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I have a hard time reconciling this statement with all the ex-NFL players I hear about starting successful businesses and broadcast careers. In fact, almost al
by cubano 12y ago
I have a hard time reconciling this statement with all the ex-NFL players I hear about starting successful businesses and broadcast careers.
In fact, almost all the personalities on the FOX and CBS pre-game shows are ex-pros, and I find their abilities to reason and elucidate quite advanced, and they all admit to having many, many instances of head trauma in their careers.
- firebones 12y agoThat's what, 10 personalities out of the 3130 "former members" who are in the NFLPA? Most of the pre-gamers also played skill positions (taking fewer of the play-in, play-out repetitive hits of linemen and linebackers), played for better teams (more protection for quarterbacks on winning teams than the losers), and had roles (primarily quarterbacks) where they were already selected for a higher baseline of cognition and intelligence. That's how I'd reconcile it. What you see on TV is not a random sampling, before you even get to the selection process of the networks to pick the best available.
- cjbprime 12y agoThis is a textbook example of survivorship bias. The commentators you see on TV are healthy, because if they were not healthy then they wouldn't be on TV. It tells you nothing about the incidence of unhealthiness.
- cubano 12y agoFair enough, although the OP was a comment about the seemingly inevitability of CTE for this math-loving lineman, and my comment was nothing but a foil against that particular POV.
- rquantz 12y agoYes that's what I was saying. He definitely, without any hope reprieve, will absolutely have mush-brain when he retires. When I first joined HN, I found the literal-to-the-point-of-obtuseness attitude refreshing. But over time it has started to seem, well, obtuse.