Growing Evidence of Football Causing Brain Damage 684
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."
Correlation is not causation (Score:4, Funny)
Just because you see a bunch of people who seem brain damaged anywhere there is evidence of football does not mean that you've found "evidence of football causing brain damage."
Re:Correlation is not causation (Score:4, Funny)
The problem solves itself... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Correlation is not causation (Score:5, Funny)
It certainly took someone with brain damage to come up with the idea of calling the sport "football" in the first place.
Re:Correlation is not causation (Score:5, Funny)
All good (Score:5, Funny)
Regardless, football remains a normal, healthy, wholesome activity. Video games, on the other hand, still turn out maladjusted serial killers.
Re:Can someone explain to me (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:Correlation is not causation (Score:5, Funny)
Yep same reason basketball isn't called aerial hoopball.
One Player Did Pay for Research (Score:4, Funny)
and with the millions of dollars they are paid, how many of them donated to research?
Well from the summary:
Malcom Gladwell stirred up controversy in 2009 by comparing professional football to dog fighting for the trauma the game inflicts on players' brains, but with mounting evidence that the repeated concussions football players receive during their careers causing a lifetime of brain problems
I recall Michael Vick had quite the experiment set up to study this but, of course, PETA shut him down.
Okay, now I'm going to hell officially.
Re:Correlation is not causation (Score:5, Funny)
Which is why they're called horseball... Wait, horseball sounds like something *entirely* different.
Re:Correlation is not causation (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:Correlation is not causation (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:I remember those guys from high school (Score:4, Funny)
I asked them to compare they're playbooks to ours (end of discussion).
*ahem*
Re:well...no shit..... (Score:4, Funny)
they are paid to kill each other on the field of battle, not to tickle each other
We need to revise the rule list for lingerie football to include this, immediately.
Re:well...no shit..... (Score:5, Funny)
soccer players' brains next.
What ARE the effects on the brain for prolonged and repeated sessions of lying on the grass pretending to have a knee injury?
Re:Correlation is not causation (Score:5, Funny)
Explain Australian rules football. I think they Ok'ed handguns and knives under 5 inches in that game.