re: #71 A Mom Anon

People may have been turned off by the stories of CTE and other serious injuries. And not just that.

A couple weeks ago I saw a report about Aaron Hernandez’s head trauma. They showed his brain scans. It’s horrifying. He had been playing since middle school, his brain was shrunken and whole sections were destroyed. I cried when I saw that. If I had a son who loved football, I just don’t think I could support his playing. Not knowing what I know. And maybe people are just sick of all of it. The injuries, treating players like royalty and letting them get away with shitty things, the crappy tax deals for stadiums and the insane ticket prices, all of it.

Poor Breitbart Assholes, it’s always an assault on their manhood. Snowflakes.

CTE is the reason I stopped watching football. Can’t cheer a game where any hit - especially a concussion could doom a player to CTE, which messes with their brain chemistry/structure to the point of mental illness and personality changes that could lead to death or other serious harms/issues.

We saw a hit just like that last night - a Patriots player got laid out in a clean hit. Guy was blindsided and was knocked flat out.

I can’t in good consicence cheer that. I appreciate the athleticism involved in the game, but the consequences of 300 pounders traveling 4.5 (or 200 pound players going even faster) at each other is impossible to ignore. It’s physics - the body in motion stays in motion - and the brain sloshes around after every hit.