{"id":3093,"date":"2025-08-26T21:33:05","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T21:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=3093"},"modified":"2025-08-26T21:44:52","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T21:44:52","slug":"cte-and-football-addiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=3093","title":{"rendered":"CTE and football addiction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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History Museum football helmet, circa the 1950s. …photo by Joe<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Catching up on the summer of 2025 (part 4)…. I wrote a newspaper article this summer about a local man who played football for Cincinnati University in the 1950s. He played without a facemask, broke his nose eight times during his collegiate career, and who knows how many concussions he got. About the same time I was writing this, on July 28, Shane Tamura shot and killed four people in a building that housed the NFL headquarters. He, too, was killed. But Tamura left a note asking that his brain be studied for CTE, Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy<\/strong>. He had played football in high school in California. Now, if this was a one-off situation, it would be easy to dismiss. But CTE keeps coming up again and again now, including in a significant study done on a group of deceased NFL players. While I grew up playing football *(see)<\/a>, and love the sport, it’s becoming time to seriously assess if we want to keep sending our children down an athletic path that could seriously hurt them for life. Note:<\/strong> I was also recently reading parts of a book titled The Big Scrum (How Teddy Roosevelt Saved Football). <\/strong><\/em> The book noted that there was an increasing number of deaths and maiming in football in the late 1800’s, and a cohort of college presidents, and such, were calling for the abolishing of football. At the time, Roosevelt wrote an article for Harper’s Weekly<\/em>, defending football against “…the noisy crusade of the (football) prohibitionists.” The sport, he wrote, was integral to a “…vigorous and manly nation, where there is a certain slight element of risk.” Yet, and here was the caveat: He also wrote: “The brutality must be done away with, and the danger minimized. The rules for football ought probably to be altered…” Note 2: <\/strong> We would do well, as a collective society, to lobby for a series of changes that make our current brand of football much less violent. Problem is, we, also as a collective, have become absolutely addicted to watching the football violence. Note 3:<\/strong> We would also do well, for many of our kids’ sakes, to start to like the game of soccer more. Most of the rest of the world does.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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