Tim Krumrie wants you to read his story about coping with brain trauma

[*Wyche'sWarrior*]

(12-08-2017, 06:04 PM)BengalHawk62 Wrote: For you Wyche.....I'm saying old age. 



I'm 40 and I can't say I have a bad memory or anything like that.  I've gotten headaches more as I've aged, but is that because of age and not anything football related?  I don't know.  There is one game I got my bell rung pretty bad.  I don't even remember playing the 2nd half.  The coaches called my folks on our way back home and told them to watch me for signs of being concussed.  I guess at half time they asked me what team we were playing that night and I couldn't tell them the answer.  But they gave me some smelling salts and sent me back out in the 2nd half.  ???  I know I've decided I'm not going to push my new born son into playing tackle football when he gets old enough.  If he wants to, that fine, but not until junior high.  Kids, here are starting to play tackle football with pads and helmets on at around the 2nd grade.  That's just crazy to me.  There's no way I'm pushing my kid into that.

Hey now, I'm only one year older than you pal.....lol.  My brother is 51, and he has smelled the salts quite a few times.  I only had it once myself.....got blindsided on a kickoff.  My legs were still moving in a running motion when I hit the ground.   I remember the game, so I obviously wasn't hit as hard as you were, but I had a helluva time finding the sidelines. Hell man, we used to knock the shit out of each other in practice, can't count the times I've seen stars.

I've been in three pretty violent car crashes though, one of them quite vicious, ejection, the works.  You combine 10 years of football, and that, kinda makes you wonder.

I started playing at 8, so, third grade.  I have two girls, but if I had a son, I'd be just like you.....maybe even wait until high school.