sandt was forced to blame Penn State players as a prelude to a lawsuit he is planning to file against Penn State, he suggested.


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Court orders $900K payout

By Alyssa Owens

A former Penn State football player was ordered to pay nearly $1 million in damages last week for injuries police said he inflicted on a former student after throwing him through a fraternity house window in 2001.

Robert "RJ" Luke, a former tight end for the Nittany Lions, did not show up for the civil hearing last Wednesday but was ordered to pay Jude Sandt, of Allentown, $900,000 in damages. Luke's current whereabouts are unknown to the court.

U.S. District Court Judge John E. Jones III made the ruling after a one-day bench trial in Williamsport last Wednesday.

Luke also failed to appear at four depositions prior to Wednesday's trial and has no attorney representation, allowing Jones to issue a default judgment in his absence, according to court documents.

Letters sent to Luke's last known residence in Austin, Texas, have been returned as undeliverable and he left no forwarding address with the court.

Sandt lost full mobility of his fingers after tendons in both of his wrists were severed during the incident.

Jones said that after reviewing medical records and listening to Sandt's testimony, he determined the appropriate amount to be $900,000.
"I take every case as it comes and I'm not going to classify this ruling as high or low," Jones said. "I thought it was consistent with the testimony."

The ruling comes five years after a Centre County jury acquitted Luke and former Penn State linebacker Thurgood "TC" Cosby of criminal charges connected with the fight at Sandt's fraternity, Phi Kappa Psi, 403 Locust Lane, on July 29, 2001.

After a five-week investigation into the fight, the State College Police Department determined that Luke and Cosby physically attacked Sandt at the front door of the fraternity, punching him multiple times and pushing him through two panes of glass.

Police said the fight began when the two football players attempted to enter a party at the fraternity and refused to sign in.

Sandt was sent to the hospital, where he received surgery on both of his hands to repair torn tendons. He also received stitches on his nose.
Luke and Cosby were charged with aggravated assault, simple assault and recklessly endangering another person, but were exonerated of all charges after a four-hour jury deliberation

on April 30, 2002, according to The Associated Press.

Sandt then filed a civil lawsuit against Luke and Cosby in 2004. Cosby was dropped from the suit in 2006.
According to the complaint, Sandt sought monetary damages for the injuries, which included permanent functional deficits, excessive scarring, wage loss, loss of opportunity and mental suffering.

Luke began his Penn State career as a reserve fullback in 1998 before sitting out the 2000 season with a knee injury. After a 2001 season in which he logged a 64-yard touchdown catch and sprint to spark a second-half comeback against Michigan State, Luke was expected to be the top tight end for the following season.

Luke announced that he was transferring to Western Illinois University two weeks after being cleared of the charges, issuing a statement through the Penn State sports information office that said the events forced him to "re-examine" his life at Penn State. He later moved to Texas, according to court documents.

Judge Jones said there "are certain mechanisms within the law" that might allow Sandt to attempt to recover the damages he is entitled to.
"[Sandt] won a judgement against a defendant that he can't locate and who left no forwarding address," Jones said. "He needs to find him first before he can collect."

Sandt did not return phone calls placed to his home or his office in the music department at Orefield Middle School in Allentown. Luke could not be reached for comment.
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You've given us a link to a post made in a forum?! Great, I'll get right on that apology.

Still, apparantly an assault did happen where two football players attacked a musician, your basic accusations that Paterno and the boys at PSU kept the players from facing charges and covered everything up is proven false right there. The two players did go to court and did face assault charges, and apparantly were later sued successfully in addition.
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You're vehemence on this subject is proving my point, Amanda.
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You've given us a link to a post made in a forum?! Great, I'll get right on that apology.

