The person in this article died at 27. The injuries begin in youth, and are sustained over a lifetime. The person in this article died at 27.

Ah, so “school activity” prevents the brain from being slammed into the interior of the skull when tackled. Roger that.

Pretty sure people said the same thing about coal miners demanding safe working conditions. But keep fucking that chicken.

this isn’t a “both or none” situation. there are plenty of athletic pursuits that allow you to be in excellent condition, while at the same time not requiring you to sacrifice your neurological function.

Not just their peers - their parents, their coaches, their administrators, their neighbors, their boosters...

The gun is called culture and it can be more persuasive than anything else.

Yeah, well, we’re not trying to protect the ones who understand they’re playing a dangerous game. We’re trying to protect the ones who don’t. The ones who are “game”. The ones who want to go back in after getting their bell rung to please the authority figures in their life. The ones with a lot of “fight”, the “tough”…

I hope you are trolling because gahdamn you stupid.

people have always known football will cause bodily injuries that will heal, but the new revelation is that it will cause brain injuries that will NEVER heal.

I do not see where you are coming from.

Because most people make sound life decisions on their own between the the ages of 6 and 22.

Because kids play football knowing the inherent risks they take on, such as muscle deterioration, CTE and God knows what else?

“I get the fact they didn’t really know the risks until very recently, but come on.” Yes, you is stoopid.

Get angry instead. Stop watching and start boycotting advertisers.

How about the part where a company worth billions conspired to keep him from fully knowing the risks. Can’t wait to hear how no one forced the kids in Flint to drink poisonous water. People are dead because billionaires found it more profitable to lie and attempt to withhold the mounting evidence against them. Who was…

Yeah... would you do literally anything if you knew ahead of time that you would have severely diminished mental functions after?

Until you find a 20 year old that believes he is going to die at all, much less from a game, that argument doesn’t hold a lot of water. Especially when most of those kids aren’t the brightest, haven’t really dedicated themselves to studying the issue, and are constantly told by authority figures that CTE doesn’t…

You’re an idiot. You literally just said he was told football is safe for the vast majority of his football career and the risks weren’t known until most of the damage had been done.

No worries: Some shitforbrains is already in with ‘nobody put a gun to his head/he knew the risks’ tomfuckery. Yes: I’m sure as an eleven-year-old boy in 1999, Tyler performed a thorough risk/reward assessment on post-NFL CTE-induced physical and psychological impairment.

I love football, but have a harder and harder time just vegging out and watching it like a big dumb baby than I used to the more and more this information comes out. You watch a guy like Antonio Brown go ragdoll from a helmet hit, and it’s hard to ignore the CTE elephant in the room.