Did The Bell Just Toll?

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Probably not. For the NFL anyway the lure of potential big bucks will keep the ranks full with those who didn't/don't have a lot going for them otherwise. The chance to be rich and famous is a strong draw for many people as well.

I have to respect John for his decision. It can be hard to walk away from a potentially lucrative career, especially in a sport that you love to play, but he decided his family, his continued education and having a properly functioning brain were more important than football.
 
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Jinentonix said:
Probably not. For the NFL anyway the lure of potential big bucks will keep the ranks full with those who didn't/don't have a lot going for them otherwise. The chance to be rich and famous is a strong draw for many people as well.

I have to respect John for his decision. It can be hard to walk away from a potentially lucrative career, especially in a sport that you love to play, but he decided his family, his continued education and having a properly functioning brain were more important than football.
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All true, but when the smartest man in the NFL hangs it up for fear of brain damage, you have a problem. As a three-year interior lineman, you can't question his guts, and as a MIT mathematician, you can't question his brains.

Ex-player lawsuits might wreck the NFL. Or it might decline like boxing did. Heck, I freakin' LOVE football (Go Ravens! Go Redblacks!), and I'm seriously questioning whether I can continue to support it.
 
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Perhaps this is the end of pro sports for big bucks. Without the money flow the show crumbles like auto racing did when tobacco money was pulled. Pull the expense of new and bigger arenas, insurance requirements for security will become the biggest expense, with the best return at the end of the year as it is 100% write-off.
 
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The left hates the NFL because it makes people happy and the lawyers love the NFL cuz its gots lots of mullah to sue for. Very sad to see the NFL die.
 
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Tecumsehsbones said:
All true, but when the smartest man in the NFL hangs it up for fear of brain damage, you have a problem. As a three-year interior lineman, you can't question his guts, and as a MIT mathematician, you can't question his brains.

Ex-player lawsuits might wreck the NFL. Or it might decline like boxing did. Heck, I freakin' LOVE football (Go Ravens! Go Redblacks!), and I'm seriously questioning whether I can continue to support it.
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I love the CFL, Tec but I too wonder how long I can continue to support a game that has the potential to cause long-term harm to its players.
 
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Mowich said:
I love the CFL, Tec but I too wonder how long I can continue to support a game that has the potential to cause long-term harm to its players.
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Especially now that the potential is so much higher than we ever dreamed.

Poor men beating themselves and each other into brain damage for rich men's entertainment is not a position I'm comfortable with. It's why I don't like boxing.

Maybe lacrosse? Plenty hard-hitting, but there doesn't seem to be as much head-to-head, and I think rule changes to stop what there is would be easier.
 
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petros said:
There is probably an app to design a better brain bucket.

Imagine the rugby stats.
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Problem is, it's not the helmets. Apparently most of the trauma comes, not from impacts to the skull from the outside, but from violent movements causing the skull to hit the brain. No kind of helmet can prevent that.
 
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