Still, apparantly an assault did happen where two football players attacked a musician, your basic accusations that Paterno and the boys at PSU kept the players from facing charges and covered everything up is proven false right there. The two players did go to court and did face assault charges, and apparantly were later sued successfully in addition.
You're really something else. Now I'm at fault because the musician was successful in a years-long lawsuit six years after his attackers were illegitimately acquitted! Which was the only way I was able to track the initial reference to his losing in Court - all of which you disputed . Wow!

All my facts are demonstrably true, only without his finally prevailing, you would have argued the players were innocent, "misidentified" , as first claimed. Furthermore, the PSU Student Affairs' head amply demonstrated Paterno's pattern of exerting illegal and illegitimate pressure for players to be exonerated in serious disciplinary matters she attempted to adjudicate. The record shows these to have been among others: sexual assault and other drunken assaults, including attacking the son of a Philadelphia Police Sergeant's son. No, not exonerated in all cases - sometimes, he'd have them pick up trash on the field for a month or so. Instead of prison. Here, they were tried and freed. For SIX YEARS.

I'm supposed to go to the trouble of linking all these incidents now - which, FWIW, I already have. For someone who plays such games?

You deserve zero respect for your unrelenting pursuit of me in these and other issues. Let's see if anyone else dares to comment on your gall. Decency would dictate quite a different response, but that is evidently not your style. "Courage", it's called.
And people wonder why members drop out of this forum! Is everything really dictated by old-boy alliances? Let's see.


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You're really something else. Now I'm at fault because the musician was successful in a years-long lawsuit six years after his attackers were acquitted! Which was the only way I was able to track the initial reference which you disputed . (And I didn't subscribe to the paper at that time, so couldn't have followed it in the CDT). Wow!

All my other facts are demonstrably true. The PSU Student Affairs head validated Paterno's exerting illegal and illegitimate pressure to have players vindicated in other serious disciplinary matters (e.g., sexual assault, other drunken assaults including attacking the son of a Philadelphia Police Sergeant's son. )




No Amanda, you're at fault for originally posting an allegation months ago without any attribution. Today you post for the first time some attribution, great. But it only supports one part of your allegation, that an attack happened. The rest of your allegation (that the attack was covered up etc...) has not been proven or shown that I have seen. You mentioned a Head of Student Affairs finding that Paterno covered for his players excessively and kept them from facing consequences. Fine, could you please show me the finding? I would appreciate it.

All of this still doesn't change my opinion that you have shown an extremely aggressive attitude towards issues involving professional and college football players. I believe that there has been some personal issue in the past, and I believe this has colored all of your impressions of issues involving the sport. I was a little crude in my opening comment, and I apologize for that, but I don't apologize for the general gist of my point and my opinion. During this thread, you have gotten extremely more vehement, you have repeatedly made statements of opinion as statements of fact, and you have inferred that several members of this forum are brain damaged. Because you cannot understand why people would desire to play this game, you dismiss them and their opinions. Except for my first post, I think I've maintained a level of calm throughout this discussion, yet you have not. I would recommend that you consider this for a while.

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You deserve absolutely zero respect for your unrelenting pursuit of me in these and other issues. Let's see if anyone else dares to comment on your gall. Decency would dictate quite a different response, but that is evidently not your style.
And people wonder why members drop out of this forum! Is everything really dictated by old-boy alliances? Let's see.


I ave no need or desire for your respect,Amand, and I would hardly call my requests that you back up allegations with an attribution as unrelenting or gall. Again, my first post was indecent, but you should seriously consider not letting an internet forum get you this upset.
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You deserve zero respect for your unrelenting pursuit of me in these and other issues. Let's see if anyone else dares to comment on your gall. Decency would dictate quite a different response, but that is evidently not your style. "Courage", it's called.
And people wonder why members drop out of this forum! Is everything really dictated by old-boy alliances? Let's see.


