Bruce Arians: Parents who won't let kids play football 'are fools'
 

What the hell dude??


http://mweb.cbssports.com/nfl/eye-on-football/25529381/bruce-arians-parents-who-wont-let-kids-play-football-are-fools


Football is under attack. At least that's the perception for some, especially as we learn more about the effects of concussions on players' long-term health. And Cardinals coach Bruce Arians is tired of hearing about it.

"People that say, 'I won't let my son play [football]' are fools," Arians told TheMMQB.com.

"We have this fear of concussion that is real, but not all of those statistics, I think, can prove anything," he continued, echoing comments made by several NFL owners earlier this week.

“No, that's absurd," Cowboys owner Jerry Jones told the Washington Post about the relationship between chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) and playing football. "There's no data that in any way creates a knowledge. There's no way that you could have made a comment that there is an association and some type of assertion. In most things, you have to back it up by studies. And in this particular case, we all know how medicine is. Medicine is evolving."

Texans owner Bob McNair added, "I think it's an important issue. I'm more concerned about the misconceptions people can have about it than I am about what's really taking place. We're studying this issue closely, more than anyone else. We've put up money for research before anyone else did. Our medical scientists still don't know what the cause of CTE is. It appears that if you've had multiple concussions from whatever you've been doing, riding a bicycle, skateboarding, it's not just football, that there's a possibility it could lead to CTE."

Meanwhile, Arians has nothing but good things to say about football.

"This is the greatest game in the world," he said. "I think it teaches more values than any other game that you play. You have things that happen in your life that aren't going to be good. If you play football, you know how to handle them. It doesn't necessarily equate in track and other things."

Last week, during a roundtable discussion on concussion research with the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, NFL senior VP for Health and Safety Policy Jeff Miller was asked if he thought there was a link between football and CTE.

“The answer to that question is certainly yes," he said.

It was the first time the league publicly acknowledged the link.

I guess it's settled then.

I don't see how anyone could deny the damage, research or not. I mean come on...dudes are running around full speed and smashing into each other.

Riding a bike? Several guys smashing heads into each other several times. Hmmm sounds the same to me.

OJ is still searching for the killer.

Do people fall of their bike, hit their head, and end up with a concussion? Sure. That's the exact opposite of what you're trying to accomplish though. I'd imagine it's pretty rare.

Football, like porn, involves ramming your head into objects repeatedly as a core part of the action.

Not really surprising there. Bruce Arians whole life has centered around football. He's naturally going to take it personally when his livelihood is under an attack of sorts. Hell of a coach, seems to be a pretty stand up dude, and a guy whose opinion no parent should give a shit about.

Opps

They have a vested interest in denying the health hazards caused by their industry. This is not unlike the way the tobacco companies denied for years that there was any link between cigarette smoking and lung cancer.

Bruce Arians is a ****ing moron. 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.

I won't refuse to let my son play football, but I also won't actively push him towards playing. When he is old enough, I will explain to him the risks and the benefits of playing football and let him decide if he wants to play. If he decides to play, I will also make sure he learns the proper technique and that he has the best equipment available.

The story you typed before you removed it didn't match this story. I smell bullshit.

LMAO