If heading is eventually banned
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Re: If heading is eventually banned
Easy.
Intelligent Footballs are clearly the answer.
You know, those that distinguish a players head a millisecond before impact and go all soft, yet immediately regains its integrity a nano second after its headed, with the perfect thrust and direction it would have gone.
Delux versions would be able to identify 6 heads at once, if called upon.
Intelligent Footballs are clearly the answer.
You know, those that distinguish a players head a millisecond before impact and go all soft, yet immediately regains its integrity a nano second after its headed, with the perfect thrust and direction it would have gone.
Delux versions would be able to identify 6 heads at once, if called upon.
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Sounds like the way to go.Buxtonclaret wrote: ↑Sat Nov 21, 2020 6:51 amEasy.
Intelligent Footballs are clearly the answer.
You know, those that distinguish a players head a millisecond before impact and go all soft, yet immediately regains its integrity a nano second after its headed, with the perfect thrust and direction it would have gone.
Delux versions would be able to identify 6 heads at once, if called upon.
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Caretaker player-managers were always good at that.Paul Waine wrote: ↑Fri Nov 20, 2020 11:57 pmThat's all you needed to be if you were a good sweeper.
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Has anyone seen any stats on dementia in footballers? For example, how many ex players per 100 get dementia by a specific age compared to 100 non players? I suppose you'd have to exclude ex boxers from the general population figure and have a separate stat for them.
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Just had a look myself and found this:-
The study, which used recently digitised NHS Scotland data to compare the causes of death of 7,676 former male professional players who were born between 1900 and 1976 against those of more than 23,000 people from the general population, was hailed as the largest ever to look at the incidence of neurodegenerative disease in any sport by its head, Dr William Stewart.
Stewart’s team found that while ex-footballers live on average three and a quarter years longer than the normal population, 11 per cent of ex-professionals had died of dementia according to their death certificates compared to 3 per cent of the general public.
Link: https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/soccer ... -1.4057899
The study, which used recently digitised NHS Scotland data to compare the causes of death of 7,676 former male professional players who were born between 1900 and 1976 against those of more than 23,000 people from the general population, was hailed as the largest ever to look at the incidence of neurodegenerative disease in any sport by its head, Dr William Stewart.
Stewart’s team found that while ex-footballers live on average three and a quarter years longer than the normal population, 11 per cent of ex-professionals had died of dementia according to their death certificates compared to 3 per cent of the general public.
Link: https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/soccer ... -1.4057899
Re: If heading is eventually banned
No heading? No tackling?
What's left?
Passing and diving...and handball.
Yawn.
What's left?
Passing and diving...and handball.
Yawn.
Re: If heading is eventually banned
Tackling with your head (a spear tackle) and helmet to helmet tackles are both personal fouls and 15 yard penalties (quite a lot).
Boxing and some of those Wtf fighting things are the only sports where the aim is to beat someones head to a pulp and the sooner they are banned the better. If they were just banned on TV, that would be a start.
Leading with the head is allowed in sumo wrestling, but its generally not the best tactic, so although it happens - particularly at the tachiai when a 45degree angle of impact is optimal you don't see it a lot after the tachiai. That said slapping and thrusting to the head is commonplace.
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They aren't. Spear tackling is de facto legal as long as you are tackling a runner. Helmet to helmet is only illegal if it's against the quarterback or against a player who has just caught the ball and hasn't had time to protect himself against the tackler.
Spear tackling used to be illegal, and there was a sticker attached to every NFL helmet saying it couldn't and shouldn't be used as a weapon. That seems to have gone now.
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I think I'd have taken the risk if I could have played professinal footballkritichris wrote: ↑Sat Nov 21, 2020 9:38 amJust had a look myself and found this:-
The study, which used recently digitised NHS Scotland data to compare the causes of death of 7,676 former male professional players who were born between 1900 and 1976 against those of more than 23,000 people from the general population, was hailed as the largest ever to look at the incidence of neurodegenerative disease in any sport by its head, Dr William Stewart.
Stewart’s team found that while ex-footballers live on average three and a quarter years longer than the normal population, 11 per cent of ex-professionals had died of dementia according to their death certificates compared to 3 per cent of the general public.
Link: https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/soccer ... -1.4057899
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What about Ben Mee who has perfected heading the ball whilst laid on the deck?
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I enjoy boxing, but I agree that at some point it will be banned and future generations will look back on it as barbaric.timshorts wrote: ↑Sat Nov 21, 2020 3:42 pmTackling with your head (a spear tackle) and helmet to helmet tackles are both personal fouls and 15 yard penalties (quite a lot).
Boxing and some of those Wtf fighting things are the only sports where the aim is to beat someones head to a pulp and the sooner they are banned the better. If they were just banned on TV, that would be a start.
Leading with the head is allowed in sumo wrestling, but its generally not the best tactic, so although it happens - particularly at the tachiai when a 45degree angle of impact is optimal you don't see it a lot after the tachiai. That said slapping and thrusting to the head is commonplace.
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I can't remember the rule being removed but either way it looks to have been coached out of the game as a deliberate rather than reckless tactic. That said, trying to dislodge the ball with a helmet seems to be lauded. I suppose it's pretty difficult to get right.
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As long as the heading isn’t political, religious, race or COVID-related, I think it should be allowed.