I'm not saying there aren't significant injuries from playing football but the numbers of those just don't support the knee jerk decisions and reactions that have taken place over the last decade.
Think of how many people have played high school, college, and professional football over the last 60-70 years. With the way football has been changed you would think graveyards would be littered with tombstones saying "Killed on the football battlefield". It's a CROC, and a complete over reaction to the few significant and highly publicized injuries sustained from football. The way football is changing is a direct result of the PC culture that dominates society today.
The few cases are not an outlier, they're just the people who exist firmly enough in the public eye for you to know and care about them. That doesn't mean those are the whole of people who had deleterious outcomes from TBI in football.
My uncle played at UK. Never made it to the NFL as a player. You wouldn't know his name if I said it or his story if I told it, but he spent his whole life in football. He passed away a year and a half ago. The last few years were incredibly rough. He had a brain disease that less than 1 10th of 1 percent of the population has. That .1% number comes from them thur idgits at the Mayo Clinic, highfalutin medical experts, think they're so much smarter than ya! I wouldn't subject you to that type of book learning, we can all agree science is a tool of the devil, it only exists to tell us lies like fire will burn you. I don't think so, science! To my math, (~330 mil Americans, 1.4 mil with the disease in question) tells me .4%, so clearly it's a widespread pandemic...
.1-.4% of the US population have LBD. 17% of people who have CTE have LBD.
Football is dangerous. Football was dangerous in the 50s. Football was dangerous in the 50s even at the college level. The fact you don't know the names or faces of the people who are suffering doesn't mean they don't exist. CTE is the world revolving around the sun. That didn't start with Galileo and traumatic brain injuries didn't start when the science advanced to the point of observing them, it was going on during your golden age anecdotal period of 1950, 60, 70.
Now, to move away from your bullshit and back to the OP: the Bowden hit shouldn't have been flagged. He didn't lead, didn't launch, hit with forearm, and only grazed helmets because Bowden was low to avoid the head contact and the EKU player ducked into him. There needs to be room for officials to look at intent, impact, and who initiated head contact instead of just making all contact to the head a 1 game penalty. Player safety needs to continue to advance, targeting penalty needs to be overhauled in a big way.
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