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Is the death of football (and other contact sports) coming in our life time?
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ESPN has a very long but good article on the difficulty of football and other sports to get insurance coverage especially at the youth level. Even the NFL, with all of its money, is finding it difficult to find insurance as only one insurance carrier is willing to write the policy. However, that insurance company has a very interesting perspective that football is not going anywhere because it is the life blood and gathering place of the community. Are we beginning to witness the eventual death of football, hockey and soccer?
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If this happens we lose any sense of unifying culture except for wal mart and mcdonalds. It'd be the saddest thing. Im sure CTE is caused by other things than football too. Weve just only studied football...for some reason
Nah. Too much $$$. Way too much.
The death of everything is coming.
ETA....unknown.
That may be true in the NFL and major college football but if football dies at the youth and high school level, where do you get the players to play in college and the NFL.
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They have studied it in wrestling and hockey as well. A few "professional" wrestlers have a lawsuit against the wwe for concussion and cte concerns.ay have been one or two diagnosed as well.. can't remember. Football has just received the most press and the most confirmed cases.
Didn't know that. thanks
Here's a link for the wrestlers.
https://uproxx.com/prowrestling/nuka-mr-fuji-more-diagnosed-with-cte/
And soccer... Also I was listening to a football show on the radio once upon a time and they had some sort of a head doctor on it, can't recall the exact specifics now. But basically he said during his interview that soccer was sport that caused the highest rate of head injuries. I did find this article kind of going into that after I saw this thread.
https://consumer.healthday.com/cognitive-health-information-26/concussions-news-733/which-high-school-sport-has-the-most-concussions-720657.html
In sports played by both girls and boys, girls had much higher concussion rates than boys, Hsu's team found.
Between 2010 and 2015, the concussion rate was higher in girls' soccer than in boys' football, the findings showed. During the 2014-2015 school year, concussions were more common in girls' soccer than in any other sport in the study.
We will have to find ways to protect players from concussions and neck injuries. But contrary to the football powers that be--it is not going to be through rules changes or reeducation on how to tackle. Equipment improvements are necessary. Don't ask me what those will be. I'm secretly working on a solution in my underground laboratory.
Seriously, if equipment can't protect kids, then eventually the game will change through necessity. Two hand touch? It won't be our game.
'We all got it coming kid.' lol
I'll always have folk wrestling and BJJ though
And if you look at football from 1918 vs 2018 it is dang near a different game anyway. I am sure it will look pretty different a century from now. Change is not always a bad thing. Safer means guys play longer, promising careers are not cut short before they get started, and more people participate.
Will it be different? Without a doubt. But that does not inherently make it worse
Football has definitely changed over the years but so has everything else in our world today. No way does it go away, we still thrive on the competition and I think it’s the greatest team sport period.
There was a lawsuit against US Soccer a few years ago that made them change the rules for heading. No longer are you allowed to head in U-12 games and they have guidelines for how much practicing of headers. I am still surprised they have not mandated the headgear for the Goalkeepers as well.
I would agree with that ^^. Between plastics and ball bearings, there ought to be vast safety improvements just around the corner. As to soccer (futball) and wrestling, a rudimentary helmet should provide vast improvement. For hockey, ice and field, and pardon the expression, lacrosse, likely some more serious headgear is needed to be worn due to the sticks and puck, velocities, and such.