Tuesday, May 12, 2015
Reaction to League of Denial
The Concussion Crisis is an ongoing crisis in sports that probably won't be stopping any time soon. The NFL has known for years that there is an ongoing issue that concussions might cause long-term brain defects, such as CTE or dementia. I understand why they deny it, they don't want to destroy the sport of football. Its ok to have that line of reasoning, but that does not mean retired players or current players have to suffer. The NFL should not be having their own doctors running the show on this crisis. If they run the show, how do we know that they are running the proper tests/experiments? How do we know that they haven't rigged the tests in any way? How do we know that they are doing any tests at all? There are too many questions and too many suspicions that they probably will not answer. Testing should be run by brain specialists that are not biased and can be trusted by their colleagues and the general public. The NHL on the other hand has their own concussion issues, but its not as much of a problem as it is with the NFL. The NHL has taken action by creating rules and suspending and/or fining players with the intent to injure someone. The NHL is dealing with a concussion lawsuit, but the players involved have played at least 75 NHL games or less. The players involved with the suit are players that no one has heard off. The NHL will probably win because of the small sample size of games played by the players.
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