They Started Playing Football as Young as 6. They Died in Their Teens and Twenties With C.T.E.
They Started Playing Football as Young as 6. They Died in Their Teens and Twenties With C.T.E.
They started playing football as kids, began to suffer mentally and died before 30. Researchers found they had C.T.E., the brain disease linked to hits to the head. If their families could go back, would they still let them play?
This is why we don't let our kids play any sport that involves getting your head whacked on a regular basis.
Rugby is a good alternative that's taking off lately.
It sounds and looks a lot more dangerous than football. But when you don't wrap people in a bunch of pads so they feel indestructible, they stop acting like they are.
Plus there's not the "every inch matters" mentality. It's better to go down in a controlled manner to retain ball position, and people do t get a 30 second break for every 10 seconds of play. So people aren't repeatedly going into contact at full speed, getting their bell ru g, and recovering just enough to do it again a minute later.
Rugby is safer, but long term is still risky. Even soccer is associated with CTE.
Soccer: https://apnews.com/article/soccer-heading-brain-injuries-db83f3b292ee255326b6efdf01d8f9e8
Yet here in the south they spend millions on high-school football while all other education gets nothing.
I played high school football and received a few concussions. One year I received 4 and only missed 4 plays. Now I'm almost 40 and my memory is getting worse. I know I have CTE and if I had boys that wanted to play, I would drive them straight to soccer tryouts.
"Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is a neurodegenerative disease linked to repeated trauma to the head."
According to WikipediaI am surprised that no one has tried to link this to vaccines yet