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Nah,
People still smoke, drive without seat belts, keep loaded guns in their homes, eat fried foods, ride motorcycles (with or without helmets), bungee jump and skydive.
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Will we continue to pay higher and higher insurance premiums to put kids on the field?
A better question... Will we be able to afford to put them out there?
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Nah,
People still smoke, drive without seat belts, keep loaded guns in their homes, eat fried foods, ride motorcycles (with or without helmets), bungee jump and skydive. Wrestled: 11 years (Kids/Jr High/High School) Played football: 6 years (Jr High/High School) Concussions: 0 that I can remember, although I did lose consciousness once in a HS football game. Stingers: Between wrestling and football, at least eight, and those stung. Smoke: No. Seat Belt: All the time. Loaded gun: Only have a competition pellet rifle, BB gun and a CO2 cartridge pistol (guess I could put my eye out). Fried foods: OK, you got me there. Motorcycle: Wife won't let me have one, although she did buy me a Harley Davidson check book cover about fifteen years ago. Bungee jump/sky dive: No thanks. Military service: Almost 22 years. I know that you didn't mention it, but this is something that I thought I would throw in (read about the Battle of Wanat in Afghanistan and Black Hawk Down doesn't seem so bad). Involvement in sports, especially wrestling and football: Priceless
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My list of every day risk taking behaviors was certainly not meant to be an exhaustive one! However, all of them I listed (IMO) have less value than playing a team sport that teaches young men about courage and being part of something bigger than themselves. Goodness knows we need more such opportunities for our young people.
Your military service is noted and greatly appreciated.
Will is right in one way; it is not the risk takers that end up doing away with the activity; it is those who insure the risk who squeeze it out of existence. Right now the cost of insurance for playing JH & HS football is not great; not near the cost of equipment and its upkeep. Will it change as we learn more about the long term affects of concussions? Possibly/Probably.
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Greg,
My beginning of the end story took shape in 1982. We had Norton in the first round of the State football playoffs my sophomore year. Norton had a beast of a running back (I think his name was Shane Wyatt?), who was also an outstanding wrestler. It was colder than the arctic that night and we came out two touch downs short of a victory, and one point (hard to get in football) from getting shutout. I appreciated your post, and just wanted to add a little color commentary to it. I also appreciate the competition that the NW part of the state brings to the party every year when it comes to sports.
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Norton had two very good running backs that year; Shane Wyatt and Stan Wahlmeier. And Shane was a beast on the football field and on the mat. What I find amazing in this whole concussion discussion is at the time I played our "state of the art" helmets were plastic shells with canvas suspension straps and NO padding except for along jaws. Yes, we did have face masks! We were coached to lead with our heads in both blocking and tackling. I remember my team mates and I getting our "bell rung" many times and on a regular basis but we never sat out of a game or practice because of the bells ringing in our heads. We now have football players sitting out on a regular basis because they are concussed--and their helmets are to the one I wore as a computer is to an abacus. Hmmm. . . upon further consideration maybe that is what is wrong with me.
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I just want to point out that an unloaded gun is not nearly as effective as a loaded gun when facing an intruder.
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Thanks for sharing, Doug.
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It could be if it has a bayonet.
Man this place has really slowed down.
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I'll liven it up a bit.......
Read on: Why I Carry a Gun
My old grandpa said to me 'Son, there comes a time in every man's life when he stops bustin' knuckles and starts bustin' caps and usually it's when he becomes too old to take an ass whoopin.'
I don't carry a gun to kill people. I carry a gun to keep from being killed.
I don't carry a gun to scare people. I carry a gun because sometimes this world can be a scary place.
I don't carry a gun because I'm paranoid. I carry a gun because there are real threats in the world..
I don't carry a gun because I'm evil. I carry a gun because I have lived long enough to see the evil in the World.
I don't carry a gun because I hate the government. I carry a gun because I understand the limitations of government..
I don't carry a gun because I'm angry. I carry a gun so that I don't have to spend the rest of my life hating myself for failing to be prepared.
