Bruce Arians with the foot in mouth

[Prime Time]

Also you are completely and totally incorrect about the boxing thing. Now I am NOT saying boxers can't have the same issue, clearly they can or the term punch drunk wouldn't have been invented decades ago. But it's nowhere near what the cumulative damage football often does.

Don't know where you get the stats for that. Boxing has zero concussion policies so there's no way to know definitively.

http://www.thenewsoutlet.org/90-per...njuries-only-sport-without-concussion-policy/

The NFL, NBA, MLB and NHL enforce strict concussion policies. But boxing has no such rule.

The American Association of Neurological Surgeons say 90 percent of boxers suffer some kind of brain injury while boxing. Because of these brain injuries, boxers are more prone to mental deterioration during their later years that can lead to Parkinson’s or Alzheimer’s.

A boxer MIGHT get hit that many times in the head in some fights but not very many since if an opponent lands that many likely the fight is over from TKO or KO. Also they won't have 200 fights or 300 fights, they may have 50 if they have a LONG career. That's less than 3 NFL seasons. Imagine a guy that plays 8 years. That's 128 games. That could easily be over 5,000 hits to the head.

Boxers spend many rounds sparring to get ready for an upcoming fight. They go at it with sparring partners for weeks sometimes months. It's not just the fight itself but the accumulation of punches taken to the head during training that causes brain damage.

Can we all agree that concussions are a problem in both these sports and that everything possible should be done to minimize the long-term effects on these athletes we enjoy watching?

 

[OC--LeftCoast]

So lemme get this straight, it's been put forth in this thread that nfl'rs suffer more head trauma than Boxers?

Not buying it

 

[LumberTubs]

Arians needn't worry about the game. Sure, youth participation will drop and pro players who have earned a good living from the game will retire earlier than they would've done in the past (I'm talking about players of Calvin Johnson/D'Brickashaw Ferguson/Patrick Willis age, not the likes of Borland/Tarpley).

However, as long as the players are earning ridiculous sums of money, there will always be enough people willing to take the risk for that kind of cash.

 

[LesBaker]

Don't know where you get the stats for that. Boxing has zero concussion policies so there's no way to know definitively.

http://www.thenewsoutlet.org/90-per...njuries-only-sport-without-concussion-policy/

The NFL, NBA, MLB and NHL enforce strict concussion policies. But boxing has no such rule.

The American Association of Neurological Surgeons say 90 percent of boxers suffer some kind of brain injury while boxing. Because of these brain injuries, boxers are more prone to mental deterioration during their later years that can lead to Parkinson’s or Alzheimer’s.



Boxers spend many rounds sparring to get ready for an upcoming fight. They go at it with sparring partners for weeks sometimes months. It's not just the fight itself but the accumulation of punches taken to the head during training that causes brain damage.

Can we all agree that concussions are a problem in both these sports and that everything possible should be done to minimize the long-term effects on these athletes we enjoy watching?

Yes but they are wearing headgear and aren't really taking full shots. Much of the training is punching a trainers hands while they are wearing padded mitts.

Brain injury can be something as simple as getting their bell rung. Of course any knockout is a concussion as we know.

The guy on the DL/OL takes way more punishment though. And now as a whole they are so much bigger that the force is greater. So we will be seeing more damage.