(09-30-2022, 08:45 AM)Mikey Wrote:

(09-29-2022, 09:29 PM)homebiscuit Wrote: Tua down again with a head injury. I'm surprised he was allowed back in last week. This time looks serious.

I don't think they can get away with calling this one a back or an ankle, though.

That was violent. Glad to hear by end of game that everything appeared ok and he was discharged from emergency care.

Hopefully he's following up with specialists in Miami because there is exactly no way he didn't sustain some sort of TBI, no matter how "minor". And it won't be minor because he was still recovering from last week. 

Has no one learned from former players' injuries and TBIs suffered by troops in combat? No, he wasn't sitting in an APC that ran over an IED, but brain injuries are brain injuries and football players are constantly exposed to their brain being concussed to a degree every time they're tackled or hit the ground just as troops are in combat. 

The helmet only protects bones being broken, they don't lessen the brain being knocked around inside the skull. 

If these guys are willing to do this to themselves they need to be willing to heed protocol and listen to doctors and the league and teams need to let them. TBIs and CTE are real and never go away.

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