you and your Old.White.Male ilk in taking for granted the unearned white power you blithely wield and abuse
I see that nuance isn't your long suit either. Do you pass this incoherent racist bigotry on to your kids and grandkids?
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you and your Old.White.Male ilk in taking for granted the unearned white power you blithely wield and abuse
In many sitcoms, the opening scene will present a small, stand-alone story. The episode may return to this story at the very end, or it may not. It doesn't matter. The actual theme of the episode isn't to be found in this opening scene; it serves only to segue into the main story which follows, which represents the narrative the writers actually want to explore in the episode.it is interesting that the main point of the OP seems to be a complaint about the NFL rather than explore the implications of Hernandez's CTE. https://concussionfoundation.org/CTE-resources/what-is-CTE
Every person diagnosed with CTE has one thing in common: a history of repetitive hits to the head.1 CTE is most often found in contact sport athletes and military veterans, likely because these are some of the only roles in modern life that involve purposeful, repetitive hits to the head. CTE has been found in individuals whose primary exposure to head impacts was through tackle football (200+ cases confirmed at the VA-BU-CLF Brain Bank), the military (25+ cases), hockey (20+ cases), boxing (15+ cases, 50+ globally), rugby (5+ cases), soccer (5+ cases, 10+ globally), pro wrestling (5+ cases), and, in fewer than three cases each, baseball, basketball, intimate partner violence, and individuals with developmental disorders who engaged in head banging behaviors.
What does CTE do to people?
Early symptoms of CTE usually appear in a patient's late 20s or 30s, and affect a patient's mood and behavior. Some common changes seen include impulse control problems, aggression, depression, and paranoia.
As the disease progresses, some patients may experience problems with thinking and memory, including memory loss, confusion, impaired judgment, and eventually progressive dementia. Cognitive symptoms tend to appear later than mood and behavioral symptoms, and generally first appear in a patient’s 40s or 50s. Patients may exhibit one or both symptom clusters. In some cases, symptoms worsen with time (even if the patient suffers no additional head impacts). In other cases, symptoms may be stable for years before worsening.
Hernandez plausibly seems to be a victim as well as a criminal.
Hard to think of anything more antithetical to the mission of educational institutions than creating long term brain injuries for students. Institutions such as the University of Chicago dropped football in the 1920s. They look prescient. But many, many others continue to make HUGE investments in football. Why does the support for football remain so strong? Perhaps the fundamental lesson that football teaches is the achievement of victory for the team is more important than even the life and health of the individual. The individual literally sacrifices their body for the team to win. If the sport produced no casualties then no real sacrifice would be possible. Many fans continue to feel ennobled by the sacrifice and feel that the lessons are ennobling for others. They may not let their kids play but they will continue to buy tickets to the show and to demand that the show goes on.
it is interesting that the main point of the OP seems to be a complaint about the NFL rather than explore the implications of Hernandez's CTE. https://concussionfoundation.org/CTE-resources/what-is-CTE
Every person diagnosed with CTE has one thing in common: a history of repetitive hits to the head.1 CTE is most often found in contact sport athletes and military veterans, likely because these are some of the only roles in modern life that involve purposeful, repetitive hits to the head. CTE has been found in individuals whose primary exposure to head impacts was through tackle football (200+ cases confirmed at the VA-BU-CLF Brain Bank), the military (25+ cases), hockey (20+ cases), boxing (15+ cases, 50+ globally), rugby (5+ cases), soccer (5+ cases, 10+ globally), pro wrestling (5+ cases), and, in fewer than three cases each, baseball, basketball, intimate partner violence, and individuals with developmental disorders who engaged in head banging behaviors.
What does CTE do to people?
Early symptoms of CTE usually appear in a patient's late 20s or 30s, and affect a patient's mood and behavior. Some common changes seen include impulse control problems, aggression, depression, and paranoia.
As the disease progresses, some patients may experience problems with thinking and memory, including memory loss, confusion, impaired judgment, and eventually progressive dementia. Cognitive symptoms tend to appear later than mood and behavioral symptoms, and generally first appear in a patient’s 40s or 50s. Patients may exhibit one or both symptom clusters. In some cases, symptoms worsen with time (even if the patient suffers no additional head impacts). In other cases, symptoms may be stable for years before worsening.
Hernandez plausibly seems to be a victim as well as a criminal.
