Brett Favre says he's suffering from significant memory loss

[Rekkapryde]

That's another thing that bothers me. As if the NFL where all the problems start. For us that didn't make the league yet still went on or played ball for a good portion of our youth, we're almost discounted. I live with shyt from that game that decides to show up every now and then. I hurt too.....

 

[Danie84]

No wonder he didn't show up for training camp

 

[FreedS[ohh]lave]

First shyt that came to my mind........

But as far as Ali goes, he serves as an example as to not go far beyond your physical prime and also be smarter with your money. Boxing change really occurred after Mancini-Kim

Ali was/is just sort of a cautionary tale, but didn't change boxing at all

Boxing did change it went from a huge mainstream sport to a niche sport where the best of the best athletes for the most part went to other sports,thats whats gonna happen to football

 

[FreedS[ohh]lave]

It wasn't just knees and shoulders. I understand wanting to be validated by doctors. I didn't even make the league and it crosses my mind that it'll happen to me too, but I can't claim that I was oblivious. Each year I got headaches. Every single year they lasted longer and longer into the offseason until my head was ringing year round. I stopped playing when I was 22. The headaches didn't stop until I was 25 or 26. Drinking helped. Sitting still worked a bit better. I wanted to slam my head into a door most days. One day I woke up and it stopped. I cried like a baby. I'll ask you, if that same situation happened to you, would you need a doctor to explain that's something that will affect you for the rest of your life? I wasn't expecting them to stop, but I'm happy they did.

I don't get sympathy points neither. I chose to launch my head into people for fun. No one should feel bad for us.

Why yall nikkas wanna play this barbaric savage sport

 

[mozichrome]

older NFL players got a lawsuit vs Riddell, the helmet makers?

http://mmqb.si.com/2013/10/25/riddell-lawsuit-nfl-concussions-andrew-brandt/

Every September NFL teams reduce their roster by 40%, from 90 to 53. NFL scouts are inundated daily with tapes and calls from players and agents hoping for a chance. There is no lack of ready and willing applicants to play football; concussion awareness may affect participation levels at younger ages, but it will not affect the thousands of players competing for hundreds of NFL jobs. Reports of the demise (or death) of the sport are greatly exaggerated, but it does need to change. The business of football has to learn to coexist with the long-term protection of football players.

 

[Ronnie Lott]

Brett Favre was sacked like 550+ times.

Over a 20 year period and he played in an era where you could try to kill the qb Favre was takin some really vicious shots his last 2 years.

That game vs the Saints