Comments on: Football HIT http://www.oliverwillis.com/2008/12/19/football-hit/ Like Kryptonite To Stupid Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:48:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: Duros62 http://www.oliverwillis.com/2008/12/19/football-hit/#comment-130486 Duros62 Sun, 21 Dec 2008 01:14:58 +0000 http://www.oliverwillis.com/?p=12037#comment-130486 <i>Would there be more or fewer injuries (and of what degree?) if helmets and hard padding were eliminated from football?</i> <a>Indeed.</a> Would there be more or fewer injuries (and of what degree?) if helmets and hard padding were eliminated from football?

Indeed.

]]> By: ed http://www.oliverwillis.com/2008/12/19/football-hit/#comment-130483 ed Sat, 20 Dec 2008 21:07:00 +0000 http://www.oliverwillis.com/?p=12037#comment-130483 <i>There would probably more injuries,</i> Well, I want a more scientific analysis. Also, please refrain from citing Easterbrook as a source. His credibility is <a href="thepoorman.net" rel="nofollow">questionable</a>. There would probably more injuries,

Well, I want a more scientific analysis. Also, please refrain from citing Easterbrook as a source. His credibility is questionable.

]]> By: Oliver Willis http://www.oliverwillis.com/2008/12/19/football-hit/#comment-130481 Oliver Willis Sat, 20 Dec 2008 19:19:18 +0000 http://www.oliverwillis.com/?p=12037#comment-130481 There would probably more injuries, remember that in the early part of last century, football was played with leather helmets and the NFL used to have the single-bar facemask. Gregg Easterbrook of ESPN's TMQ has been talking the last few years about how most high school/Pop Warner teams are using better shock absorbing helmets and how the NFL should too. I'm liable to agree, but willing to bet the league won't change its ways until someone gets seriously hurt (paralyzed, etc.) from a monster hit or pile-on. There would probably more injuries, remember that in the early part of last century, football was played with leather helmets and the NFL used to have the single-bar facemask. Gregg Easterbrook of ESPN’s TMQ has been talking the last few years about how most high school/Pop Warner teams are using better shock absorbing helmets and how the NFL should too. I’m liable to agree, but willing to bet the league won’t change its ways until someone gets seriously hurt (paralyzed, etc.) from a monster hit or pile-on.

]]> By: ed http://www.oliverwillis.com/2008/12/19/football-hit/#comment-130476 ed Sat, 20 Dec 2008 16:58:30 +0000 http://www.oliverwillis.com/?p=12037#comment-130476 Would there be more or fewer injuries (and of what degree?) if helmets and hard padding were eliminated from football? How to injuries from American Football compare with rugby, Aussie Football, or Gaelic Football? I don't know the answer, but it's worth investigating. American Football helmets sure are sexy all shined up and whatnot. I wonder, though, if they could be softer on the outside (they experimented with this in the 60s, but the skid factor made them more dangerous). Would there be more or fewer injuries (and of what degree?) if helmets and hard padding were eliminated from football? How to injuries from American Football compare with rugby, Aussie Football, or Gaelic Football? I don’t know the answer, but it’s worth investigating.

American Football helmets sure are sexy all shined up and whatnot. I wonder, though, if they could be softer on the outside (they experimented with this in the 60s, but the skid factor made them more dangerous).

]]> By: justadood http://www.oliverwillis.com/2008/12/19/football-hit/#comment-130455 justadood Sat, 20 Dec 2008 06:39:01 +0000 http://www.oliverwillis.com/?p=12037#comment-130455 If I were referee, i'd have ejected the defensive back---the slow-mo shows it.....he went in head-down. Spearing is dangerous, and (at least when I was in school) and ejection offense. Isaac is a licky kid: he could have been concussed or even killed by that hit (spears have caused cardiac arrest on rare occasions) If I were referee, i’d have ejected the defensive back—the slow-mo shows it…..he went in head-down. Spearing is dangerous, and (at least when I was in school) and ejection offense. Isaac is a licky kid: he could have been concussed or even killed by that hit (spears have caused cardiac arrest on rare occasions)

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