You might get a little more support when people agree with you if you didn't make it quite such a slap in the face like 'now all you misogynistic sh!theads HAVE to support me! HAH!'.
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You deserve zero respect for your unrelenting pursuit of me in these and other issues. Let's see if anyone else dares to comment on your gall. Decency would dictate quite a different response, but that is evidently not your style. "Courage", it's called.
And people wonder why members drop out of this forum! Is everything really dictated by old-boy alliances? Let's see.


You might get a little more support when people agree with you if you didn't make it quite such a slap in the face like 'now all you misogynistic sh!theads HAVE to support me! HAH!'.
Nice, Mikhailoh. "Old Boy" #1. :lol2:
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You can hide behind that old saw that you have been fed for so long, but it just reinforces what I said.

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I ave no need or desire for your respect,Amand, and I would hardly call my requests that you back up allegations with an attribution as unrelenting or gall. Again, my first post was indecent, but you should seriously consider not letting an internet forum get you this upset.

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Take a nice deep breath, and you’ll get on top of your spelling again. :deadhorse:
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Enough of this cyberfoolishness. The Super Bowl party is ON. Time for the chili cookoff!

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Enough of this cyberfoolishness. The Super Bowl party is ON. Time for the chili cookoff!

Amen.

Are you ready for some FOOTBALL!!!!

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Aha, and now a word from Jolly. One of the forum members I must have called "brain-damaged"? ;)
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Abt that brain damage - seriously. Who would be willing to subject themselves to these risks? Not risks, certainties. Without prior brain damage, who would agree to it? What's more, unlike boxers, the players are unionized and the unions are complaining.


Now if I wanted to be a jackass, I could start with a rather snarky and childish swipe along the lines of "Take a nice deep breath, and you’ll get on top of your spelling again" but I really don't feel like it. Let's just take this statement the way that it's apparently meant. It seems to me that you are implying here that unless somebody was already brain damaged they wouldn't want to subject themselves to these risks. Wait a minute, not risks but certainties. Ignoring the questionable use of the word certainties (many players have played the game for long careers without cases of CTE, and while the numbers of players coming to light are certainly alarming, it still seems to be a small minority of retired players suffering from CTE) I would say that your implication is pretty clear. So when Jolly states that he wishes that he could have continued, and would have if he had the ability too even after having had a concussion...

By the way, is that emoticon really appropriate, especially for somebody in your profession?
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Garsh, LD. You're just too far ahead of me. I plum forgot Jolly belongs to the players' union. Maybe that's because he wrote about it at 11:50 last night while the remark you carefully linked was from before 7PM.

But then again I also wrote that no sane risk:benefit analysis supported playing despite the dangers. I have now said all players are insane to start with, right?

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I guess it's the business of youth and living in the present - no sense of the future.

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Abt that brain damage - seriously. Who would be willing to subject themselves to these risks? Not risks, certainties. Without prior brain damage, who would agree to it? What's more, unlike boxers, the players are unionized and the unions are complaining.


Now if I wanted to be a jackass, I could start with a rather snarky and childish swipe along the lines of "Take a nice deep breath, and you’ll get on top of your spelling again" but I really don't feel like it. Let's just take this statement the way that it's apparently meant. It seems to me that you are implying here that unless somebody was already brain damaged they wouldn't want to subject themselves to these risks. Wait a minute, not risks but certainties. Ignoring the questionable use of the word certainties (many players have played the game for long careers without cases of CTE, and while the numbers of players coming to light are certainly alarming, it still seems to be a small minority of retired players suffering from CTE) I would say that your implication is pretty clear. So when Jolly states that he wishes that he could have continued, and would have if he had the ability too even after having had a concussion...

By the way, is that emoticon really appropriate, especially for somebody in your profession?
I should have quoted your post above, to make sure connections remain clear.
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Everything in life is risk/benefit.

No sane person would drive a car. No sane person would ride a motorcycyle.

Since most falls occur in the home and falls are a leading cause of death, seems like any sane person would refrain from standing upright or at least have bubble wrap floors.

And most deaths occur in hospitals...why would any sane person go to one?
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