Page 2 of 2
Re: Concussions
Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2017 2:08 pm
by Steve of phpBB
mister d wrote:I guess the counter argument is obvious too, but I'm curious where people fall on ethics vs proprietary advantages. I assume I know how the vote would go here, but I wonder how sports fans in general would react if they found out some ethically bankrupt team, lets say the Pittsburgh Penguins, have been sitting on data or technology for the last two seasons that could have prevented dozens of concussions.
I don't think there would really be great proprietary advantages. It seems that players' careers just aren't that long, and they move around to other teams too often, for there to be a big competitive advantage in keeping such data or technology secret. Plus, even there were a big competitive advantage, that wouldn't necessarily translate to a huge monetary one.
Re: Concussions
Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2017 8:27 am
by rass
Re: Concussions
Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2018 4:45 pm
by sancarlos
Re: Concussions
Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2019 1:28 pm
by rass
The Athletic article on Sidney Crosby's "lost season" is pretty good.
Re: Concussions
Posted: Mon Aug 26, 2019 11:50 am
by wlu_lax6
So not only does your head get groggy, you get depression, but link to ED....
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/26/concuss ... study.html
Re: Concussions
Posted: Mon Aug 26, 2019 12:11 pm
by Ryan
Re: Concussions
Posted: Mon Aug 26, 2019 12:31 pm
by Steve of phpBB
Ryan wrote: ↑Mon Aug 26, 2019 12:11 pm
Heh.
Re: Concussions
Posted: Tue Oct 29, 2019 8:58 am
by DaveInSeattle
When people ask me why I stopped watching football a few years ago, I can point them to this article:
A Lineman Became a Doctor, but Dementia Made Him Retire. He’s Only 42.
He always knew he would get on with life. He was a top student, and in time he became an obstetrics & gynecology doctor, delivering so many babies, maybe 3,000, a gregarious guy who remembered birthdays and who could make a nervous expectant mother grin. He had a beautiful home and a wife and a young daughter and a teenage son. He was a son of western Pennsylvania and life was grand.
He shakes his head: Until it wasn’t.
It was about seven years ago that the now 42-year-old Abraham said he began to notice his temper flaring without reason. His memory and judgment became flickering lamps. In a panic, he began a medical trek that ended with an inconceivable diagnosis: neurodegenerative dementia.
Re: Concussions
Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2021 3:08 pm
by sancarlos
Could’ve also put this in the Racism thread.
Re: Concussions
Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2021 3:19 pm
by EnochRoot
Holy shit. How was this still a thing?
Re: Concussions
Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2021 3:51 pm
by DSafetyGuy
EnochRoot wrote: ↑Wed Jun 02, 2021 3:19 pm
Holy shit. How was this still a thing?
Money, as in the NFL would pay out less of it.
Re: Concussions
Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2021 4:11 pm
by sancarlos
DSafetyGuy wrote: ↑Wed Jun 02, 2021 3:51 pm
EnochRoot wrote: ↑Wed Jun 02, 2021 3:19 pm
Holy shit. How was this still a thing?
Money, as in the NFL would pay out less of it.
Sure looks like racism is a bigger driver than money, in this case.
Re: Concussions
Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2021 4:59 pm
by mister d
I'm sure they would have been REVERSE RACIST if that baseline saved them hundreds of millions instead. That it worked out this way was more of a have your cake and eat it too result.