NYT: Soccer Causes Brain Trauma

I should've known before I even clicked the link.

 

If it will make a difference in the life of one child...

 

Way ahead of his time.

 

The "Precautionary Principle."

The reason why I have to pay like 150 percent of what I actually should pay for groceries each week.

 

Not even close. He was trolling, just as you are now.

 

Because he played it for laughs doesn't mean he was wrong or "trolling".

Was he right? Wasn't he saying what is now being said by many, including the New York Times?

 

What was the point? That people can get hurt playing soccer, too? Wow. Just revolutionary. The rest was just trolling.

 

Boom must have thought he hit the lottery when he realized he could troll soccer and the concussion issue with that link.

 

That was my problem with his post and YankeeFan's. This is e legitimate issue that deserves research and discussion. Perhaps the ban on headers is the right thing to do, but trolling like that will just set the discussion back and keep any serious conversation from happening.

 

It's all good, there's gonna be a pill soon.

http://www.khou.com/news/texas-news/Central-Texas-doctor-discovers-potential-concussion-treatment-240368451.html

http://pr-bg.com/content/view/318116/78/

 

Does watching soccer cause brain trauma, or do you have to actually play it?

 

Gee, Boom pushing a narrative with a thread title. What are the chances?

Read carefully. First off, either Branch or someone on the copy desk erred on the second sentence of the third graf, speculating that "Players sometimes collide or fall to the ground, but the most repeated blows to the head may come from the act of heading an airborne ball — to redirect it purposely — in games and practices."

"May"? Proof, please. Boom isn't an acceptable source.

Potentially more dangerous issues than heading a soccer ball? Head-to-head, head-to-ground and head-to-post issues. Posts and the ground don't tend to give way like an air-filled bladder does. And head-to-head can easily occur going for the ball in the air following either a goalkeeper punt or long throw-in.

And the fifth graf:

"Grange sustained a few memorable concussions, his parents said — falling hard as a toddler, being knocked unconscious in a high school game and once receiving 17 stitches in his head after an on-field collision in college."

That last one could well be an issue by itself. Nowhere in that excerpt did it mention that it occurred as a result of heading the ball.

Kids shouldn't focus on heading the ball … the other fundamentals and *gasp!* having fun should be bigger priorities at younger ages.