Ha! Love it. Oh, Tommy, you make me homesick.

I would also argue that the playing fields have gotten drastically safer over the years. The local indoor soccer facility in our neighborhood has a better astroturf solution than any indoor NFL stadium had 20 years ago.

I blame 2 people for the gap between then and now. Pat Riley and Michael Jordan.

I have never encountered any masshole that has been able to speak in such long sentences, or express complex thoughts at all without concluding it with an attempted ball-tap.

You probably work for Fan Duel or Draft Kings right?

Not a sir, but yay! Stars!

PEDs have always had a direct correlation to injuries in the past, so why not now? If use is prevalent then yea, they are a major factor. Just not the only one.

But you don’t get CTE from a torn knee ligament. Missing the point, Barry.

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Knee’s aren’t meant to do this

I believe this commenter is the one that usually posts with the voice of your typical “Tommy from Quinzee” Bostonian. I think the parentheses are to denote that he is speaking out of character.

There are more variables than that, for example varying turf conditions.

This is similar— highly related, even— to what we have all read about in the current concussion crisis: I don’t remember where the chart was, pretty sure it was Deadspin, showing just how much bigger every position player is getting without losing speed. Whether this is evolutionary (doubtful), caused by an increase…

You guys are also leaving out the horsecollar rule, which should reduce injury (*should being the key word).

This doesn’t explain though what seems to be at least (I’d love to see actual numbers) the increase in non-contact ACL/MCL injuries.

Is this entire comment parenthetical?

Quinn nails the calculus involved

I’m not going to be a whistleblower

I think his point is that HGH fosters larger muscle growth, which puts extra strain on bones and joints (causing injury). Traditional steroids did the same thing while also hurting the structure of your bones.