Ya, we already knew about the traitor.
Elbows up, our defense doesn’t care whether he’s a star player or not.
The not so great one
The Great Once
Seriously this is really old news.
People in Edmonton have been literally shitting on his statue. We know about the traitor.
Americans don’t know that Canada already knows
I have a groundbreaking theory about prolonged playing of contact sports, traumatic brain injury, and far right politics… You generally don’t hear these headlines about tennis/soccer players, or nearly as often about basketball/baseball players.
As someone who enjoys American football and hockey, it’s a damn shame that we still paint athletes as role models.
I know it’s funny to insinuate that brain damage caused people to become conservatives, but I think we should accept that the culture around aggressive, full-contact sports tends to be conservative to start with. Surround yourself with that culture day-in, day-out, and before long you find yourself ingrained in more than just their favorite sports.
But I mean, that doesn’t mean it’s not the brain damage. A thing can be more than one thing.
Just look at Fetterman. Had a stroke, and he’s now conservative.
That’s true, it’s a combination of factors. A big part is the insular nature of the team and coaching as you go higher up the ladder. If you’re not thanking God in your post-win interview you’re a “locker room problem”; if you want a coaching job after you retire you’ve gotta be on good terms with the good ol’ boys network.
I do think that the brain damage does compound heavily though. I know Mormons who get out and become well adjusted people later in life; the semi-pro football players I know get more irrational and violent as the CTE sets in.
Football (soccer as you call it) is so underrated in this respect it’s not even funny, heading the ball is extremely dangerous for the brain in the long term. Not to mention head clashes in challenges etc. Granted, most injuries are in the lower limbs but still.
Footballers have a much high chance of developing and dying from ALS.
Basketball as well. Elbows inside are real and thumping opponents is normal.
As opposed to victims of the never ending human thirst for blood sports
Oh we all know about the Great Once.
Who fucking cares. Old rich guy likes Trump. Shocker.
You’re like 2 years late
We know. Not that it matters. He moved to the US decades ago, anyway…so they can keep him.
and they can keep his shitty grape juice and industrial solvent whisky.
Gretzky has always been that way. I’m not sure why anyone respects him anymore.
He skates by
He was at the inauguration, we know.
We know.
We know. He is a dickhead. His “whiskey” is shit, his “wine” tastes like his “whiskey” (also shit) and he is shit.
That’s the guy that ripped off the Michael Scott with the quote “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take”
Why does it matter? He chose america willingly and they welcomed him a long time ago. They say never meet your heroes but the internet makes that almost impossible.
CTE is a hell of a series of traumatic brain injuries yes
I’ll spam this fact wherever I see comments on CTE.
CTE is not correlated with the number of concussions. It’s correlated with years of exposure to repetitive minor hits. It’s a very important distinction because the NFL (and every other professional sport with blows to the head) is trying to push the narrative that concussion is the boogeyman, so that if they can reduce concussion (and they can), they can declare their hands clean from CTE. The only way to reduce CTE is drastic changes to the game.
While I have no doubt they’d skin their grandmother’s alive to save a buck, reducing concussions and head injuries is straight up just a good thing. Having concussion protocols etc and taking these decisions out of the hands of people motivated to win at all costs and into the hands of medical professionals is a good if incomplete step
Yeah, agreed that reducing concussion is definitely a good thing. Especially strict rules around return to play after concussion cause that’s when you can really do damage.
My problem is that scientists can say: “CTE is a problem in the NFL.” And then the NFL can say “we are addressing it by offering goofy helmet coverings, reducing punt return collision speed, and using better protocols for post concussion”. Then no one is pointing out that none of those changes address CTE at all, and the NFL knows that. In reality, reducing CTE would involve changing the sport in ways that the fans would not like.
I think you’ve pretty sussinctly explained exactly why they are doing what they are doing
We know this from military deployments. Even office staff near bombed regions get TBI, and certainly civilians will get brain damage from forces traveling through them.
NFL players die 25 years younger than national average, a combination of brain injury and long term effects of steroids.
Wayne wasn’t the subject of very many hits in hockey. CTE isn’t a factor that you can blame. As it goes with shit stains, everyone around him probably has the CTE as they were collateral damage, guys like Dave Semenko (it’s never been publically disclosed but he was post-mortem investigated for it after dying of cancer) or Marty McSorley (who is not dead but he states he has memory loss and other symptoms).
I get it, but are you a fan of hockey? Like did you watch the Gretzky years specifically? You’ll know what I’m referring to, if you did.
CTE is definitely a real bitch though, btw.
Wayne Gretzky was probably the most protected player in hockey history…
