Injuries can happen in nearly every sport.

I'll also add they are taking this shit VERY serious on the youth levels. If a kid is even suspected of a concussion, he's done for the game. Full stop. Then you have to take him to your primary care doctor for a full evaluation and get release note. Then they have to pass a series of tests(aka concussion protocol with the team trainer) before they can even resume practice.

Does persistent sub-concussive head trauma happen in nearly every sport?

It's funny(or I guess maybe not, depending on your humor) looking back on my peewee days. When I was in the 10/11 age group or around there, they used to line us up in two lines facing eachother and the only drill was to basically smash our helmets into eachother as hard as possible when the whistle blew. Still not quite sure the purpose of it but it may explain some of my posting.

Didn't know Bob was a football guy. That's good to know. Makes like 5 of us left here now.

Football is life. Baseball is my first love but I rarely watch games that don't involve the Cubs or Sox during the regular season. When it comes to the NFL I would watch the Browns and Jaguars.

Football is life. Baseball is my first love but I rarely watch games that don't involve the Cubs or Sox during the regular season. When it comes to the NFL I would watch the Browns and Jaguars.

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Most of the brains being saved will grow up to not be worth much anyway

We also could steal from baseball and start importing players who are actually good rather than relying on the Schwarber-types.

Agreed.

Though, pittmike and conns seem to think that 12 year olds doing 7 on 7 will make the NFL nearly impossible to operate but they didn't really say anything besides "Wrong" which was a strong argument.

uh, you do something else like 90% of the student body?

I'll also add they are taking this shit VERY serious on the youth levels. If a kid is even suspected of a concussion, he's done for the game. Full stop. Then you have to take him to your primary care doctor for a full evaluation and get release note. Then they have to pass a series of tests(aka concussion protocol with the team trainer) before they can even resume practice.

It's funny(or I guess maybe not, depending on your humor) looking back on my peewee days. When I was in the 10/11 age group or around there, they used to line us up in two lines facing eachother and the only drill was to basically smash our helmets into eachother as hard as possible when the whistle blew. Still not quite sure the purpose of it but it may explain some of my posting.

For whatever reason hispanic folks don't take well to football. They're either running into their teammates's asses and fumbling or murdering multiple people and not being allowed to play anymore.

I didn't have much more time than that but here goes. I have watched my son play 7 on 7 the last four years in the HS program that exists when "football" is not officially happening. There is literally nothing for linemen, running backs, tight ends and linebackers (as it pertains for the run defense) to learn or even do. You are only gaining advantages for QB, WR and defensive back play for the most part.

Tell that to this hero!

http://www.espn.com/nfl/player/_/id/167 ... villanueva

Most of the brains being saved will grow up to not be worth much anyway

As far as helmets go there seems to be some accepted opinion that it cannot help with the concussion problem. I think that is not entirely true. There are likely ways to lessen the impact of major hits and perhaps prevent the impact of lesser hits.

Think about it from a physics angle. Concussion happens when your brain slides in the cranium up against the inside of the skull causing trauma. If you run at a given speed and smash your forehead into a wall there is a calculable impact which in turn sets the brain in motion at some rate. Using a standard helmet and doing the same you have very little "give" in the helmet to change the equation much.

Now if you have some new technology in the helmet that provides some element of reducing the rate at which the head hits the wall (a cushioning effect) that should in turn lessen the impact of brain against skull. In some cases the brain may not hit the skull at all. Another thought is a shattering like helmet which dissipates energy of impact.

None of that changes the fact that people should not hit head to head or any other factors but in theory helmet improvement for this case should not be impossible.

It hurts lineman and running backs no doubt. Luckily, those are two of the easier positions to catch up on and they would have 3-6 years before they got to the NFL to learn. Linebackers will be fine. They may not be as big and the style of both offense and defense would be effected but they can still play. I wouldn't be worried about tight ends at all. There are NFL tight ends that didn't even play college football including some hall of fame players.

The thing to keep in mind is that we aren't going from 7 on 7 to the NFL. You let them play either as seniors in high school or once they turn 18. You then let them play in college. If it's really a problem, then you have an NFL "rookie league" to give them another year to prepare.

The problem is that the only way to do it would be to basically have the helmet crumple like a car.

College gets impacted more than NFL btw. Not my job to worry about them but how the hell would they even rate potential kids at non 7 on 7 useful positions? You would not have enough kids in most schools to do 18 and over only HS football.