Physically disabled + memory loss: Former NFL receiver Antwaan Randle El regrets playing football

[geechiedan]

I will forever say that this lawsuit is bullshit. Where are the law suits against high school and college athletics? That's where the "problem" starts.
As a former high school and college player, I can say that I knew the risks when I played. I'm likely going to need my knees replaced and back surgery, but I wouldn't change it. I fucking loved the sport.

Average 12 high school and college football players die each year, study says

Each year in the U.S. an average of a dozen high school and college football players die during practices and games, according to a new study that finds heart conditions, heat and other non-traumatic causes of death are twice as common as injury-related ones.

Researchers reviewed data from the National Center for Catastrophic Sports Injury Research and found 243 football deaths recorded between July 1990 and June 2010.

One hundred of the fatalities resulted from an underlying heart condition, 62 were due to a brain injury - typically a subdural hematoma - and 38 were from heat-related causes, according to findings published in The American Journal of Sports Medicine.

Kelly Dougherty, an assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, said she found the number of heat-related deaths in particular "quite alarming."

Thats a fuckin MORTALITY RATE...IN AMATEUR LEVEL FOOTBALL...think about that.

If the pros average 12 deaths a year they would shut the league down and have congressional hearings..your KID has a real chance of dying playing a GAME and its oh well

 

[D Kline]

Had two next door neighbors play in college. One kat is early 40s and walks with a fucking cane. His parents said fuck it and paid for his degree. Its sad to see him when I'm back home having to roll back and forth to get into his car.

 

[woodchuck]

broke my femur,

 

[meilmarc]

Football is a violent sport, my leg got hit from the side while I was running down field to chase down a RB, my foot was planted and my knee got hit from the side by my damn teammate who dove and missed the RB(dude weighed about 240). On video my leg was looking like Willis McGahees legs against Ohio state.

The hit broke off a chunk of my femur close to the knee joint and took my acl and mcl with it. I had emergency surgery to screw and pin my femur back in place and they stapled my mcl back, then I had 5 ,month of rehab to get the range of motion back in my knew just so I could have the acl reconstruction

That was a hard year but I made it back.

 

[woodchuck]

Football is a violent sport, my leg got hit from the side while I was running down field to chase down a RB, my foot was planted and my knee got hit from the side by my damn teammate who dove and missed the RB(dude weighed about 240). On video my leg was looking like Willis McGahees legs against Ohio state.

The hit broke off a chunk of my femur close to the knee joint and took my acl and mcl with it. I had emergency surgery to screw and pin my femur back in place and they stapled my mcl back, then I had 5 ,month of rehab to get the range of motion back in my knew just so I could have the acl reconstruction

That was a hard year but I made it back.

That's how my elbow got broken. I tackled the DB after he picked off a pass, and as I was getting up, the TE come diving in trying to get some dirt on his uni, and sent my elbow the opposite way. I was so pissed, I didn't feel the pain until I calmed down on the sideline. Also, injuries and cold weather don't mix!

 

[willbprod]

When I was younger we played tackle without pads on and was sticking the fuck out of each other. For years.... nobody has brain damage that I know of. It's a violent sport, so is mma, boxing and rugby. Where's all the concern for those people in those sports?

 

[IMDATDUDE]

I was a basketball dude playing football in High School older brother was a star so it was like they made me play since they thought maybe I might be like him, but my brother and I are built different. I'm skinny lean and cut, and he was big and thick, Lb in high school but he probably was your ideal RB or SS for college which he went on to play D1.

Well my 4th week into my first year of High School football broke my damn leg in practice, "PRACTICE" fuck career of sports over just like that didn't even get to really play the sport I lived for. I tried but just wasn't meant to be. Motherfucking football man

 

[Mello Mello]

thats it in a nutshell... youre more likely to hit harder if you don't feel it. Strip DOWN the padding and I guarantee you cats will ease up on that shit...the first time you hit someone and injure YOURSELF you won't do that shit anymore.


notice how you don't hear about the same issues in soccer or hockey or rubgy...see above for the reason.

At least that's my theory. When I played as a kid and in high school we'd go hard on the field because we were padded and didn't "feel it", as a kid at the park we'd tackle but were much more mindful how we tackled each other. I think the same will translate in the NFL. Guys will change how they tackle each other to reduce injury on themselves and other players.

 

[futureshock]

My uncle (the weird religious one) was on the Steelers practice squad back in the day. He ended up committing suicide in a mental hospital. We never connected the dots. We just thought he was crazy.

I was just about to say....now I see why the suicide angle is a possibility in some of these concussion cases. Dudes lost their minds and there was no outlet for help or support from their former employer. Sad stuff.

 

[geechiedan]

At least that's my theory. When I played as a kid and in high school we'd go hard on the field because we were padded and didn't "feel it", as a kid at the park we'd tackle but were much more mindful how we tackled each other. I think the same will translate in the NFL. Guys will change how they tackle each other to reduce injury on themselves and other players.

the shits a no brainer but it would slow the game down and people would complain. Spectators want to see long throws, exciting runs and hard hits. until people actually start dying on the field in the game shits not going to change

 

[GhostWriter]

I don't have any kids yet, but I'll never let them football and hopefully that's how a sport that doesn't take care of their athletes dies.

The NFL had a good run, but unless they get their shit together there's gonna be more and more parents who opt out of sports like football into something more safe.

 

[BrownTurd]

Well now I'm sure football stans would call him a punk. Its sad he took this long to see that getting into a car crash every few seconds wasn't worth it.

Dude just trying to collect a check with that lawsuit

 

[Joe Money]

Damn, and he's only 36.

 

[curryshotta]

as long as people in the south love football the way they do

it aint going nowhere

 

[futureshock]

I don't have any kids yet, but I'll never let them football and hopefully that's how a sport that doesn't take care of their athletes dies.

The NFL had a good run, but unless they get their shit together there's gonna be more and more parents who opt out of sports like football into something more safe.

Soccer & Lacrosse can be just as bad.

New study shows women's lacrosse as the No. 2 sport for concussions behind only football
http://usatodayhss.com/2015/new-stu...-2-sport-for-concussions-behind-only-football

 

[woodchuck]

Soccer & Lacrosse can be just as bad.

New study shows women's lacrosse as the No. 2 sport for concussions behind only football
http://usatodayhss.com/2015/new-stu...-2-sport-for-concussions-behind-only-football

I can believe it. Those broads be knocking the shit out of each other. Some of them play like they have unresolved issues!

 

[bgbtylvr]

Look at the afterlife of many boxers. They get hit harder and more often directly to the head than football players. I don't spar like i used to. I tell them mothefuckers I'm just in to work on shit and stay sharp. All that hard sparring shit for the dudes who want to go pro. Football players don't have half the brain damage fighters do. I'd rather limp than not be able to speak or remember shit.

 

[Non-StopJFK2TAB]

Look at the afterlife of many boxers. They get hit harder and more often directly to the head than football players. I don't spar like i used to. I tell them mothefuckers I'm just in to work on shit and stay sharp. All that hard sparring shit for the dudes who want to go pro. Football players don't have half the brain damage fighters do. I'd rather limp than not be able to speak or remember shit.

Such poor choices.

 

[IT IS WHAT IT IS]

I will forever say that this lawsuit is bullshit. Where are the law suits against high school and college athletics? That's where the "problem" starts.
As a former high school and college player, I can say that I knew the risks when I played. I'm likely going to need my knees replaced and back surgery, but I wouldn't change it. I fucking loved the sport.

That is what's up and real. Nobody is forcing them to play but they are expecting to be compensated for their choices?!