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<blockquote data-quote="bke1984" data-source="post: 310720" data-attributes="member: 932"><p>The quality of the helmet doesn't matter all that much. Concussions and CTE occur because the brain slams against the interior wall of the scull. The only way to prevent them is to stop head collisions altogether. The helmet itself gives a false sense of security, so everyone leads with it so often. Even if you pad the hell out of it, the head suddenly stopping is going to cause a problem.</p><p></p><p>As messed up as it sounds, the CTE problem might be a lot less widespread if they went back to leather with no face masks....but there'd be a whole lot of other bad injuries. Bottom line is that football is dangerous. There's not really a way to sugar coat it and make it a safe game short of removing contact altogether. When they change equipment or rules to prevent one kind of injury they just create another. For example, there was a significant rise in the number of season ending knee injuries in the NFL in the seasons following the increased penalties for blows to the head.</p><p></p><p>To pose a question to the former players on this board. Knowing what the public knows now about CTE and concussions, would you still have played football?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bke1984, post: 310720, member: 932"] The quality of the helmet doesn't matter all that much. Concussions and CTE occur because the brain slams against the interior wall of the scull. The only way to prevent them is to stop head collisions altogether. The helmet itself gives a false sense of security, so everyone leads with it so often. Even if you pad the hell out of it, the head suddenly stopping is going to cause a problem. As messed up as it sounds, the CTE problem might be a lot less widespread if they went back to leather with no face masks....but there'd be a whole lot of other bad injuries. Bottom line is that football is dangerous. There's not really a way to sugar coat it and make it a safe game short of removing contact altogether. When they change equipment or rules to prevent one kind of injury they just create another. For example, there was a significant rise in the number of season ending knee injuries in the NFL in the seasons following the increased penalties for blows to the head. To pose a question to the former players on this board. Knowing what the public knows now about CTE and concussions, would you still have played football? [/QUOTE]
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