Comments on: Better Living Through Chemistry, or, Are There Any Solutions in Sight for Concussions? https://goingdeepsteelers.org/2015/12/06/better-living-through-chemistry-or-are-there-any-solutions-in-sight-for-head-trauma/ An Introspective Steelers Site Sun, 26 Mar 2017 00:48:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: steeler fever https://goingdeepsteelers.org/2015/12/06/better-living-through-chemistry-or-are-there-any-solutions-in-sight-for-head-trauma/#comment-2131 Sun, 06 Dec 2015 19:43:21 +0000 http://goingdeepsteelers.org/?p=3301#comment-2131 Thank you for including my commentary, as they say, even a blind squirrel will occasionally find a nut. This is such a quality article that I hope it gains a much wider audience as it is relative to every NFL team and every NFL player, actually it is relative to every football player at any level.

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]]> By: Ivan https://goingdeepsteelers.org/2015/12/06/better-living-through-chemistry-or-are-there-any-solutions-in-sight-for-head-trauma/#comment-2130 Sun, 06 Dec 2015 16:27:36 +0000 http://goingdeepsteelers.org/?p=3301#comment-2130 Some of the problems with player safety are right in front of our eyes and we are refusing to connect the dots. I may have been concussed once on a football field. I had a headache for a few plays but was never disoriented or woozy. I think I know what I’m talking about here because I was hit by a car when I eight years old, knocked unconscious, diagnosed with a ‘mild’ concussion and had to spend a few days in the hospital and a week or more of bed rest. (And for some this may explain a great many things 🙂 ).

On the other hand I suffered a mid foot sprain during a game. The head athletic trainer for the University ordered the trainers treating me to retape my leg and put me back in the game. I was playing well, the outcome of the game was in doubt. I was okay with it, flattered really. So I played the remainder of the game on one leg (we won) and I was a hero. A few days later practicing on the unhealed limb I suffered a more severe injury. In high school I suffered a shoulder separation that caused the most excruciating pain I had ever experienced. Yet as soon as they put the joint back in place in the hospital I began to wonder if I could get back in time to return to the field. As I have explained before, there is a battlefield ethic at work here that permeates the entire football culture.

However, when pointing fingers on this issue, be sure to reserve a few for ourselves. Don’t give me your expressions of concern on a thread like this while commenting elsewhere that Ryan Shazier is a wuss. (And btw, with all due respect to Keith Butler, isn’t he the guy who said Sean Spence would never play again?) We’ve done the same to Jarvis Jones, Cortez Allen, Maurkice Pouncey. As fans we may be appalled by the statements of a Colin Dunlap, but at the end of day we want our entertainment and woe to the whiney, fragile, momma’s boy wimp who doesn’t gut it out and give it to us. We literally declare injured players failures and busts, and now you are wondering why they don’t self report a concussion when anything short of a bone sticking out of their skin constitutes a challenge to their manhood and integrity.

Technology cannot trump culture.

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