ARE says he regrets playing football instead of baseball

[JZursch]

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.co...ets-playing-football-says-game-may-disappear/

I don't agree with him on football being doomed...but it is sad to hear that he has trouble with stairs and has memory issues.

 

[NatHillIV]

This article is very disturbing and should give us all food for thought.

 

[sparkeyreturns]

http://www.post-gazette.com/sports/...cebook&utm_campaign=echobox&utm_term=Autofeed

 

[michnittlion]

This article is very disturbing and should give us all food for thought.

It is disturbing. 36 years old. 36. That's my age. I'm not a kid anymore, but I'm certainly nowhere near "old."

Randle-El should have 36 MORE years ahead of him before he even has to START worrying about memory problems and such.

I loved Randle-El as a player. I was at Penn State in 1999 and he was, BY FAR, the single best opposing player I ever saw. Single-handily kept Indiana in striking distance in a game against what was then the #1 defense in America (Lavar & Courtney Brown).

 

[VCHoosier]

That is scary stuff.

 

[farfan]

I don't know....the current version of football can't last much longer. As long as there is hard contact and heads hitting the ground, there is going to be a serious risk of brain injury.
Schools won't want to be associated with that and parents won't want their kids to be.
The risks are just lately becoming more clear to everyone.

 

[Euro]

Getting into a car is far more dangerous than playing football

 

[Chriselli]

I am surprised at all the dollars being thrown at facilities nationwide for a dying sport. The pipeline will dry up when high schools no longer accept the liability of fielding teams.

 

[RBB89]

Getting into a car is far more dangerous than playing football

Well there's some hard hitting analysis.

 

[turney333]

Getting into a car is far more dangerous than playing football

If your metric for "more dangerous" is immediate death, sure, cars are more dangerous. But in terms of chronic, debilitating injuries, football is immensely more dangerous

 

[napleslow]

Pro football may be at its nadir similar to boxing in the 70's. Boxing destroyed itself partially due to multiple championship belts but also seeing what happened to Ali was a big nail in the .......

 

[IUHartselCol]

Its so sad to think of the vibrant ARE struggling mentally and physically. What a great person, born with freakish physical ability. Football may indeed be in trouble when guys like him speak out against it. Best of luck to him and his family.

 

[Euro]

If your metric for "more dangerous" is immediate death, sure, cars are more dangerous. But in terms of chronic, debilitating injuries, football is immensely more dangerous

people are not debilitated in car wrecks when death does not occur????people are maimed by the minute on our roads, football does not even register in the whole scheme of things.

 

[BGunn]

people are not debilitated in car wrecks when death does not occur????people are maimed by the minute on our roads, football does not even register in the whole scheme of things.

You may be right but cars are a necessary evil. Football is not.

 

[Euro]

It is to keep my sanity on fall weekends

 

[CaliHoosier]

I didn't catch the whole interview with Dan Patrick this morning but my impression was ARE was backing off from the tone of the article a bit.

Unrelated, sort of, but did he miss any games at IU?

 

[farfan]

people are not debilitated in car wrecks when death does not occur????people are maimed by the minute on our roads, football does not even register in the whole scheme of things.

Are a higher percentage of car passengers injured while traveling than football players while playing?

 

[IUHartselCol]

Are a higher percentage of car passengers injured while traveling than football players while playing?

Finally, someone brings up the real point in this ridiculous argument. The % people hurt playing football is 1000x greater than riding in a car. Stupid comparison on any level. No defense.

 

[CaliHoosier]

Getting into a car is far more dangerous than playing football

Absolutely. I bump my head pretty good about twice a year getting into my car.

 

[VCHoosier]

Honestly I was so happy on my kids senior night for football this year bc I was starting to to stress out. Especially when they moved him from tight end to full back. I will not miss watching him play football.

 

[Euro]

Lots of kids playing football out there at pee wee level to NFL. I feel much safer that they will return in one piece than in a car in rush hour, hit by a drunk driver or poor road conditions. That's how I feel. Can you take a statement as presented or does it make you feel better to bash it.

 

[CaliHoosier]

Lots of kids playing football out there at pee wee level to NFL. I feel much safer that they will return in one piece than in a car in rush hour, hit by a drunk driver or poor road conditions. That's how I feel. Can you take a statement as presented or does it make you feel better to bash it.

I was making a joke, if that was directed at me. "As presented" your statement literally said "getting into a car." Now you are talking specifically about horrific incidents involving cars and comparing them to simple participation. If you are comparing the risk involved in mere participation in football you probably want to compare it to the risk involved in simple car trips.

I'm no statistician but I am fond of logic and that seems logical to me.

 

[Euro]

I also think climate change is a bunch of hooey! Have a nice evening

 

[Monday QB]

I also think climate change is a bunch of hooey! Have a nice evening

If man is destroying the polar ice caps with all the chlorofluorocarbons released into the air, and we weren't industrialized before the 1800's, then what caused the end of the last ice age? solar activity, of course, now, who might think that has a little more to with it than just co2?
Not to stray, but.....Mt. Pinatubo released more gasses into the atmosphere in 1 day than man has the entire time we have been on the planet, we need to ban volcanos!

 

[Go Hoosiers]

Well let's face it I think a lot of the guys that have the option to do both will regret going the FB path over the BB patch when all is said and done. I mean heck all one has to do is look at Jeff Smardzija, would have potentially been a 1st round pick for FB, decides to concentrate on bball and will probably earn 200 million dollars in hes career with a record currently 14 games under .500 and a plus 4 ERA!!

Guaranteed money vs non guaranteed money and longer career and fewer long term health issues. Not sure how well ARE would have done in bball, but I assume he would have done quite well had he focused on it.

 

[tigerchump]

Pro football may be at its nadir similar to boxing in the 70's. Boxing destroyed itself partially due to multiple championship belts but also seeing what happened to Ali was a big nail in the .......

Pay Per view also helped kill boxing.