HonkyTonkWoman

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Cake day: July 9th, 2023

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  • Neither am I. Those are grown adults getting paid adult wages & who are given adult options to measure their risk vs reward.

    The second link doesn’t prove anything as long as football is still a billion dollar industry in this world. Study as many deceased brains as you like, doesn’t change the fact the living ones still like making millions of dollars smashing into one another.

    I’m just not willing to call for the dissolution of the NFL or NCAA Football programs because of the possibility.

    Football isn’t the enemy here. We put those folks on their pedestals & now everyone wants to blame them for being there.







  • Once again, this is not society’s responsibility, it’s on the parents.

    Don’t want your child to become a roided up rage monster with CTE? Don’t raise them up to believe that sports is their only way forward.

    Sports are a path for SOME individuals & those individuals have the CHOICE to decide what is right for them & what isn’t.

    Yes family pressure exists, but so does individual choice & the two conflict every day. Hell, I’ve got boobs & a vag despite my parents protestations & I’m better off for it.

    For many of those individuals they only see sports as their path forward. Want them to find a better path? Show it to them…

    But don’t judge them when they strike out down a path you don’t approve of, if you aren’t willing to provide a better solution.

    Sitting here saying football shouldn’t exist because people get hurt is just lazy hand wringing & judgemental nonsense.





  • Never got angry about any of this, you sure do like reading other people’s intentions incorrectly.

    And yes, you joined a thread talking about the efficacy of additional protection of football players & suggested that rather than embracing that protection as a step in the right direction, the sport just should just cease to exist.

    Ergo… You’re calling for dissolution of multi billion dollar industry because you don’t like it.

    And and… I’m not wrong about jousting. Jousting was blood sport plain & simple. No one ever tried to make jousting a safer sport. Not for the humans & not for the horses.

    Now, let’s just get this next part over with quickly…

    Please go ahead and call me a liar again so you can embrace smug sense of superiority & go on about your day.



  • Oh, I LOVE facts. This is the 3rd paragraph of your first fact:

    “The NFL player data should not be interpreted to suggest that 91.7 percent of all current and former NFL players have CTE, as brain bank samples are subject to selection biases. The prevalence of CTE among NFL players is unknown as CTE can only be definitively diagnosed after death. Repetitive head impacts appear to be the chief risk factor for CTE, which is characterized by misfolded tau protein that is unlike changes observed from aging,”

    Never said CTE wasn’t a thing, just pointed out that these padded covers are helping protect against it.