Dow Jones. By Reed Albergotti and Shirley S. To Read the Full Story. Subscribe Sign In. Continue reading your article with a WSJ membership. Larger helmets with more padding do exist and the players by in large refuse to wear them. At some point you have to quit blaming the league and take responsibility for your own head.
Exactly, a sports radio announcer said like 8 years ago that they should make defenders wear less padding. If they wore less padding they would actually try to tackle people correctly. This is one of those theories that, on the face of it, seems to make sense but with so much at risk, I think more research ought to be done before doing away with helmets. I played football from ages and rugby from and have never had a concussion.
Take the helmet off, there is going to be much less leading with the head. That being said, the NFL will never remove helmets, because the games would be slower and less exciting without them.
The first helmet was invented by a player that had been kicked in the head too many times, so you still have the same original problems to deal with.
I believe someone just did a study about mortality rates in football in response to this idea. Turns out that before helmets, plenty of people died playing football. What would you rather have? A death every year or slightly more concussions? You want to prevent concussions, just put the flags on. Its the size and speed of theses guys, helmet or no helmet concussions happen with that type of contact. Where is their protection then? As Hines points out, they can lead with their shoulder pads to the head.
Maybe they allow more contact between defenders and receivers? This is such an incredibly short sighted opinion. Most concussions happen when the players head hits the ground after a tackle or sack, now please tell me, just what is going to happen to all those heads that are slamming against the ground with no helmets on???!!! My father has a permanently deviated septum because of repeated broken noses from football.
In fact, he had one of the very first face masks that at the time were only allowed to help prevent repeated injuries. As well, the increase in numbers can be attributed to bigger, faster, stronger players. Ever see the bodies of football players from the 70s? They look like they never saw a gym. Ever see the GYMS themselves from the 60s and 70s? Compare both to what we have today. A lot more players died from injuries in the early days of football before modern helmets were worn by the players.
This has dropped to the single digits most years for all levels. Taking away safety equipment that is clearly saving lives is not the answer. This is the kind of stupidity that results from a discussion where the premise is all wrong. Hines Ward is flat wrong. Ward needs to shut up. How about we leave well enough alone. Maybe we should stop having police officers patrol bad neighborhoods.
They might get hurt. Is it just me or does it seem like there are more concussions now with all the protection rules. On almost half the passing plays it seems everyone lowers their head, offensive and defensive players both, just before the collision. As a receiver your natural instinct is to get low to avoid the pain in the chest. The comment is more about how ridiculous all this convo about eliminating concussions really is.
Others will disagree, of course. Senior receiver Ben Edwards lost his helmet while breaking a tackle during an early-game completion. He continued running with the ball, and was injured as he was brought down.
Edwards suffered a concussion, Rocco said on Monday, and a head laceration that required nine stitches. But you would if you were concerned about something. It happened six times. If you have to create a rule to prevent a problem, dig deeper to find ways to keep the problem from happening in the first place.
Do you like this post? Give Lean Blitz a follow and a like! Yes, I saw a play blown dead on Saturday… ball carrier had his helmet ripped off by the facemask. Blown dead… plus 15 yards for the penalty. It seems that stopping the ball carrier might provide a bit of an incentive to, if beaten on a play, stick a paw up and hope for a facemask, sort of like college DBs have an incentive to interfere on a pass in the end zone.
This illustrates another reason using rules and policy for getting rid of a problem — it creates even more problems. UCLA Sports. Plaschke: Rams adding divisive, underproductive Odell Beckham Jr.
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