Chris Borland - Bad ass - retires
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First of all, shout out to the scrappy
whiteunderdog. Second, sounds like some of you need to retract your Lockner slander; he's just one of the forerunners of the early retirement trend. -
It's kind of messed up to convince a team to draft you though and quit after one season. I'm sure he didn't tell the 49ers that he was planning to retire after one season. OTOH, a team can cut a player at any time so it's fair game for the player to up and quit when he feels like it.
I get everything about CTE, but Dave Dueran and the others aren't the norm. Not every football player is a mess after retirement. There are plenty of guys who have done fine post retirement. There are plenty of baseball and basketball players that are a mess after retiring as well. It's not solely a football issue, although injury risk is obviously much higher with football.
CTE is being seen as the sole reason for players spiraling after retirement. It was a good media story because it had been overlooked for so long. Now, it's become sensationalized. 78 percent of NFL players are broke or in financial trouble after retirement. Many players didn't prioritize getting an education. Their sole identity since they were kids was being really good at football. You take all that away and life gets tough for some guys, but the media likes to blame it all on the barbaric nature of football and CTE. -
Dave Wyman was saying the other day that he had numerous concussions and now at the age of 51 has had no issues in terms of mental acuity. He clearly thinks the issue is being turned into something greater than it is by the media.
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Wyman is a Stanford grad. Those guys have more brain cells than everyone else. So what if they kill some of them?DerekJohnson said:Dave Wyman was saying the other day that he had numerous concussions and now at the age of 51 has had no issues in terms of mental acuity. He clearly thinks the issue is being turned into something greater than it is by the media.
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Wyman is starting to get annoying a little bit. We will see when he gets closer to 60...he also unbeknownst to him tells the same fucking story about his love the locker room...earl on set dementia...lots of hits to the head over decades will catch up to one way or another... the people to them will see it happening in front of their eyes.DerekJohnson said:Dave Wyman was saying the other day that he had numerous concussions and now at the age of 51 has had no issues in terms of mental acuity. He clearly thinks the issue is being turned into something greater than it is by the media.
He called Patrick Willis a brat for quitting, though john Clayton said he can hardly run the pain in his feet is so bad. He called Locker a brat as well...its their choice why should have such a pronlem with it it zero impact on his life.
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What I like about Wyman is that it feels like he's telling you what he really thinks. He's not echoing the party line.jecornel said:
Wyman is starting to get annoying a little bit. We will see when he gets closer to 60...he also unbeknownst to him tells the same fucking story about his love the locker room...earl on set dementia...lots of hits to the head over decades will catch up to one way or another... the people to them will see it happening in front of their eyes.DerekJohnson said:Dave Wyman was saying the other day that he had numerous concussions and now at the age of 51 has had no issues in terms of mental acuity. He clearly thinks the issue is being turned into something greater than it is by the media.
He called Patrick Willis a brat for quitting, though john Clayton said he can hardly run the pain in his feet is so bad. He called Locker a brat as well...its their choice why should have such a pronlem with it it zero impact on his life. -
There are clearly risks involved playing the game, but I agree that CTE is taking the blame for way too many of the issues. Of course these guys get depressed in retirement. I would probably be ok with dying at 50 if it meant I was worshiped like a God for the decade of my prime. We all die, very few know the glory of running out of a tunnel to be embraced by thousands while pursuing a clearly defined goal and being compensated very well. Most by the age of 50 have floundered from job to job wondering what life would be like if they quit grad school 20 years earlier to chase whatever dream they lost.
IMO, Just as big of an issue leading to the post retirement downfall are the sharks circling these guys throughout their career. The NFL needs to provide money management programs to give these guys a chance. You see a bunch of ex players starting financial companies for this purpose and it's curious the NFL never took the initiative themselves. The NFL turned and burned these guys for decades and finally got caught with their hand in the cookie jar. Throw the NCAA in the conversation too, player exploitation starts from the first nike camp on up.
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I hope Wyman doesn't suffer any ill affects from his football days.
I think 710 does a pretty good job of everyone to speak their mind.
Though they have marching orders not speak college football which really sucks. -
I had a concussion seminar this past weekend as part of training for coaching girls youth soccer.
Apparently girls soccer concussion rates are 2nd highest behind football.
Media hype or not, concussions are being taken seriously at these levels of sport. -
Concussion Superiority Guywhlinder said:I had a concussion seminar this past weekend as part of training for coaching girls youth soccer.
Apparently girls soccer concussion rates are 2nd highest behind football.
Media hype or not, concussions are being taken seriously at these levels of sport. -
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Which is weird considering one of the networks national CFB analysts is arguably the biggest personality on the station.jecornel said:I hope Wyman doesn't suffer any ill affects from his football days.
I think 710 does a pretty good job of everyone to speak their mind.
Though they have marching orders not speak college football which really sucks. -
I don't care for 710 or Wyman…thats the nicest thing I can say.
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I'd rather live a mediocre life and die at 80.Doogles said:There are clearly risks involved playing the game, but I agree that CTE is taking the blame for way too many of the issues. Of course these guys get depressed in retirement. I would probably be ok with dying at 50 if it meant I was worshiped like a God for the decade of my prime. We all die, very few know the glory of running out of a tunnel to be embraced by thousands while pursuing a clearly defined goal and being compensated very well. Most by the age of 50 have floundered from job to job wondering what life would be like if they quit grad school 20 years earlier to chase whatever dream they lost.
IMO, Just as big of an issue leading to the post retirement downfall are the sharks circling these guys throughout their career. The NFL needs to provide money management programs to give these guys a chance. You see a bunch of ex players starting financial companies for this purpose and it's curious the NFL never took the initiative themselves. The NFL turned and burned these guys for decades and finally got caught with their hand in the cookie jar. Throw the NCAA in the conversation too, player exploitation starts from the first nike camp on up.
Being a football player or rock star seemed cool when I was a kid. Then in my 20s, I noticed a ton of these guys od'd or died from years of physical punishment in their 40s or 50s. -
Brother in law retired at 27 from the NFL with full pension and a year remaining on his last deal.
No concussion issues but he's looking at a double-knee and right-hip replacement by 40.
