Quote:
Originally Posted by brucey_72
I will never let my son play football, it is not worth it. I love football but regret it.
This is my story which I have told here before, I will make it brief. In High School I thought I was invincible, young and had dreams of playing college ball. I was a pass rusher and ended up getting a few concussions. My doctor told me I need to quit because once you get concussions, they will become frequent even without hard contact,especially if not healed fully. I did not listen and went back out a week later, I then got a concussion during a walk through with little contact. I continued to play.
I then went on to play college rugby, against my family and doctors will. I ended up getting a concussion while playing that resulted in swelling and bleeding of the brain.
Now I am 24, is married with 2 daughters. I now live with body shakes, mini seizures, memory loss, and get to look forward to being in a wheelchair by the time I'm 50, and I lose a lot of body functions including my memory by the time I'm 50, which my doctor says is a certainty unless medical research can find ways to help people like me. Which all could have been avoided by listening to the doctor.
Luckily for me, now I just live life like it is my last day with my family. Because any day could be my last day capable of living a normal life.
Trust me, football is not worth it.
|
That's a pretty brutal story dude and I'm sorry to hear about it and wish you nothing but the best. I had two concussions in four year of wrestling, one was minor and the other was a real bell ringer. I felt like I was stuck in a dream and couldn't get out of it. It's easy to shrug off because many times they really don't hurt, you're just foggy and don't realize that ball of jelly in your head that controls everything just got blasted. It didn't mean a difference in the world to me back then either. You were young invulnerable and on a mission If I had to guess (note: guess) the NFL is so big and powerful it's going to start placing the liability on the player. I doubt it will ever have a shortage of young 20 year old guys willing to put their body at risk for millions of dollars, fame and women throwing themselves at them just because, well their 20 something years old. A kind of weird analogy but relevant; listen to the Henry Hill interview back in the mob heyday where guys were getting shot, tortured and beaten for money and power. Young guys were in line waiting to take the next guys place. The consequences don't get more apparent than that situation. You're not thinking 20 years down the road at that age. You still think you're 10 foot tall and bullet proof.