I don't carry a gun because I want to shoot someone. I carry a gun because I want to die at a ripe old age in my bed, and not on a sidewalk somewhere tomorrow afternoon.
I don't carry a gun because I'm a cowboy. I carry a gun because, when I die and go to heaven, I want to be a cowboy.
I don't carry a gun to make me feel like a man. I carry a gun because men know how to take care of themselves and the ones They love.
I don't carry a gun because I feel inadequate. I carry a gun because unarmed and facing three armed thugs, I am inadequate.
I don't carry a gun because I love it. I carry a gun because I love life and the people who make it meaningful to Me.
Police protection is an oxymoron. Free citizens must protect themselves. Police do not protect you from crime, they usually just investigate the crime after it happens and then call someone in to clean up the mess.
Personally, I carry a gun because I'm too young to die and too old to take An ass whoopin'.....author unknown (but obviously brilliant)
************************* A LITTLE GUN HISTORY
In 1929, the Soviet Union established gun control. From 1929 to 1953, about 20 million dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up an exterminated. ------------------------------
In 1911, Turkey established gun control. From 1915 to 1917, 1.5 million Armenians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated. ------------------------------
Germany established gun control in 1938 and from 1939 to 1945, a total of 13 million Jews and others who were unable to defend themselves were rounded up and exterminated. ------------------------------
China established gun control in 1935. From 1948 to 1952, 20 million Political dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated ------------------------------
Guatemala established gun control in 1964. From 1964 to 1981, 100,000 Mayan Indians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated. ---- ------------- -------------
Uganda established gun control in 1970. From 1971 to 1979, 300,000 Christians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated. ------------------------------
Cambodia established gun control in 1956. From 1975 to 1977, one million Educated people, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated. -----------------------------
Defenseless people rounded up and exterminated in the 20th Century because of gun control: 56 million. ------------------------------
You won't see this data on the US evening news, or hear politicians disseminating this information.
Guns in the hands of honest citizens save lives and property and, yes, Gun-control laws adversely affect only the law-abiding citizens.
Take note my fellow Americans, before it's too late!
The next time someone talks in favor of gun control, please remind them of this history lesson.
With guns, we are 'citizens'. Without them, we are 'subjects'.
During WWII the Japanese decided not to invade America because they knew most Americans were ARMED!
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Interesting article. I knew it was a good hit in football when everything turned green. I never saw orange. i would look afterward and all of the other players were wearing green socks and green jersey's. that may explain some issues in my life today. Like yelling at officials...naw that it isnt it.
The older I get the better I was!
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i remember a great game against parsons, their big middle linebacker came on a blitz, man did he ring my bell. i played for the next quarter, blocking the man in the middle, and everyone sounding like they were at the end of a tunnel. then midway through the 3rd qurter we finally called my play " right 12 veer on two! right 12 veer on two!!". finally!! i thought, i get to block down on this dude, i am going to light him up!! "down...set...red, one, two, HUT" i take off completely smash #44, pancake, flatback, sloberknocker, blast his a$$. he's laying on the ground smiling at me, i said "what the F^%$ are you smiling at?" he said "you're offsides". i guess i still wasn't thinking clearly, i don't know.
i have had my bell rung, once in football, once in wrestling, and once in a fight. the only one i wasn't able to come back from right away was in wrestling. i think the difference between now and yesterday is the athletes, competing not the helmets.
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The helmets really don't help. The issue is the space between your brain and your skull. When you accelerate and decelerate your brain crashes inside of your skull. So, the faster you go and the greater the impact the more severe the crash is inside of your skull. Every year athletes are getting stronger and faster. The HS football field has become increasingly dangerous because you put men on the field against boys. Not a good mix.
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You will be reading more and more stories like this. To me it is alarming.
Researchers find brain trauma in Chris Henr
by Peter Keating ESPN The Magazine Archive Chris Henry, the Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver who died in a traffic accident last year, had chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) -- a form of degenerative brain damage caused by multiple hits to the head -- at the time of his death, according to scientists at the Brain Injury Research Institute, a research center affiliated with West Virginia University.
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"We would have been very happy if the results had been negative, but multiple areas of Chris Henry's brain showed CTE," said Julian Bailes, Director of BIRI and chairman of neurosurgery at West Virginia. Bailes and his colleagues plan to present results of their forensic examination at a news conference Monday afternoon.
Researchers have now discovered CTE in the brains of more than 50 deceased former athletes, including more than a dozen NFL and college players, pro wrestler Chris Benoit and NHL player Reggie Fleming.
Repeated blows to the head are the only known cause of CTE, researchers say. Concussive hits can trigger a buildup of toxic tau protein within the brain, which in turn can create damaging tangles and threads in the neural fibers that connect brain tissue. Victims can lose control of their impulses, suffer depression and memory loss, and ultimately develop dementia.
While the links between CTE and behavior are still being studied, many of the former athletes diagnosed with this form of brain damage died under unusual circumstances. Ex-Steeler Justin Strzelczyk, for example, was killed in 2004 after experiencing hallucinations, leading police on a high-speed chase for 40 miles before driving his car into a tanker truck. In 2007, Benoit strangled his wife and 7-year-old son, then put Bibles next to their bodies and hanged himself. Tom McHale, a guard for three NFL teams remembered by teammates as smart and dependable, sank into depression and died of a multiple-drug overdose in 2008.
Henry, 26, died on Dec. 17, 2009, a day after he either jumped or fell from the back of a moving pickup truck being driven by his fiancee, Loleini Tonga. The two had been involved in a dispute before Tonga got into the truck and Henry jumped in. One witness told reporters that Henry said, "If you take off, I'm going to jump off the truck and kill myself."
It is still not clear whether Henry jumped or fell, but as Tonga was driving at about 19 miles per hour, Henry crashed to the ground, suffering a fractured skull and massive head injuries. Police ruled the incident an accident. No traces of alcohol were found in a toxicology report, which didn't include any other tests for drugs. No charges were filed against Tonga.
After Henry's death, his mother, Carolyn Henry Glaspy, gave BIRI permission to examine his brain in detail.
CTE can be pinpointed only by autopsy, and even under regular post-mortem analysis, its effects are invisible. But using cell-staining techniques discovered and developed by Bennet Omalu, a neuropathologist who is co-director of BIRI, scientists can see the dangerous tau proteins and telltale tangles that characterize CTE. After staining, normal brain cells are blue and uncluttered under a microscope, while Henry's brain cells were discolored, clumpy and filled with threads, according to the researchers.
Now, Bailes -- and likely Henry's family, friends and fans -- will wonder if his neural damage contributed to his emotional volatility, including whatever problems he was suffering the day he died.
"I think it did," Bailes said. "Superimposed on the acute brain injuries Chris suffered when he died, there was fairly extensive damage throughout his brain that was fully consistent with CTE. This syndrome is expressed not only as changes in the brain, but clinically, as behavioral changes. And starting with Mike Webster, we have seen common threads in these cases: emotional disturbances, depression, failed personal relationships and businesses, suicidal thoughts, sometimes alcohol or drug use."
"I'm just trying to learn what happened, and what the situation was with Chris' brain," Glaspy said. "Whatever I can do to help anyone else who is going through this, I'm willing to do."
For years, the NFL and its affiliated researchers disputed a scientific evidence linking concussions to long-term brain damage. However, referring to reports of CTE among former players, NFL Head, Neck and Spine Committee co-chair Richard Ellenbogen told The New York Times earlier this month, "They aren't assertions or hype -- they are facts."
In April, the league announced a $1-million gift to the Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy at Boston University.
Henry, a native of Belle Chasse, La., played collegiately at West Virginia and was a third-round pick by the Bengals in 2005. He played for five tumultuous seasons in the NFL; he was arrested five times during his pro career, and NFL commissioner Roger Goodell suspended him for the first half of the 2007 season for violating the league's personal conduct policy.
But after Cincinnati brought him back in 2008, Henry vowed to put his substance abuse and anger management issues behind him. And he had been succeeding, according to teammates as well as Bengals officials.
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I worry about the long term health of our MMA participants.
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