The NFL is bracing itself for a multi-billion dollar class action that could cripple the sport.

The rule changes that emphasize the passing game have also created more problems with head traumas, etc..., IMO.

In the running game you have guys in relatively confined spaces running into each other. You run greater risks for broken limbs and such in the mass of bodies underneath, but the speeds are incredibly slow.

In the short passing game, however, the rules are designed to allow free movement and create speed. These guys are just launching themselves into each other over the middle of the field.

I wonder if we won't start to see rules shaded back towards encouraging the more deliberate, power football that we used to see. I really do think it would help improve the head trauma issues.

NFLN reported it.

not that he was dead, but that cops 'responded' to his house. they were clear on the 'responded' part.

Mike Webster...

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lano...hot-wound.html

Former USC and San Diego Chargers football star Junior Seau was found dead Wednesday of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head at his Oceanside home.

His girlfriend found him dead in his bed, according to law enforcement sources.

Oceanside police didn't immediately have any comment about what was happening at Seau's home but are expected to provide details soon.

Television footage showed police swarming around the home. The San Diego coroner's office could not confirm any information.

In 2010, Seau was involved in an accident in which his sport-utility vehicle went off a beachside cliff. The accident occurred after he was arrested in Oceanside on suspicion of domestic violence.

Seau also played for the Miami Dolphins and the New England Patriots.

Not the first time.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/23/sp...pagewanted=all

Players are also just bigger and faster and stronger too.

Who knows, maybe nothing will come of it because people want football at any cost. But this guy was a superstar. People who only casually follow football know who he is. Given the timing of bountygate and all the concussion issues, it's certainly going to bring the issue to the front even more.
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So much for science.

I'm no expert, but I don't believe it's the big shots that are the concern, it's the prolonged battle in the trenches that is causing the most damage. Not that big shots aren't having potential long term effects on guys, but the constant brain rattling is the focus.

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Guess we are going to find out about his financials here in the coming weeks. Sorry to his family, but he just hurt them more by taking this way out if it was suicide. They should not see any money from the insurance.

My first thoughts were steroids and/or concussions probably played a part in this.

R.I.P. Junior.

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So if the NFL goes downhill, I assume hockey will be next.

I guess I better learn to start liking baseball :grr: