On 9/16/2014 VCamp2748 said: Knee-jerk reactions usually do result in a lot of chaos. The panic among a bunch of good ole boys only makes it worse. All those years of "winkie winkie" & looking the other way about the boys' misbehavior now comes home to roost. Now let them dig themselves out of the pile of doo-doo they've let go for so long. Look how long it took them to start to even try to make right all the wrongs involved with head injuries over the years.
While I do not claim to be even close to an expert on domestic violence, why is it the responsibility of a person's employer to make sure they do not and are not breaking a law? Should every employer start looking at all their employee's domestic bliss, or lack of it? I don't see why the NFL should be any more involved in what one of their employees does when it comes to domestic violence or breaking any laws. If so, than every company should also have that same responsibility for all of their employees.
I've followed the evolution of helmets in the National Hockey League(NHL) from no players wearing helmets to making them a requirement at all levels starting with the youngest, which is the Youth Mites Leagues. Every year they have gotten better and more protective, but players have also gotten bigger/heavier/stronger and faster, so what might have been the best a few years ago is no longer that good today.
I don't quite understand your position on the NFL and head injuries. I would be surprised if the NFL was not doing as much or more research on helmets and the NHL to help prevent head injuries via concussions. Also do not understand why you seem to be removing the players responsibility from the equation when it comes to head injuries sustained because of their choice to play professional football.
Sure, nobody knew what the future would bring when it came to sustaining one head injury after another. However, each player that suffered a concussion knew full well after each one how much longer it took to get back to some semblance of normalcy during their recovery from each one of them. I look at this as the players responsibility of understanding what his body is telling him. At this level of a sport an athlete should be able to read pretty well the signals his body is sending him, and if not? He ain't been paying any attention to it, and for a long, long time.
I know 2 young men that have played hockey since they were 5 years old. Played all the way through Youth Hockey and High School Hockey programs. Both of these young men were offered "full ride scholarships" to a Major College, hockey of course. Both of them excepted them, but only 1 ended up going to college. The second one, the son of a very good friend of mine, had a concussion during one of the last few games of his High School Hockey.
His father, which is now and Oral Surgeon, took him to several Sports Neurologists and had them do their thing concerning his concussion issues. This was his 3rd concussion during his hockey playing years. All of these doctors came up with the same conclusion. If he received another serious concussion he could become a paraplegic or worse. This 18 year old was crushed but his father told him it was his decision to make. He chose to not play hockey at that level any longer and instead became a fireman in our city/an ENT and also a Paramedic.
He played in my Adult Hockey League for 2 years so he could at least be around the game he played almost all of his life. He moved out of our city and I am not sure where he is living at this time.
He made a decision at age 18 and I guess you are saying that other older men cannot make their own decision after playing High School/probably some college football, before deciding to play on an NFL team?
I disagree. The onus in on the player not his employer.
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