My husband and I were talking about this and wondering if there is privilege part where a Black player wouldn’t have been allowed to yet like this? I don’t really know but I always appreciate digging critically into this ritual of “Americanness.” Men screaming at each other with millions of people and dollars invested in this violence is just quintessential USA.
The repeated trauma to the brain has been documented and continues to be researched. It does horrible things to the players, who often die young, have radical personality changes, anger issues, and more. Some former players are now leaving their brains to science after they die so that research can be done. No helmet design that exists, prevents this. I actually used to like watching football but I can't watch it at all anymore.
I'm not saying this is the cause of the rage display, btw. Just that it's a reason not to participate in football as a viewer or especially as a player. Pro football takes young people who may not have a whole lot of other hope of changing their circumstances and starts them destroying their brains as children. Only a small percentage even make it to the NFL or anything close to it, but they've already done damage by that point.
"The team then looked at the relationships between these estimated impacts and CTE in 631 male brain donors who had previously played football. Results were published on June 20, 2023, in Nature Communications.
On average, the brain donors had played about 12 years of football and died at age 60. About 28%, or 180 of them, didn’t have evidence of CTE in their brains. Another 163 had low-stage CTE, and 288 had high-stage CTE. As seen in previous studies, the number of reported concussions wasn’t associated with CTE incidence or severity."
My husband and I were talking about this and wondering if there is privilege part where a Black player wouldn’t have been allowed to yet like this? I don’t really know but I always appreciate digging critically into this ritual of “Americanness.” Men screaming at each other with millions of people and dollars invested in this violence is just quintessential USA.
The repeated trauma to the brain has been documented and continues to be researched. It does horrible things to the players, who often die young, have radical personality changes, anger issues, and more. Some former players are now leaving their brains to science after they die so that research can be done. No helmet design that exists, prevents this. I actually used to like watching football but I can't watch it at all anymore.
I'm not saying this is the cause of the rage display, btw. Just that it's a reason not to participate in football as a viewer or especially as a player. Pro football takes young people who may not have a whole lot of other hope of changing their circumstances and starts them destroying their brains as children. Only a small percentage even make it to the NFL or anything close to it, but they've already done damage by that point.
Chronic traumatic encephalopathy - https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/how-football-raises-risk-chronic-traumatic-encephalopathy
"The team then looked at the relationships between these estimated impacts and CTE in 631 male brain donors who had previously played football. Results were published on June 20, 2023, in Nature Communications.
On average, the brain donors had played about 12 years of football and died at age 60. About 28%, or 180 of them, didn’t have evidence of CTE in their brains. Another 163 had low-stage CTE, and 288 had high-stage CTE. As seen in previous studies, the number of reported concussions wasn’t associated with CTE incidence or severity."
Tbh, it’s not being discussed enough and the way people are laughing it off or worse, applauding Kelce for his “passion”, is deeply worrying.