Yes, it is being treated seriously – limiting heading for training etc…
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I kinda feel for the guy. Here he was thinking that he’s going to someplace fun, exciting with tons of parties with booze and pretty ladies just to find out he’s going to Saudi Arabia instead.
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Unspecified “positive direction,” but I will take that. The lack of updates was causing me to have very dark thoughts about where this was going.
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(NY Times reprint)
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Could you explain what that term means please?
Literally every player in the league will be injured in the course of their employment. In fact, depending on how you count it, it could be hundreds of % due to every one being injured multiple times. Not every one will be dramatic, highlight reel stuff, but the lower level, chronic, repeated injuries probably claim more long term debilities than the more dramatic ones.
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I see, thank you. I did wonder whether there was some degree of injury or period of time.
I think there are probably many sports where this is the case, from football (soccer) to motorcycle racing, many of them due to training as much as actual gameplay.
I imagine that the more contact sports, for example, rugby (league and union) and Australian rules football are probably amongst those that are much more than 100%.
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Of course. But it’s not up to any of us to confer victimhood status to people who aren’t asking for that. Since Monday, there hasn’t been a single retirement. A whole lot of players have said they don’t want to play this week (or implied such), but I haven’t heard any of the actual people involved say they’re done with the game. It’s just quite possible there’s more to the discussion than “Football BAD!”
Interesting term, that. How does it differ from the one that describes him as what he actually is-- a victim?
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I’m surprised that there isn’t an NFL tweet proclaiming he’ll be playing next time his team plays…
I’m glad he’s improving and hope he’s okay.
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Same here
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“Lungs continue to heal” is a weird statement following cardiac arrest. But we really still do not know.
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When asked if the NFL is becoming too dangerous, Biden touted recent efforts to make the sport safer but indicated that there is only so much that can be done:
“You’ve got guys that are 6-foot-8, 340 pounds running a 4.8 40, hit somebody with that kind of force — now that’s not what happened here. I don’t know how you avoid it. I think working like hell on the helmets and the concussion protocols, that all makes a lot of sense. But it is dangerous, and you’ve got to just acknowledge it.”
…and in comes the conservatives who say that liberals want to ‘wussify’ young men.
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Another report I read said that his lungs were damaged during resuscitation. I know ribs often break, and there were reports of hemorrhaging, so perhaps related to that? Either way, very welcome news.
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It’s not up anyone to arbitrarily speak for Other people ad nauseum, either; in fact, to do so as a person of privilege when it comes to discussing POC is very insulting, infantizing even.
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he just explained one way to avoid some of it
upper weight limits
weigh everybody before the game
lots of “sports” work like that
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(NY Times reprint)
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Being from Detroit I never once thought the Lions would end up in the playoffs so it’s no surprise they were eliminated.
The funny thing is my Facebook feed is filled with the game was rigged and they cheated. Their talking about the Rams Seahawks game.
This whole my guy lost it must be rigged runs deep.
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