Finally, people are starting to listen to the football naysayers. Football is a great game and all, but its players are essentially put into a meat grinder, and the post-playing-days solutions are almost non-existent. It’s borderline inhumane. Which means we need to spend a lot more time and money studying the problem and, of course, recommending that we do away with football helmets entirely.
Football Helmets Are Bad For You. Wait, What?
↵Wait. Huh?
↵↵Andrew McIntosh, a researcher at Australia’s University of New South Wales who analyzed videotape, says there may be a greater prevalence of head injuries in the American game because the players hit each other with forces up to 100% greater. “If they didn’t have helmets on, they wouldn’t do that,” he says. “They know they’d injure themselves.”
↵↵The argument is actually sort of convincing. If players took helmets off, they’d be forced to exercise a little self-preservation. Such is the nature of Aussie Rules Football, which is just as rough as football but has a fraction of the related head injuries. Hey, plastic isn’t working. Why not give nothing a try?
↵(HT: Mouthpiece Sports Corazza)
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