Is the death of football (and other contact sports) coming in our life time?

dawgbybirth

@JoelSidneyKelly said:
Nah. Too much $$$. Way too much.

That and technology will advance in safety. Think we will see more kool advances to appreciate the collisions in measurements live.

MIghtydawg

The human brain and head were not designed to allow for significant impacts to the body or head. Physics tell us that with any type of impact, the brain remains in motion until it strikes the skull, which is not a smooth surface. With significant impacts, you get coup contracoup impact because the brain is bouncing around in the skull. All of this will be very difficult to stop in sports because the body is receiving in impact. Technology was able to reduce it in car collisions because the car is able to absorb and dissipate the energy.

DCochran

What I predict is going to happen is, sometime in the near future, some player is going to lay the wood to some player and knock him into the middle of next week and he'll end up paralyzed. It won't be a helmet-to-helmet mind you, but that won't matter. Now, this has happened before, unfortunately, but since the 'targeting' penalty has come about, you'll have another panzified faction of people coming out saying that the targeting penalty needs to be extended to 'any part of the body', so that a player is actually penalized or even ejected for making a vicious hit on an unsuspecting player instead of just, 'tackling' him. There will be a big debate over the difference in 'hitting' and 'tackling' and they'll up and say that they should never have allowed and/or encouraged players to 'hit'. So, any kind of 'hit' will be cause for ejection and players will be forced to try and 'tackle' only. This of course will change the entire perplexion of the game as it continues to get wimpified down to basically flag football.

deplorabledawg

Do away with the face mask and you will reduce the amount of helmet to helmet hits reducing the amount of head injuries!!

donm

@deplorabledawg said:
Do away with the face mask and you will reduce the amount of helmet to helmet hits reducing the amount of head injuries!!

facial injuries? Eye gouging?

Teddy

@deplorabledawg said:
Do away with the face mask and you will reduce the amount of helmet to helmet hits reducing the amount of head injuries!!

Someone lowering the crown of the helmet into someone's face at full speed wouldn't be a pretty sight. Might kill them.

ghostofuga1

Can't play sports anymore. It's been "outlawed".....

Columbo

@FirePlugDawg said:

@JayDog said:
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.

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dug-G9xVdVs

EricDawgs1

Why can't these league's have the players sign a waiver of knowing what they're getting into?cte can devolepe with any shots to the head it would seem.