Nfl must change playoff concussion protocol

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Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501

I guess I’m not seeing where it’s obviously any worse than the many plays a game that helmets are hitting things full speed. From what I remember he popped up soon after and was sprinting on the sidelines trying to get back in.

If you've experienced a concussion, or been there when someone did, you'd know that people react in all kinds of ways after the event.

My worst concussion was in a football game in HS. In short, I got smashed by a guy that out-weighed me by about 60 pounds. I don't remember the event. I don't even remember the game.

What I was told afterwords by my teammates and my brother who was on the team with me, watching from the sidelines, was that I got up about ten seconds after the hit, and trotted over to the sidelines. Except I went to the other team's sidelines.

About five minutes after that play, I evidently went over to our DC and asked him to put me back in. My brother told me I asked him twice. Then I apparently threw up on his shoes. I have no memory of any of it.

The other problem is that concussions are cumulative, meaning that every concussion makes it easier to have another one. So you're never going to heal 100% from a concussion. Each one incurs a little more damage.