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Originally Posted by stunna954
I doubt this will be true because the organizations that run each are so vastly different. Boxing was and is very fragmented with no main organization or promotion. The NFL on the other hand is a multibillion dollar company with 32 billion+ dollar owners with huge investments to protect. Much like they already have they will pour money into suppressing a lot of negative news and try and put as many "rules" in place to give the sense they are trying to protect the athlete and the game. There is way too much money in the NFL and NCAA to allow it to happen.
Money gives football lasting power there is no doubt. The NFL, NCAA, and other interested parties use money to suppress the truth and introduce evidence that allows those in favor of football to plausibly deny the long-term effects of playing the game.
My hope is that in the next decade technology will become widely available that allows for real-time analysis and viewing of the impacts that result from playing the game. For example, a low cost sensor system that can be installed in helmets and wirelessly transmit impact data to a computer or smartphone. Imagine if parents could see in real time using their phone the g forces their kids' brains are being exposed to as they play. This would make it a lot harder for parents to send their kids out on the field.
I also hope that we will develop medical technology that makes it easy and affordable to look inside a living person's brain and understand the effects of taking hits in a football game. If parents could spend $20 on a co-pay to run a CTE test on their kid I think a lot of them would do it. This too would make it harder to deny the effects of the game.
Plausible deniability needs to be destroyed to have any hope of stamping out football.
Re: the video posted- The hit at 57 seconds is dead on helmet to helmet.
As always, football is the worst.