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<blockquote data-quote="HardRightEdge" data-source="post: 687771"><p>I was trying to keep the discussion confined to concussions in the past vs. now, only because the risks in the past were not recognized.</p><p></p><p>What you say has been well known in the past just as it is now. Limping through later life was an accepted occupational hazard. All the players have had to do since forever is see the old timers at 50 and 60 years of age amble on the field in pregame recognition ceremonies. You had guys like Namath and Ditka serve as poster boys of those risks. What wasn't know is what happened to the guys who not there because they were deceased or too mentally impaired to participate. It wasn't so long ago that talking about cancer or senility in the family carried a social stigma. You just didn't talk about those things and the challenges they presented. Of course those stigmas still exist, but to a lesser degree.</p><p></p><p>But your point is well taken. We're Romans watching a sanitized version of the Coliseum, albeit the competitors are playing for large bags of money and not just their lives.</p><p></p><p>Football was my favorite sport. For many years I thought if I dedicated myself with diet, weights and speed training I could have gone further. I don't regret that now, knowing I have perhaps decades of cogent thought behind me and in front of me that I may not have had otherwise. And today, as I write this, my love of the game is not what it once was because of concussion science and I don't know how long it will remain a guilty pleasure.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HardRightEdge, post: 687771"] I was trying to keep the discussion confined to concussions in the past vs. now, only because the risks in the past were not recognized. What you say has been well known in the past just as it is now. Limping through later life was an accepted occupational hazard. All the players have had to do since forever is see the old timers at 50 and 60 years of age amble on the field in pregame recognition ceremonies. You had guys like Namath and Ditka serve as poster boys of those risks. What wasn't know is what happened to the guys who not there because they were deceased or too mentally impaired to participate. It wasn't so long ago that talking about cancer or senility in the family carried a social stigma. You just didn't talk about those things and the challenges they presented. Of course those stigmas still exist, but to a lesser degree. But your point is well taken. We're Romans watching a sanitized version of the Coliseum, albeit the competitors are playing for large bags of money and not just their lives. Football was my favorite sport. For many years I thought if I dedicated myself with diet, weights and speed training I could have gone further. I don't regret that now, knowing I have perhaps decades of cogent thought behind me and in front of me that I may not have had otherwise. And today, as I write this, my love of the game is not what it once was because of concussion science and I don't know how long it will remain a guilty pleasure. [/QUOTE]
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