[Giantone]

[quote=NC_Skins;1021252]Do we have a huge number of people that played high school/college football have the type of issues that guys who've played professional football a good majority of their lives? The speed of the games isn't even comparable. Nothing in college can remotely compare to the NFL (not even the SEC) when it comes to size/speed. Those two elements play a huge part in the grand scheme of things. Furthermore, there are less games in a college season than pros. Also, most guys who play college football generally stop after 4 years. Well, if they were to play 15 years after the fact, maybe we would be having this discussion in regards to college football.

You make is sound as if it's just one instance that causes this lasting brain damage. It's nothing you can pinpoint to a single point and time, just the general area where most of the violent collisions occurred.


Ok ,I'm sure I'll miss something here but I'll try.
1) Do we know if high school or college caused this ,a concussion is a concussion and no I'm not being blah about this ,my point is there is no difference from 4 or 5 in high school or college and for you to say that college or high school games can't give you those same injuries as playing in the pros you would be wrong .Huge numbers ? I don't know , were high school or college players allowed into the suit ?
2)Playing Pro football a good majority of their lives is what , 5 ,7, 10 , 15 years l would have to see what the average career was of the players in the suit ?
3) So you think the number of games is the problem or at least some of it ,well how about this ... start in pee wee , age 7 ,play through jr high or pop warner till Freshman year (what's that 14 /15) play through your senor year that's 18 , now if you are good enough you go and play in college, any college USA all 4 years what is that 20/21 ?You have been playing this sport for 14 years and this includes practices ,and yes you can get the concussions from your own teammates in practice .
4) You said,"You make is sound as if it's just one instance that causes this lasting brain damage. It's nothing you can pinpoint to a single point and time, just the general area where most of the violent collisions occurred."

Now you are assuming, I never said on instance ,never hinted at it .I will tell you what though I have seen one hit , one what seem very ordinary hit make a teammate never the same but he was the lucky one ,he lived it was another teammate that died in the game that day.