caring about athletes health and well being

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Originally Posted by Knucklehead

The problem is a lot of kids are getting minor brain damage at a young age where they don’t know what they’re doing and while dealing with that they are pushed by adults around them to dedicate their life to that sport. Then they are taunted with millions of dollars and fame.

So nah, it’s not as simple as “they know what they’re getting into”.

its nonsense. they don't hit hard enough to do any lasting damage to their brain until they are old enough to make their own decisions

any kid being forced to play at the high school level isn't going to be good enough to make it anyways so pretending that he is in danger is malarkey

im also not sold on cte as a whole just because they only test people for it who were at risk in the first place

so when studies come out like 108 out of 111 brains had CTE its like ok. how many brains out of 100 have it who never played football?

but yea the whole CTE discussion already has parents not letting their kids play these sports, which just further illustrates that those who do play know the risks