Comments on: The NFL and Unnecessary Head Trauma https://goingdeepsteelers.org/2015/09/22/the-nfl-and-unnecessary-head-trauma/ An Introspective Steelers Site Fri, 02 Sep 2016 04:36:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: A Growing Trauma—the Steelers and Concussions | Going Deep: https://goingdeepsteelers.org/2015/09/22/the-nfl-and-unnecessary-head-trauma/#comment-2122 Sat, 05 Dec 2015 10:02:35 +0000 http://goingdeepsteelers.org/?p=1261#comment-2122 […] Of course, what is happening here is the two-steps-forward-one-step-back sort of progress you get when an entire culture has to change. As Ivan Cole said in a comment to my earlier article on Unnecessary Head Trauma: […]

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]]> By: The Bye Week Pro Bowl: Insights ‘n At | Going Deep: https://goingdeepsteelers.org/2015/09/22/the-nfl-and-unnecessary-head-trauma/#comment-2000 Fri, 27 Nov 2015 09:29:03 +0000 http://goingdeepsteelers.org/?p=1261#comment-2000 […] Unnecessary Head Trauma:  […]

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]]> By: elpalito https://goingdeepsteelers.org/2015/09/22/the-nfl-and-unnecessary-head-trauma/#comment-798 Thu, 24 Sep 2015 00:17:03 +0000 http://goingdeepsteelers.org/?p=1261#comment-798 A draft pick is a way to dole out employees to force parity between rival companies. I won’t use the term ‘investment’, since the players are people, not commodities.
If a team drafts a player and he quits a year later, that is no different than if the player simply busts…or he gets injured… or if the team cuts him. Did you feel robbed of a 7th round pick when the Steelers cut Holliman?

Honestly, if during the offseason, Dupree announces his retirement because of health concerns…I’d wish him the best. It isn’t always about the fans.

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]]> By: steeler fever https://goingdeepsteelers.org/2015/09/22/the-nfl-and-unnecessary-head-trauma/#comment-797 Thu, 24 Sep 2015 00:01:57 +0000 http://goingdeepsteelers.org/?p=1261#comment-797 A draft pick is an investment, how would you feel if Dupree up and decided he was going to retire after this season. Wouldn’t you as a team and as a fan feel robbed of a 1st round draft pick? I would.

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]]> By: cold_old_steelers_fan https://goingdeepsteelers.org/2015/09/22/the-nfl-and-unnecessary-head-trauma/#comment-796 Wed, 23 Sep 2015 23:22:17 +0000 http://goingdeepsteelers.org/?p=1261#comment-796 This is a bit late for a reply but I am having trouble coming to terms with the issue. I love football but the concussion issue makes me slightly disgusted with myself about it. Even more so as one of my sons has had to quit football because of the concussions (the other had to quit because of other injuries not all of which where from football… can you say rugby).

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]]> By: elpalito https://goingdeepsteelers.org/2015/09/22/the-nfl-and-unnecessary-head-trauma/#comment-789 Wed, 23 Sep 2015 18:38:57 +0000 http://goingdeepsteelers.org/?p=1261#comment-789 How so?
Plenty of people take a job, regret it, and quit for something else. Do they feel bad for the Niners? Did they think Borland somehow tricked their poor owner and robbed him of immeasurable wealth? I’m sure they’d all ‘jump at the chance’ to be the one getting hit in the head regularly. Or so they say.
Why is it different? Just because he’s an athlete?

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]]> By: steeler fever https://goingdeepsteelers.org/2015/09/22/the-nfl-and-unnecessary-head-trauma/#comment-774 Wed, 23 Sep 2015 07:02:49 +0000 http://goingdeepsteelers.org/?p=1261#comment-774 They probably think he should have made that decision before declaring for the draft and getting enough money to retire on. I kind of understand their point if that is their opinion.

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]]> By: Rebecca https://goingdeepsteelers.org/2015/09/22/the-nfl-and-unnecessary-head-trauma/#comment-773 Wed, 23 Sep 2015 03:05:21 +0000 http://goingdeepsteelers.org/?p=1261#comment-773 This goes back to the reaction, I gather, among many Niners fans after the young ILB retired. How anyone thinks it is their business as to whether a young man chooses to possibly his future clarity of mind for the entertainment of the great unwashed floors me.

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]]> By: Rebecca https://goingdeepsteelers.org/2015/09/22/the-nfl-and-unnecessary-head-trauma/#comment-772 Wed, 23 Sep 2015 03:02:18 +0000 http://goingdeepsteelers.org/?p=1261#comment-772 I’m actually trying to imagine you waggling your eyebrows as you move your ears. My husband taught himself to waggle his eyebrows independently as a child after seeing a children’s TV host who did it, but I don’t think he can move his ears, too.

And to your point, surely any decent person is going to be conflicted. But the way to deal with the conflict is not to pretend it doesn’t exist.

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]]> By: Ivan https://goingdeepsteelers.org/2015/09/22/the-nfl-and-unnecessary-head-trauma/#comment-771 Wed, 23 Sep 2015 00:04:15 +0000 http://goingdeepsteelers.org/?p=1261#comment-771 The game is such that its very difficult for players to remove themselves unless they are literally at the verge of collapse. Many players don’t want to do anything that could be viewed as ducking out of a fight. And there is the perception of giving in to weakness. And then there is the matter of career survival. Pressure comes from a variety of directions, including the fans, that is very unsympathetic to injury. The issues that fans had with Shazier and Jones last year, and Cortez Allen are at injury related. There are limits to what we will tolerate in terms of injury from the players. After that they are seen as liabilities.

It this aspect that may be the hardest to transform.

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