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Growing Evidence of Football Causing Brain Damage
ideonexus writes "NFL Linebacker Junior Seau's suicide this week bears a striking similarity to NFL Safety Dave Duerson's suicide last year, who shot himself in the chest so that doctors could study his brain, where they found the same chronic traumatic encephalopathy that has been found in the brains of 20 other dead football players. Malcom Gladwell stirred up controversy in 2009 by comparing professional football to dog fighting for the trauma the game inflicts on players' brains. With mounting evidence that the repeated concussions football players receive during their careers causing a lifetime of brain problems, it raises serious concerns about America's most popular sport and ethical questions for its fanbase."
It certainly took someone with brain damage to come up with the idea of calling the sport "football" in the first place.
Regardless, football remains a normal, healthy, wholesome activity. Video games, on the other hand, still turn out maladjusted serial killers.
--- Math illiteracy affects 8 out of every 5 people.
The south might rise up a second time if we told them no more high school football.
If we're lucky. This time around we might be able to let them go.
William of Ockham had no beard. The most likely explanation is that it was chewed off by squirrels every morning.
Which is why they're called horseball... Wait, horseball sounds like something *entirely* different.
There is a reason name changes tend to follow changes of whatever facts are relevant. USA is no longer called "colonies" because they no longer are colonies. So if the sport today has almost nothing to do with either feet or balls then it should be called something else. Perhaps now is the time to call it Brain Damage.
Which is why they're called horseball... Wait, horseball sounds like something *entirely* different.
Yes. A horse ball is a giant transparent sphere that you put a horse in so that it can run around without getting into tiny nooks and crannies and to protect it from getting accidentally stepped on by larger creatures.
When our name is on the back of your car, we're behind you all the way!