ESPN Football Analyst Walks Away, Disturbed by Brain Trauma on Field

Re:ESPN Football Analyst Walks Away, Disturbed by Brain Trau... by bglazer on Thursday August 31, 2017 @02:57PM (#15142816)

Virtually every example of a "big hit" in that video ends with the person who got hit showing the fencing response (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fencing_response). That body pose indicates a pretty severe concussion.

In fact, the most popular video on YouTube about the fencing response has a shocking amount of overlap with the "big hits" video you shared. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlXjwAlOflA

Frankly, your video was kind of hard to watch. It's basically 3 minutes of people getting their brains rattled in their skulls.

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Re:ESPN Football Analyst Walks Away, Disturbed by Brain Trau... by mrspeaker on Thursday August 31, 2017 @03:04PM (#15142865)

That's true! I didn't think about it because it was a collection of "rare" events - hitting above the shoulders is not a valid tackle. Usually won't get these hits in a game.

But still, obviously it certainly exists, and I'm sure there is a lot of head trauma every year.

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