03-17-2016, 04:58 PM
davester wrote:
As far as all athletic endeavors not being completely safe, that is absurd...american football is vastly more dangerous (to the brain especially) than almost every other sport. That is a false equivalency if I've ever heard one.
just wondering what is the basis for that statement? For youth sports, at least related to concussions from what I have seen, football is on the list with hockey, of course, but so is cheerleading and equestrian. And soccer. There really isn't a significant gap between the sports at the top, they all have a risk of concussions. For younger kids, bikes and scooters are above sports.
The NFL and even college football are potentially completely different, with small sample sizes for study, length of time playing to get there, huge bodies moving fast, and a potentially pervasive history of steroid and drug abuse.