05-24-2020, 01:14 PM
(05-24-2020, 12:44 PM)jfkbengals Wrote: Well, it already is bastardized. The original game was going to be outlawed due to the number of deaths incurred, so they changed it to make it safer.
And those changes worked. The made drastic changes to make the game safer.
The problem is the changes made recently have failed to make any real impact in actual player safety. There's been a few different studies that support this. Injuries have not gone decreased, concussions have not either. These half-measures taken by the league seem to be have been made more for appearance than actual results.
Because the reality is if you truly want to confront issues like CTE then you're going to have to do so much more. But the league can't or won't do that, because it would completely change the sport. Which is what they did back in the day, the completely changed it.
I just think they either need to do enough to actually make the game safe, or leave it alone. These rules changes are really hurting the game without any real benefit.
