Loopz
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A bit early for CTE. My impression is the guy didn't know how to be anything but a football player. RIP.Wonder if it has to do with the concussions.
This isn't the first one. The athletes don't want a headshot because they want their brains studied for CTE.
I'm suddenly very depressed upon reading this.
Self-inflicted gunshot wound to the chest. ....right. Any cop with a half-functioning brain would know no one shoots themselves in the chest because of the pain before you die. I call shenanigans and murder.
One of my friends is a mortician.
The owner of his company found out he had terminal cancer and shot himself in the chest. He did so because it would be less work for the morticians to stuff him. Head shots are messy.
#55 was my first jersey. It was Chris Claiborne at the time (1st round draft pick), but it didn't take long for people to start assuming it was Seau again --for good reason.
For those that might not know: USC has a tradition of giving 55 only to the most promising linebackers; they don't automatically recirculate it. Seau is often the one credited with starting that tradition.
I hope his death and autopsy will go to helping those in a similar situation. I remember reading that NY Times cover story a number of years ago that really got the gears running on this issue, it was saddening what so many guys were dealing with: social/emotional shut-ins, never leaving the house. It's also linked to how much bigger/faster players are now: the collisions are causing incredible trauma. I feel a bit bad because I still love the sport (at least on the college level) and feel that it contributes to this: I love watching it, but I don't think I'd let my kid play unless he was a kicker or long-snapper (actually, being a reliable long-snapper is a great way to a long NFL career).
I hope his death and autopsy will go to helping those in a similar situation. I remember reading that NY Times cover story a number of years ago that really got the gears running on this issue, it was saddening what so many guys were dealing with: social/emotional shut-ins, never leaving the house. It's also linked to how much bigger/faster players are now: the collisions are causing incredible trauma. I feel a bit bad because I still love the sport (at least on the college level) and feel that it contributes to this: I love watching it, but I don't think I'd let my kid play unless he was a kicker or long-snapper (actually, being a reliable long-snapper is a great way to a long NFL career).
It also doesn’t always do the job, meaning you die in a matter of minutes in which you are in and out of consciousness; this is much the same as those who try to bleed themselves out.
You’d be surprised by how many self inflicted gunshots wounds to the head are not fatal; I’ve seen guys – all of them were men, actually – who came into the E.R. with their eyes blown out from attempting suicide via a handgun to the side of the head. Most of the time though, it was guys which failed to use a high powered handgun, and had the bullet either lodge or exit once it contacted the sphenoid or temporal area.
Who would have thought that Mike Tyson would be smartest and most eloquent Boxing Legend????
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People that follow professional boxing say that the legends have a lot of the same symptoms. Distantness, motor skill problems, problems staying awake.
Who would have thought that Mike Tyson would be smartest and most eloquent Boxing Legend????
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I don't who this guy but the situation sounds so fucked and depressing. Self inflicted gunshot wound to the chest? Guy must have had some serious demons.
This just disturbed the shit out of me. Mind if I ask what you do for a living?
The OP failed at making a regular link, the colon is missing before the slashes.Link doesn't work.
People that follow professional boxing say that the legends have a lot of the same symptoms. Distantness, motor skill problems, problems staying awake.
Who would have thought that Mike Tyson would be smartest and most eloquent Boxing Legend????
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cases have been popping up in wrestling and hockey as well. any kind of impact sport, or even sports entertainment. should helmets be worn in the squared circle? they don't help much in football. should sports like this be done away with? no not at all. really all i think can be done is inform people, players, and athletes, get regular brain scans in place, and have therapy readily available. there doesn't seem to be any drug treatment, maybe alzheimers meds. i know chris nowinski setup a whole institute for studying concussions and their effect on the brain, and set up the benoit foundation for even more research, but when talented and capable athletes are dying over something that could be prevented well research can only go so far.