MoveToSkypager
Footballguy
You are making this way over complicated. What would you rather do? A) Bash your head against a wall B) Bash your knee against a wall.Start with the Zurich conference on concussions in sport, but the literature is too extensive and consistent in its findings thus far that there is no established link between concussions and neurodegenerative illness. You are assuming head injuries are what caused Marshall's suicide or Dorsett's cognitive and psychiatric issues when in fact these outcomes are multi-factorial and involve a whole lot more than concussion history.Link? I'd say that it's pretty clear that head injuries, can be a very debilitating thing, as evident by stories from guys like Tony Dorsett and Leonard Marshall...and those are the ones who have chosen to live with it vs. shooting themselves like Seau. I'm sure there may be an article or two that say otherwise, but I think there's a pretty clear causal link between concussions and SOMETHING bad for your brain long-term.The point is that extant research is pretty clear that concussions are not tied to long term impairments. The CTE industry has manufactured a lot of paranoia in the absence of any definitive causal link between mild head injuries and progressive syndromes. In fact, most of the literature and neuroscience as a whole rejects these claims.I'd rather tear an ACL than face the health issues concussions bring down the line. Now, as a player, you'd have to ask them.
I'd take ACL all day...you don't hear about Napoleon McCallum or Jamal Anderson shooting themselves or dealing with debilitating mental injuries after their careers are over.
Most of us would choose a knee.