What do you guys think?

I think there is some real potential here. The game of football cannot be fixed in terms of avoiding CTE and CTE is starting to have real effects. This is because up until recently people didn't play football enough to be hit as many times as is necessary. Now, there are people playing constantly and I would estimate the majority of NFL players have CTE. Symptoms of CTE can explain a number of things (eg OJ Simpson, Aaron Hernandez, look up Brian Price running through a glass door, there are many others). This is why the NFL focuses so much on concussions now. If people are focused on concussions they aren't focused on CTE.

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>run with football
>now you're a FAG

CTE is the newest meme illness thats vastly over exaggerated in order to push some sort of agenda.

Breast cancer was the old meme before this, done to promote "GRRRLL POWER 'XD" and it worked, now every sport and tv show does 2 (two) full months of wearing pink.

Now CTE looks to keep us all out of athletics and ruin sports.
Be honest guys.
You've all played ball before. In school. In the yard. With family.


Do you feel broken? Mentally incapable?

You don't have a good understanding of what CTE is.

CTE is caused by the sheer number of impact hits these guys experience. It only is arising recently because NFL players have been playing their whole lives. Drilling over and over and over is what causes it. Each hit rattles the brain a little bit and the sum total leads to severe problems. Look up the Brian Price video. Guy runs through a glass door because CTE is fake?

There is already a class action that has to or will have to pay out at least a billion dollars to former NFL players.

>Do you feel broken? Mentally incapable?
yes, and I was a smart kid

NFL will be dead within 10 years. Keep it up, guys.

Yeah...but thats exactly what ive said. It builds up over time, well?

I never played football on a team. But the number of pickup games ive done? The number of games with family, friends, in school?

And other contact/ high impact sports? Basketball? Roller hockey? Ice hockey? Wrestling? Boxing? Skateboarding? Snowboarding? The number of those things ive done definitely adds up over 21 years.

I feel completely fine and ive been bumped around plenty.
Think about all the times you've had your bell rung in life. If CTE was T H A T dangerous then we would all be dead by 40.

>used to play varsity football
>used to play amateur adult football
>played like 6-7 seasons in total

>at 23 I am a major fuck up with psychiatric shit
>starting to think it was the tackles

>always tackled head first

None of those sports have the same type of hitting and physicality of the NFL. The fact that I have to point this out seems surprising. These are the top percentage of athletic people hitting each other daily over a period of 10+ years. This isn't a bunch of low impact low athleticism pickup sports you played intermittently throughout your life.

CTE is real, friend.

>psychiatric shit
>starting to think

This is your chance for revenge.
>1 part youth football tackle image
>1 part easy to find scary quote about CTE
>profit (or not if you're the NFL)

not many football players live to be old age.

It's not big hits that cause CTE, it's many tiny hits. Think of drills in Football.

Also you could be that 1% of people that doesn't get it, that 1 out of 111 brains studied.

>spearheading

They've been coaching against this for decades, how the hell did you not know?

google Rugby. its NFL without armour

More likely low test senpai

I actually think the lack of pads makes rugby much safer. You think a lot more about how to take someone down when you don't have pads on. So the hitting is different. I imagine you still see some CTE effect though. The effects would just be at a lower frequency.

This kills the NFL

It more just opens it up to a broadside courtesy of public opinion

>boxing doesn't have the same type of physicality as football

Id argue that boxing and other combat sports are worse than football. Most of the damage comes from the constant sparring leading up to a fight.

I was talking about that pleb boxing, not a professional. I imagine professional boxers do have similar issues although I would still guess it would happen less often. I think the body to body impact is a big part of CTE and not just head to head or anything to the head.

Yea you may be right. Some of these giganiggas weigh upwards of 330-350 pounds. Having a gorilla like that run into you at full speed is probably not safe. But it seems the nfl is trying to implement rules to lessen head injuries. The main goal of boxing and kickboxing will pretty much always be to inflict head injuries onto your opponent.

Im a pleb tier boxer that just does it for cardio and self defense purposes. I spar like twice a month and i always get a headache after. I dont know how people put up with this shit as a career.

the reality is the majority of the population have 'something' wrong with them and their brain, even if they can operate and support themselves independently and have a family

its very rare to have a 'perfect' brain, you either have to be incredibly sheltered or extremely disciplined and informed

We don't even know how many head injuries it takes to reach cte 'levels'

For all we know, one hit to the head could be enough to cause light symptoms later in life.

There is just way too much about the brain we know too little about.