The National Football League players union, alarmed that its members die nearly 20 years earlier on average than other American men, has selected Harvard University to oversee a $100 million accelerated research initiative aimed at treating and ultimately preventing the broad-ranging health problems plaguing the athletes.
Legions of Harvard specialists from across its many schools and affiliated hospitals will team up with the NFL Players Association in an unprecedented study of 1,000 retired players. The researchers will look at everything from their repetitive brain traumas, torn knee ligaments, and arthritic joints to the gnawing effects of long-term exposure to acute pain and chronic use of painkillers.
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I'll save Harvard 99 million. Stop tackling. That will be one million dollars, please.
Hopefully there will be attention to the intersection of football with the other major public health epidemic of the day, obesity. How many pounds can a human frame support before it is unhealthy? There are some changes to the game which are relatively easy to make, without dismantling the entire game and industry. Putting a weight limit on participation could happen overnight.
$100,000,000. For Research. To a HUGE Corperation. (Trust me, Harvard IS a Corporation) Purpose? To avoid, as much as possible, ponying up cash to players and their families whose lives have been forever altered by TBIs while playing football. Dodge & Weave, Baby! This is absolute B.S.
It actually takes that much money to confirm the OBVIOUS? How about we skip lining pockets and put the money into
refiguring the game to not destroy its most important asset. Most effort will be how to NOT to change too much but
look as though great change has taken place.
The utterly simple fact is ' you bang your brain around and it will take you down with it' . Now if life has offered no other
opportunities, well then go ahead as it would not matter anyway.
Do you mean to tell me Harvard has no better ways to spend its money? Remind me to never give Harvard so much as another penny.
If you read the article you'd see that Harvard will be spending the NFL's money, not its own. So, by your own logic, you should be declining to give the NFL "so much as another penny".
Let's see if Harvard scientists really CAN work across the campus(es) in teams! There may be many firsts in this project!