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[MaggieMack]

Go Vikings!!! Beat the Pack! (Sorry, deepwaterdotter).

[Kalli]

And along these lines:  It's no surprise that repeated injuries, especially to the head, can cause negative consequences and long term health issues.  Now the condition is given a fancy name but decades ago it was already discovered in those who boxed.

Yet, after some of these football players choose (for the money, fame,glory,whatever) to play and then find themselves washed up at a young age, they file suit.  No one forced them to play.  I'm not a dr but it doesn't take a med degree to come to the conclusion that repeated blows to the head will not bode well for future brain health.  Just don't think they should get a $ settlement for the consequences of them choosing to play.  

[Irshgrl31201]

Yeah, I don't find this surprising at all. My niece did competitive cheer for years and my daughter was in gymnastics competitively for years also. Years ago I used to go to a back doctor monthly for trigger point injections and I took them with me because we were going out to lunch after. My doctor was a really nice guy and in talking to the girls that day he found out they what sports they did. He told me that many of his patients were cheerleaders and gymnasts and the types of serious injuries they sustained. Every sport has injuries and if your the least bit serious about ANY sport you have sustained injuries at some point. It is unavoidable.

I had a daughter so I didn't have to worry about football injuries but my daughter had many more injuries over the years than I have seen from the local boys that played football. She broke her tib fib, fractured wrist, broken arm, broken collarbone and dislocated shoulder. When you play a sport you know that there are certain amount of risks going in and you and your child have to decide what is best for your family. Also you have to realize as a parent a young child or teen is not in the position to realize the damage that can be done permanently down the line. They don't think that far ahead.

Having said that I hope my daughter chooses to put my grandson in maybe krav maga, karate, swim, or something like that. I have had a family of boys that have played football on both high school, college, semi pro and pro level so I do know what comes with it but out of all the injuries I have seen over the years the most serious has been from the girls sports.

[Goldengate8361]

I hate everything about football. Everything.

[Puzzle Piece]

Some of the full contact sport fighting have 100% injury statistic.  Can't just be football. 

[JustJazzmom]

One of my sons broke a rib playing soccer with friends. He got kicked accidentally in the rib area. I saw the healing rib on X ray about a month later.

[esmeraldagooch]

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@terrier3 wrote:

It is the ONLY sport with a 100% injury rate.

Yes, that's right - 100% of participants end up with an injury of one kind or another.

It's being marketed as being as "American as apple pie"...a real eye opener!

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UFC has more injuries than the NFL.  Did you forget about them too?

[gardenman]

Show me a sport, any sport played on the professional level that doesn't have a 100% injury level. They all do. Baseball players get hit by pitches, pull muscles, hit by foul balls, get taken out in slides, tear muscles/tendons, tear rotator cuffs, need Tommy John surgery, etc. and baseball is probably the least full contact sport. There is no baseball player who goes through a season without getting dinged in some way unless he's sitting on the bench the whole season. 

There is no injury-free sport. If you participate in a sport you wil be injured. That's why every professional team has training staffs. Even Nascar has trainers for their drivers, but you can't find a Nascar driver who goes through a whole season of racing without an injury despite the best protective devices possible. Even marathon runners get injured and they're just running against air. There's no ball, bat, tackler, or obstacle, but find me a marathon runner who hasn't been injured in the last year.

When you compete in any sport on the professional level, you're stressing your body to the limit to achieve athletic greatness. When you stress a body to the limit, something will break. It's that simple. The NFL is no different than any other sport.

Oddly the sport that has the highest rate of head injury is pairs figure skating. Between the female partner launching too close to the male and clubbing him on the head with her elbow, or one or both partners falling and hitting their head, pairs figure skaters suffer concussions on a routine basis. Those lovely, graceful young men and women we see floating around the ice have typically had ten or more concussions each starting at a very young age. Ice is hard, the boards around the rink are hard, and skaters fall. 

[SydneyH]

The NFL is the current target of some, they conveniently bypass the injury stats of soccer.  It's kinda funny imo.

[brandiwine]

I find it hard to believe that football is the only sport with 100% injuries.  Define "injury".  In my neighborhood growing up the kids had a 100% rate of boo, boos.  Anything from stitches, broken bones and scraped knees.  So did the neighborhood my kids grew up in.  Maybe growing up is more dangerous than football.  GO STEELERS!!