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I thought we had a Hernandez thread around somewhere. Did a quick search, didnt find one so here is this. Interesting, nonetheless:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/mobile.nytimes.com/2017/09/21/sports/aaron…
https://www.google.com/amp/s/mobile.nytimes.com/2017/09/21/sports/aaron…
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” Upton Sinclair
Don't worry- the NFL doesn't know anything. And even if they did - these guys CHOOSE to play
Nah, he WAS just a serial killer. No excuses.
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Work until you're 55-60 or work until you're 35?
Pretty easy to see why they choose to play.
At this rate...Might as well start by suing the peewee league, grade school, high school, college, and lastly the NFL..such bullshit.
Unfortunately, when the guys without their degrees go back and try to finish them, they don't have the same support system of tutors, academic advisors (babysitters), etc. and they realize that the world no longer revolves around them because they aren't important to the athletic program to put butts in seats anymore.
A big part of me is glad that my kids weren't overly enthusiastic about football, and that part is growing. They do plenty of other things that can have bad results (snowboarding, skateboarding, etc.) but football is such a different animal with the constant beating that your gray matter takes.
There are studies showing that there is a similar enzyme known as ckbb that works the same to indicate brain damage. The NFL and NCAA pay a lot of money to fund the research to make sure this does not become common practice. Imagine all the NFL players getting benched because they ended up with too much brain damage during a game.
This study concluded that although the elevated ckbb levels can not specifically diagnose a concussion, they can be a good indication of adverse long term affects. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6741637
Also the diagnosis of an actual concussion is very vague because it is mostly just based on symptoms that are reported by the patient.
Dont take my response as a personal one. I simply think that data can be misleading sometimes without knowing some of the details of how it is acquired and how reliable it really is, especially important in medicine.
It's pretty interesting that they were able to already see a trend in 1984 but haven't made any public progress on the research since then.
I say this not to discount anything. I'm fairly young and feel like I suffer from CTE due to my years in motocross.
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