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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DC, who has only ever played non-contact sports, sustained 2 fairly mild concussions coincidentally over the span of 6 months for non-sport reasons. (he's clumsy!) They affected literally every aspect of his life and it took a good while before he felt completely normal again. It could have been much worse...I imagine him playing a high contact sport and facing repeated head hits/full-on concussions and shudder, and this made it more clear to me why I could never have supported him playing football.[/quote]

Or he could have played four years of football and never gotten a concussion.  Just because he is a spaz does not necessarily translate to football injuries.[/quote]

OK, but anecdotally to your hypothetical....I come from a football family. You don't play 4 year of football (assume you mean HS?) you play from say 8-14 first, then 14-18, so that's 10 years and pads go on young in a lot of places. Because I come from this kind of family, most of them played 4 MORE years in Division 1 schools. Not a single one has gotten off concussion free- even those who stopped after HS, and most were WR, not too many in my family built for either line.[/quote]

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