26 y/o Ravens linesman retires 2 days after CTE report released
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MalikX
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Y'all really acting like you could not understand that multiple/severe head injuries could result in long lasting/debilitating effects until recently?
Did you know what CTE was in 2005? I didn't.
I did a Google search between 1998 and 2007 for CTE & football and it was mostly only unknown spammy websites and scientific blogs writing about it.
There was one article by CBS & the NY Times in 2007.
I then did a Google search between 2007 and 2017 and there were HUNDREDS of articles.
This lines up with my memory. I was in high school in the early to mid 2000s like the Ravens lineman was.
Unless you were in the know, as in the NFL/College Football circle, you probably had no fukking clue what CTE was in 2005.
The death of Junior Seau brought nation wide attention to CTE and that happened in 2012.
From everything I can remember about back then, parents were more concerned with their children getting paralyzed.
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Mantis Toboggan M.D.
I’m here for the scraps
This team has enough problems without you jinxing them
I don't give a shiit. fukk these devil nikkas who marry cac bytches when they make it in the league. I have no allegiance to these sellout c00ns who never did anything for the cause. Play the game and get compensated handsomely or don't play
Paradise50
Superstar
And this is the sport nikkaz are so eager to play.
I remember cats used to leave college early, just to make the league minimum, which was ౩ or 4 hundred thousand.
You got family with their hands out, lookin at you likebecause of your 400k contract, which is more like 275k after taxes, and your weekly paycheck is 16k and some change for 17 weeks. Many of them spend all that money up and are basically broke during the off season
Seen nikkas blow mini camp money on a whip and don't even get the training camp invite
I came out of HS in 05 and you're right lol
Seau's death made this issue exploded, and the NFL can't stop it. I can see more whites not play but lower income blks aren't stopping any time soon. Cacs just like to watch football...they don't need one of them to be playing to be satisfied.
All Women Are Queens
Superstar
Now he can complete his PhD in peace.
Didn't even know football was a dangerous sport
I thought it was a safe sport like golf and tennis
AlbertPullhoez
The Takeover
I was small when I was young and LOVED playing football. 8th grade, I was getting chewed out to block this DE who was legit a foot taller than me on this drill.
I'm getting yelled at to go lower and put my shoulder into him and knock his ass over. (I was a TE)
So next snap, he knows I'm going to stay as low as I can so he fires off the line low. I drop my head and shoulders to try and get under him and caught him under the chin with my helmet.
He drops backwards like a statue slowly falling and everyone is cheering and shyt. While they're cheering, I drop to a knee because I Mark Rypien'ed myself and lost all feeling through my arms and back.
I'm told to walk it off, it's just a stinger. I'm sitting on the ground on the sideline for 10 more minutes completely fukking numb from the waist up.
Fingers felt like pins and needles several days later. Decided not to try out for the freshman team after that.
SadimirPutin
Superstar
constantly getting your bell ringed for the money in the nfl as it stands is becoming a diminishing value proposition man
UserNameless
Veteran
Dom Foxworth on Mike & Mike spittin real shyt about why he's not gonna let his son play football at the higher levels ... and fat Mike on some, "Walp, walp...I still would play and boys say they would... what can ya do?"
White folks love seeing white quarterbacks. The league's ratings would be waaaaaaaaaaaay lower without them.
UserNameless
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White folks love seeing white quarterbacks. The league's ratings would be waaaaaaaaaaaay lower without them.
Fair point
Brady rules in effect for nearly ALL white quarterbacks, however.
