Playing Football Causes Brain Damage

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Dementia Risk Seen in Players in N.F.L. Study

A study commissioned by the National Football League reports that Alzheimer’s disease or similar memory-related diseases appear to have been diagnosed in the league’s former players vastly more often than in the national population — including a rate of 19 times the normal rate for men ages 30 through 49.

The N.F.L. has long denied the existence of reliable data about cognitive decline among its players. These numbers would become the league’s first public affirmation of any connection, though the league pointed to limitations of this study.

The findings could ring loud at the youth and college levels, which often take cues from the N.F.L. on safety policies and whose players emulate the pros. Hundreds of on-field concussions are sustained at every level each week, with many going undiagnosed and untreated.

A detailed summary of the N.F.L. study, which was conducted by the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research, was distributed to league officials this month.

The study has not been peer-reviewed, but the findings fall into step with several recent independent studies regarding N.F.L. players and the effects of their occupational head injuries.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/30/sports/f...entia.html?_r=1

[Kevin and 10]

Dementia Risk Seen in Players in N.F.L. Study

A study commissioned by the National Football League reports that Alzheimer’s disease or similar memory-related diseases appear to have been diagnosed in the league’s former players vastly more often than in the national population — including a rate of 19 times the normal rate for men ages 30 through 49.

The N.F.L. has long denied the existence of reliable data about cognitive decline among its players. These numbers would become the league’s first public affirmation of any connection, though the league pointed to limitations of this study.

The findings could ring loud at the youth and college levels, which often take cues from the N.F.L. on safety policies and whose players emulate the pros. Hundreds of on-field concussions are sustained at every level each week, with many going undiagnosed and untreated.

A detailed summary of the N.F.L. study, which was conducted by the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research, was distributed to league officials this month.

The study has not been peer-reviewed, but the findings fall into step with several recent independent studies regarding N.F.L. players and the effects of their occupational head injuries.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/30/sports/f...entia.html?_r=1

Watching football causes brain damage too.

[dalegg 143]

So then they become Refs. No big surprise.

[Peikko 1,575]

They should play soccer much better game and really is football, as it were

[Heracles 417]

NFL is just another attempt for a sport to be called the world bla bla bla, yet only Americans play it.

Come play rugby like real men, with no padding.

[Peikko 1,575]

Against the All Blacks, Raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[Marilyn. 340]

Canadians play football too

[Empress of Groovy 373]

Canadians play football too

Yeah, but with three downs! Now, that's just nutty!

NFL is just another attempt for a sport to be called the world bla bla bla, yet only Americans play it.

Come play rugby like real men, with no padding.

I'm sure you look stunning in a rugby get-up, BY.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Canadians play football too

Yeah, but with three downs! Now, that's just nutty!

NFL is just another attempt for a sport to be called the world bla bla bla, yet only Americans play it.

Come play rugby like real men, with no padding.

I'm sure you look stunning in a rugby get-up, BY.

Now, that is a man's sport.

Are those man boobs?

Edited October 1, 2009 by Lone Ranger