Your second paragraph is spot on. The issue is not the impact which is primarily what helmets protect against. It's the acceleration. You can't protect against acceleration without lengthening the time it takes for the impact to occur or spreading the force in different directions.
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The helmets used in racing, including regular street use motorcycle helmets, are designed in a way that their internal structure breaks so that they provide more protection. Even dropping a helmet on the ground is enough of an impact to compromise the ability of the helmets to protect against an impact so it’s not… Read more
I played Rugby League at an ok level, the difference isnt the helmets and it certainly isnt the angles. Its down by contact. In Rugby League the closer analogue to NFL, you have to actually complete the tackle, in the NFL you dont, you simply have to knock them over. NFL tackles do not happen in Rugby because they… Read more
Yeah, I’m kind of shocked by this hot take and I usually agree with Drew. Nothing is going to de-incentivize players to keep hitting each other like freight trains as long as we keep paying them millions of dollars to do it. All removing pads and helmets will accomplish is that they’ll be wearing less protective gear… Read more
And the reason facemasks were added is that shit happens in a pileup or when runners tumble to the ground. Old time football players’ faces were a mess.
Totally agree with you Chris. And note, Rugby isn’t as safe as Drew makes it out to be, undercutting him further. June of last year, James Ackerman died of injuries on the field. Last may, Zane Purcell gets hit in the head, falls, dies on the field. 4 years ago, college rugby player Halley Appleby dies of injuries… Read more
Thank you so much for this. People are ignorant to the FACT (proven by study after study) that helmets reduce injury. I’d imagine that even if he was somehow right and helmets reduced the amount of injuries I’d also imagine that the severity of the fewer injuries would be much higher. Like you said people were dying… Read more
On top of this... Aussie football DOES have a suicide problem and all the problems we have in American football. Ignoring the facts like this article did and just stating the opposite of the truth doesn’t help anything. Read more
And the “no pads = safe football” take also ignores the fact that professional football players who have been playing the game for 15+ years will instinctively make the same dangerous plays regardless of if they have pads on, because they’re hardwired from so many years of coaching to do that. You see that with the… Read more
Ha! Look how naive you are! They don’t use pads in Rugby, and those guys never get hurt! Checkmate atheists! Read more
I might not be a doctor science guy but I’d rather have the players die at 45 due to suicide of brain damage then 25 with all the skull fractures.
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