you know, i really don t think there s anything that you can actually do to make the game safer. yeah, there s equipment and so forth. but you re talking about the brain. the helmet covers and protects the skull. it does not protect the brain. so when you have that rapid movement, when you have the brain moving forward when someone gets hit and then the brain hits against the inside of the skull, you know, that is when you sustain concussion. nothing is going to prevent that from happening. more and more, you hear players talk about when they sustained concussions. when you play against one another, you don t share. you don t talk. you keep those things to yourself because it really does show a sign of weakness and you don t want people to know what s going on. but when you retire, you start talking to other players about what happened and it becomes clear that there was a lot of damage that you either received or you gave out to players who
the skull, it s rough inside the skull, and that it tears at the brain when the brain hits so hard against the skull and it can tear the fibers of the brain and that can have lasting impact. headaches, difficulty concentrating, vision, balance problem and each depression and suicide. and so now what has happened this movement across the country over the last ten years has really spread telling doctors, telling athletes, telling their coaches and the parents if you suspect that an athlete has a head injury, they have to come off the field immediately and we re not just talking football. we are talking soccer, lacrosse, basketball, baseball, anything at all where a child or a player may need to come off the field. a lot of these sports you just mentioned, you know, really aren t wearing helmets. football, obviously. what is the congressional committee proposing in terms of combating this? what they are suggesting is to take what is already law in ten states and make it national.