Hard to think of anything more antithetical to the mission of educational institutions than creating long term brain injuries for students. Institutions such as the University of Chicago dropped football in the 1920s. They look prescient. But many, many others continue to make HUGE investments in football. Why does the support for football remain so strong? Perhaps the fundamental lesson that football teaches is the achievement of victory for the team is more important than even the life and health of the individual. The individual literally sacrifices their body for the team to win. If the sport produced no casualties then no real sacrifice would be possible. Many fans continue to feel ennobled by the sacrifice and feel that the lessons are ennobling for others. They may not let their kids play but they will continue to buy tickets to the show and to demand that the show goes on.
If AH was a very nice kid before football and a monster after then CTE seems like a pretty reasonable explanation for the change. Maybe there were other factors too? Is anyone (besides the NFL) particularly vested in the thesis that CTE is not to blame?It's interesting to me that Hernandez was supposedly a very nice kid when he was in his teens. Do I think CTE made him become the monster he was? No...but I'd bet if he had a "severe" case of it, then it probably did contribute to his behavioral problems.
His father died when Hernandez was a teenager. Precedes a lot of people abandoning their moorings.If AH was a very nice kid before football and a monster after then CTE seems like a pretty reasonable explanation for the change. Maybe there were other factors too? Is anyone (besides the NFL) particularly vested in the thesis that CTE is not to blame?
Maybe. For as much as we know about PTSD we still know virtually nothing about it. For instance, we are still (for the large part), not able to discern a case of real PTSD and a case of temporary coping with change and trauma. The statistics on the number of PTSD disability claims filed by veterans is repugnant (at least it is to me) given that only about 10% of forces have ever seen combat.All that is true, and with nothing more than crazy guesswork on my part, I suspect there may be some relation between PTSD and CTE. Not the same disease, but similar.
And they do this in the best Bond films.In many sitcoms, the opening scene will present a small, stand-alone story. The episode may return to this story at the very end, or it may not. It doesn't matter. The actual theme of the episode isn't to be found in this opening scene; it serves only to segue into the main story which follows, which represents the narrative the writers actually want to explore in the episode.
His father died when Hernandez was a teenager. Precedes a lot of people abandoning their moorings.
True, but how many people become that untethered from their moorings? He was an honor student in HS and was able to graduate HS early. He also won the Pop Warner Inspiration to Youth Award. I agree that his father's death probably had something to do with it, but CTE also may have played a significant role in his behavioral changes.
We'll never know.
And they do this in the best Bond films.
Look, the point is, I think it’s on Archie to save the NFL.
I'm convinced SHF played too much football as a youngster.I knew your brain was wired differently, but this post explains a lot.
I wonder how it would affect perceptions if it turned out that OJ Simpson suffers from chronic traumatic encephalopathy.
Increasingly few parents allow their kids to play football. This means the game is already beginning to end, even though the NFL has never been richer.
Football is ingrained into my earliest memories, and like IU basketball, it's embedded in the architecture of my life with family and friends. But the NFL is a greedy, stupid, dishonest organization comprised of owners whose collective decision to pay Roger Goodell $40 million/year disproves any notion that rich people are intrinsically bright.
I'm still watching though.
You'd think at $40M/year, dude could find a good suit that fits.32 Billionaires pooling together to give a scapegoat 40 million dollars a year is dumb? They get off scot-free while they parade Goodell out there to enforce their rules and be the fall man.
Methinks it's a good investment by them in the end.
I'm convinced SHF played too much football as a youngster.
The President has even more money and can't find a good barber.You'd think at $40M/year, dude could find a good suit that fits.
The Sociopath-in-Chief speaks about efforts to address the appalling incidence of chronic traumatic encephalopathy:
Regarding his nostalgia for the dangerous hits that college and pro football have been trying to take out of the game, Trump said: “Today if you hit too hard—15 yards! Throw him out of the game! They had that last week. I watched for a couple of minutes. Two guys, just really, beautiful tackle. Boom, 15 yards! The referee gets on television—his wife is sitting at home, she’s so proud of him. They’re ruining the game! They’re ruining the game. That’s what they want to do. They want to hit. They want to hit! It is hurting the game.
Go easy on dotards.The Sociopath-in-Chief speaks about efforts to address the appalling incidence of chronic traumatic encephalopathy:
Regarding his nostalgia for the dangerous hits that college and pro football have been trying to take out of the game, Trump said: “Today if you hit too hard—15 yards! Throw him out of the game! They had that last week. I watched for a couple of minutes. Two guys, just really, beautiful tackle. Boom, 15 yards! The referee gets on television—his wife is sitting at home, she’s so proud of him. They’re ruining the game! They’re ruining the game. That’s what they want to do. They want to hit. They want to hit! It is hurting the game.
He needs a lot more than a hair transplant.The President has even more money and can't find a good barber.