Wow... concussion boy Collie just got rocked again... Tough to watch, everytime

[JimC1097]

he gets healthy, he comes back and gets ricked again. His career may be about over if he wants to live a productive life after football. If concussion, this will be at least the 3rd concussion this year. How many can one take before long term effects?

 

[MSU Moral Victory]

Just because I'm interested in this kind of stuff, here is a great article about the impact of concussions on football players. It also features former Saint Kyle Turley. It's crazy that people think the NFL shouldn't be doing something about this. The way the game is going, they are at best going to have a class action lawsuit on behalf of 100 brain-dead football players in 20 years. At least they will be able to say they took steps to try and prevent it.<div>
</div><div>http://www.newyorker.com/...gladwell?currentPage=all</div>

 

[JimC1097]

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[NashvilleBulldawg]

Isn't that like a NASCAR driver suing NASCAR for car crashes? I mean, isn't that part of the game?

 

[Maroon Eagle]

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[quickdawg]

At a supercomputing conference last month in NOLA they brought in Drew Brees to help promote it. I was there at the presentation but was too busy gooning out over getting to meet him**, have a picture taken with him, and getting his signature on a football to listen to what they were talking about. Whoops. So, more on that technology: http://www.networkworld.c...el-football-helmets.html

Intel is working with helmet maker Riddell and researchers from several universities to simulate football collisions and study their impact on the brain, in the hopes of building injury-resistant helmets, the chipmaker said.

The simulations, using technology embedded within helmets, such as wireless transceivers and accelerometers, produce visualizations of stresses on the brain caused by collisions, and compare them with data from other impacts to determine a player's risk of injury.

Future technologies using Intel Atom processors "could be embedded in helmets and wirelessly feed data into servers and cloud networks that measure injury risk and impact in real-time," Intel said. "When combined with impact simulation, this could better safeguard players by identifying potential injuries quickly so that medical personnel can respond faster and have information as soon as they reach the player on the field."

**Mr. Brees is a nice guy and an unassuming dude. He drove himself to this event, with his agent riding shotgun and bodyguard hanging out in the back seat, and didn't make a big deal about walking around the exhibit floor amongst thousands of super dorks.

 

[MSU Moral Victory]

Hasn't NASCAR taken huge steps to improve safety for the drivers since #3 died? You can't have a sport where your stars are getting hurt or even worse dying. People will stop tuning in. It's one of the reasons boxing is down and the reason MMA will never be a prime time event. The class action suit was just an extreme example of the point I was trying to make.