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The men competing in the National Football League (NFL) and Major League Baseball (MLB) are some of the most elite athletes in the world. But their death rates differ markedly, a new study of thousands of former pro athletes has found. Former pro football players had a higher overall death rate than baseball veterans and were felled by cardiovascular disease and neurodegenerative illnesses at strikingly higher rates than their MLB peers. On average, the football players died 7 years earlier than MLB players, the research found.
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The 517 former NFL players who died during that 35-year period did so at an average age of 59.6 years; the baseball players at 66.7 years. By far the largest cause of death for the football players was heart disease: It was listed as a cause of death for 498 of the 517 NFL players surveyed. By contrast, brain disease contributed to just 39 of those deaths. Among the former MLB players, there were 431 deaths, with heart disease listed as a cause in 225 of them and neurodegenerative disease in 16.
Data analysis.
Hmm, could it be sublimated guilt over their mistreatment of nerds in high school?
(Score: 1, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Monday May 27 2019, @05:49PM (2 children)
I don't think it's the 'roids. Play some tackle football yourself, even with helmet and pads, then imagine doing that as your day-job for years at a time. If there's any drug-related reason for their ill-health it's the prescription painkillers handed out on the plane like candy by quack doctors.
Even at the high school level I saw many a motherfucker taken off the field in an ambulance, and I have 2 injuries I sustained then that still occasionally aggravate to this day -- the middle of my spine from hitting a guy with my head down, and I also took a lateral hit to my right knee when somebody who was already tackled fell into it. I've been in car accidents that weren't even close to the kind of hits I took on the field. That's why the term "de-cleated" is a thing, because people can and do get hit so hard that their helmet or shoe will fly off. It's amazing how much abuse the human body can tolerate.
Recent NFL games are nothing like how football used to be. There are all kinds of overprotective rules about roughing passers and receivers, and quarterbacks have adopted the defensive technique of flopping (grossly exaggerating the effects of being hit) anytime you even tap them on the shoulder. Plus, the Jews are trying to feminize and ultimately destroy American football because they believe that the only tribalism that should be allowed is theirs.
(Score: 3, Informative) by PartTimeZombie on Monday May 27 2019, @09:16PM (1 child)
Oh good lord! A perfectly sane comment ruined by one weird rant.
(Score: 2) by krishnoid on Monday May 27 2019, @11:41PM
I know, right? He was totally on the wrong set of rails until that last sentence when he caught himself and got back on track. I'm guessing he's tired.