Antwan Randel-El can't walk down stairs

[Benton]

(01-20-2016, 06:13 PM)guyofthetiger Wrote: Do you think miners with lung disease at an early age know the risk? Pays well so people put up with it. Just like football.

Pretty much.

My dad worked in a chemical plant as an operator. He made good money, exceptional for a guy with only a high school degree. Now he has breathing treatments twice daily.


Most people — if given the option — will accept a significant amount of danger or loss to feed their family. And in the case of guys coming from poverty, which a lot of NFL athletes do, they'll accept a lot to know their parents, kids, wife, siblings, etc., won't have to worry about things, if only for a while.

As far as the topic, until you change the equipment, it's not going to change. The helmet is designed to keep players from breaking their neck/getting a head injury, but it ends up causing a harder impact. Outside of going the rugby route and getting rid of helmets and pads, I don't see helmet related injuries really going down.

And you can tweek the rules all you want. It doesn't matter. Look at the last Steelers/Bengals game as an example of why. Multipl helmet shots injuring players and no one agrees what's legal and what's not. And in the end, if any of them are legal, you're still going to have injuries.