GameBreaker: Brandon Sheppard's player safety role for Tennessee

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Interesting. I wonder how long before the helmets are used in games.

Where’s the picture with the Power T?
 
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Grudenhaslanded said:
Good lord, why don’t we just go back to leather helmets and stop this chickens*** football nonsense.
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Yeah... Sure was more fun when football amounted to human cockfighting and then we’d just wait for the CTE to kick in at age 40 and act like we didn’t know what happened.
 
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Good to see that Pruitt and Fulmer are doing what it takes to keep our players safe and even those who are visiting prospects. Stories like this should please potential recruit families.
 
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GAVol said:
Yeah... Sure was more fun when football amounted to human cockfighting and then we’d just wait for the CTE to kick in at age 40 and act like we didn’t know what happened.
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Cafego was feisty to the end and had every marble he started with when his life ended.
 
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GAVol said:
Yeah... Sure was more fun when football amounted to human cockfighting and then we’d just wait for the CTE to kick in at age 40 and act like we didn’t know what happened.
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I bet we’d see a lot less targeting and leading with the head.

Rugby and Australian football does just fine without hard helmets and face masks.
 
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Leather helmets and no dain bramage? Go figure...

GO VOLS!!!!
 
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hog88 said:
I bet we’d see a lot less targeting and leading with the head.

Rugby and Australian football does just fine without hard helmets and face masks.
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Ummm, just hear of that Australian rugby player that murdered his wife and three kids by soaking their car in gasoline as they tried to flee him and then killing himself with a knife?

Maybe you should do a little more research. Anyone with multiple blows to head over a period of time is going to have significant damage and possibly suffer from the effects of those hits.
 
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Jake Tate said:
Ummm, just hear of that Australian rugby player that murdered his wife and three kids by soaking their car in gasoline as they tried to flee him and then killing himself with a knife?

Maybe you should do a little more research. Anyone with multiple blows to head over a period of time is going to have significant damage and possibly suffer from the effects of those hits.
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Oh heck we have one example, better put those guys in hard hats with face masks. If you ever watch AU football you will notice those guys form tackle and do go for the kill shots.
 
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hog88 said:
I bet we’d see a lot less targeting and leading with the head.

Rugby and Australian football does just fine without hard helmets and face masks.
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The leather helmet was a response to head cuts and bruises/knots.....accidental contact as well as the original single bar face mask was teeth protection. The concussions came into play with all the additional padding and solid case
 
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GAVol said:
Yeah... Sure was more fun when football amounted to human cockfighting and then we’d just wait for the CTE to kick in at age 40 and act like we didn’t know what happened.
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I think you are the one with CTE. Players didn’t get CTE back then, because they didn’t lead the tackle or the block with their head. Know why? They had intelligence and knew they had neither a facemask or thick helmet to falsely make them think they were invincible. Same with rugby. You want to make the game safer and eliminate CTE, take away the facemask and lighten up the helmet. Then people would tackle with their shoulders like they did in the 50’s and 60’s.
 
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CTE was only discovered about 10-15 years ago. They didn’t play smarter back in the day... head injuries were just treated differently. I’ll never forget being on a high school sideline about 15 years ago and a d-lineman went down and had to come off after getting his bell rung and the coach got in his face telling him that it was a conditioning problem.
 
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GAVol said:
CTE was only discovered about 10-15 years ago. They didn’t play smarter back in the day... head injuries were just treated differently. I’ll never forget being on a high school sideline about 15 years ago and a d-lineman went down and had to come off after getting his bell rung and the coach got in his face telling him that it was a conditioning problem.
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15 years ago that player was wearing a hard helmet.
 
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hog88 said:
15 years ago that player was wearing a hard helmet.
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There are plenty of documented CTE cases from guys that played in the no-face mask era. All I’m saying is that we can’t be cavalier about other people’s health.
 
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I played HS football 20 years ago. 1 on 1 tackle, head to head on the opponents kick returner...which happened to be their 220lb running back. Managed to pull him down on top of me as I went dark. Woke me up with smelling salts in the middle of the field. Completely out.

I missed 2 snaps. 1st and 2nd down. On 3rd down, maybe 2 minutes after waking up, I was gladly back on the field as the strong side defensive end. Hitting a TE helmet to helmet every snap for the rest of the game. I wanted to play. Had a blast. The coaches should have held me out though.

We didnt know then. Times have changed.
 
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