tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2123919364122433432.post17380538534581286..comments2023-09-25T03:57:22.736-06:00Comments on The Decorum Forum: The HeismanBob Newlandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05388226473052858297noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2123919364122433432.post-64145090867888443892009-12-09T17:49:13.758-07:002009-12-09T17:49:13.758-07:00Suh all the way. Of course I'm biased towards...Suh all the way. Of course I'm biased towards the Cornhuskers.<br /><br />After the loss to Texas, I asked my wife is she finds it disturbing that I care so much for a team (Nebraska) I did not play for, I have no family playing for, and I rarely see live.<br /><br />Her response - you have one day to cry about, then back to the real world.Thad Wassonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00633228072878507747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2123919364122433432.post-50067283580040930372009-12-09T16:14:23.751-07:002009-12-09T16:14:23.751-07:00All rodeo events carry heightened risk of certain ...All rodeo events carry heightened risk of certain types of injuries. In the bucking events, especially bareback and bulls, there is a close-to-100% chance of performance-interrupting injury each year. <br /><br />However, most injuries in rodeo are to bones and tendons. Carpenters have a higher risk of brain injury due to concussions.<br /><br />According to the scientists in Gladwell's piece, boxers are the only group comparable to football players in the post-mortem brain analyses for dementia-associated indicia.<br /><br />Who's Tiger Woods?Bob Newlandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05388226473052858297noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2123919364122433432.post-83177753782610531952009-12-09T16:06:25.655-07:002009-12-09T16:06:25.655-07:00The New Yorker: Oct. 19, 2009, "Offensive Pla...The New Yorker: Oct. 19, 2009, "Offensive Play: How different are dogfighting and football?" by Malcolm Gladwell.<br /><br />The dogs, Gladwell says, do it for their owners/masters/best friends; the masters do it for the love of their animals.Bob Newlandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05388226473052858297noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2123919364122433432.post-88601023407986936512009-12-09T15:58:34.232-07:002009-12-09T15:58:34.232-07:00Yeah, Bob. I've avoided sports discussions he...Yeah, Bob. I've avoided sports discussions here because there are so many social arguments against them all.<br /><br />But they are fun to watch, much in the same way that Romans watched Christians fight the lions...<br /><br />The same health issues can easily be applied to rodeo, I suspect. Don't you?<br /><br />There is little doubt in my mind that weekly beatings on the gridiron cause brain damage for some. In rodeo, however, it is my opinion that the participants are brain damaged before they choose climb aboard 1,000 lb + animals that want to kill them.<br /><br />And then there's Ali getting into a ring with Foreman and Norton and Holmes and Frazier.<br /><br />And, now it appears from the recent issues with Tiger Woods, that golf is not safe either. If he didn't have brain damage before he cheated on that Swedish model wife, he likely has it now.<br /><br />Of course, one supposes that anyone who would cheat on someone so physically beautiful, would have to be brain damaged.Michael Sanbornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06523147171085428754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2123919364122433432.post-8863128711900346472009-12-09T15:40:01.285-07:002009-12-09T15:40:01.285-07:00There is a quite disturbing story in a recent &quo...There is a quite disturbing story in a recent "New Yorker" magazine about dementia-inspiring injuries to the head (concussions, mostly) of the sort prevalent in football.<br /><br />The story went so far as to be parallel examinations of the "sport" of dogfighting and the science regarding the startling occurrence of brain-damage indicators in former (as in dead, so scientists can sample brain tissue) football players' brains as opposed to that in the brains of a more general sampling of the deceased populace.<br /><br />I'll go dig through the "New Yorker"s I have, and provide a publication date.<br /><br />I admit to being impressed by the skills and grace, and the violence, one can see on the football field. I am disturbed by the facility with which skillful and graceful people are convinced that it's a good deal to trade a year of fame and money earned on the football field -- if they can even last long enough to make the pros -- for about four years off the tail end of their lives, and being debilitated by varying degrees of dementia for varying numbers of those years .Bob Newlandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05388226473052858297noreply@blogger.com