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Originally Posted by bojesphob
I agree with this. When I played football in high school, I was one of the very few who had had a concussion (well, I had 2, but one wasn't football related). My nephew who played soccer SUPER competitively had around 4 by the time he was out of high school, and he said that several other players which had multiple as well. If it's the continuous hits that are causing the issue, and not just concussions, I would think that football would have a higher instance of it. But, if it's concussions that are a root cause, then soccer is going to be hitting this point in another 30-40 years when all of the youngsters who thought that soccer was more safe start getting to the same age as the NFL stars that have it bad.
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Concussions are the problem, but it is also the repeated blows play after play which soccer avoids a lot of for the most part.
One report I read in WSJ by one of the doctors who had doubted the impact and then changed their minds, said football is like riding around and IED's going off around you for 60 minutes every Sunday.