Wow, can't believe Rick Fox actually said this Live on air
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I'd like to ask the "I stopped watching football people" if they stopped watching movies since so many actors die from overdoses? Or do you just quit the stuff where black men get checks?
BRUHMANE
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Honestly this is so spot on.
No sane man would be up to the fukkery that some former and current NFL players be up to.
It's a mix of having an acute mental acumen and being treated low key like a god.
BRUHMANE
Rookie
SanchoPanda
I will take what is mine
Coast'in
Rookie
So, let me get this straight. CTE as they Portray it, seems to be a football related degenerative brain disease, never mind in boxing, you use your fist to hit another man in the head to the point he's incapacitated, or deemed unable to continue. Or in hockey where you check your opponent into the boards and you have fist fights. Or in soccer where they've shown headers can cause CTE.
In football, or the NFL in general there 53 guys on the active roster, 22 total play at a given time, 44 total play any given game, in other sports like basketball your max roster is 15, in soccer or European futbol, you have 11 players but a limit on substitutions and don't have the same roster size total as in a NFL team, and in combat sports (boxing, MMA) it's one on one.
So by sheer numbers, yes, football would be higher than most sports in regards to CTE because they have the most people participating. However, CTE is just not a football disease. The BMX guy Dave Mirra who just committed suicide might have suffered from CTE as well.
Why I respect Rick Fox's opinion, getting real tired of people throwing football under the bus like it just became violent all of a sudden! Like Bruh, Darryl Stingley was paralyzed from the waist down in the late 70s, Eric LeGrand from Rutgers was paralyzed from the neck down in the late 2000's, not to mention other instances. So, in his eyes none of those instances mattered until you watched some movie?!?
So MMA, Boxing, Soccer, Hockey, Rugby, and Wrestling + CTE = Ok
Football + CTE = Very Bad
Yea, makes sense...
In football, or the NFL in general there 53 guys on the active roster, 22 total play at a given time, 44 total play any given game, in other sports like basketball your max roster is 15, in soccer or European futbol, you have 11 players but a limit on substitutions and don't have the same roster size total as in a NFL team, and in combat sports (boxing, MMA) it's one on one.
So by sheer numbers, yes, football would be higher than most sports in regards to CTE because they have the most people participating. However, CTE is just not a football disease. The BMX guy Dave Mirra who just committed suicide might have suffered from CTE as well.
Why I respect Rick Fox's opinion, getting real tired of people throwing football under the bus like it just became violent all of a sudden! Like Bruh, Darryl Stingley was paralyzed from the waist down in the late 70s, Eric LeGrand from Rutgers was paralyzed from the neck down in the late 2000's, not to mention other instances. So, in his eyes none of those instances mattered until you watched some movie?!?
So MMA, Boxing, Soccer, Hockey, Rugby, and Wrestling + CTE = Ok
Football + CTE = Very Bad
Yea, makes sense...
Oskar Kokoshka
Banned
Dat concussion movie trailer for the first superbowl commercial doe. 
UpAndComing
Veteran
bump
Power move for the NBA though, it's in the NBA's best interest for the NFL to continue to take heat for the concussion issue. Not saying this was orchestrated or anything, but Silver and his minions were probably shady happy as shyt he said that, if not outright happy about it.
Lakerman0834
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I forgot there is pop Warner boxingSo, let me get this straight. CTE as they Portray it, seems to be a football related degenerative brain disease, never mind in boxing, you use your fist to hit another man in the head to the point he's incapacitated, or deemed unable to continue. Or in hockey where you check your opponent into the boards and you have fist fights. Or in soccer where they've shown headers can cause CTE.
In football, or the NFL in general there 53 guys on the active roster, 22 total play at a given time, 44 total play any given game, in other sports like basketball your max roster is 15, in soccer or European futbol, you have 11 players but a limit on substitutions and don't have the same roster size total as in a NFL team, and in combat sports (boxing, MMA) it's one on one.
So by sheer numbers, yes, football would be higher than most sports in regards to CTE because they have the most people participating. However, CTE is just not a football disease. The BMX guy Dave Mirra who just committed suicide might have suffered from CTE as well.
Why I respect Rick Fox's opinion, getting real tired of people throwing football under the bus like it just became violent all of a sudden! Like Bruh, Darryl Stingley was paralyzed from the waist down in the late 70s, Eric LeGrand from Rutgers was paralyzed from the neck down in the late 2000's, not to mention other instances. So, in his eyes none of those instances mattered until you watched some movie?!?
So MMA, Boxing, Soccer, Hockey, Rugby, and Wrestling + CTE = Ok
Football + CTE = Very Bad
Yea, makes sense...
UpAndComing
Veteran
Idk, I have a feeling that big businesses love when other businesses are thriving, the competition makes more money than if there was only one company on the market. Kinda like how there's always a Burger King, McDonald's, and Wendy's restaurants within 10 yards of each other
Yea I thought that too, but all things considered the NFL would still be thriving, doesn't mean the NBA wouldn't love to pass it up and be the McDonald's of the sports world and let the NFL slide into the Burger King spot. But I def agree they all feed off of each other.
ReturnOfJudah
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Pinyapplesuckas
He's A Good Man
nikkas dont watch documentaries about football unless its about Bo Jackson or the greats....unfortunately it took a movie to open a lot of eyes...including my own and i've always had some reservations about the safety of the game...CTEball losing a good bit of America.. But that's a dumb ass reason, will Smith faking a shytty accent for 2 hours was the thing to convince you
cant lie though..seeing that flick and a few docs after made me not even like football anymore adn makes me glad coaches wanted their sons in over me because i can see in their eyes now that they took too many shots to the head and i'm over here good
