Gun perspective...

[Left Seater]

That’s spot on and would be funny if it wasn’t true.

[Kierland]

If the refs have a helmet than I should get one too.

[Shlomart Ben Yisrael]

"You can have my helmet when you pry it off my big dumb fat head..."


Oh...wait...

:doh:

[Left Seater]

We need helmet free zones immediately! Or at least safe rooms where triggered snowflakes can escape the threat of helmets.

[Shlomart Ben Yisrael]

We need helmet free zones immediately! Or at least safe rooms where triggered snowflakes can escape the threat of helmets.

ok boomer

[Left Seater]

Wrong generation.

[Shlomart Ben Yisrael]

ok fatso

[BSmack]

Or you could actually mandate that chin straps not break off just because somebody's pulling on the helmet. That would be somewhat simple. Since helmets are replaced constantly you're not adding much extra cost to a multi billion dollar industry that really cares about player safety.

[Shlomart Ben Yisrael]

Or you could actually mandate that chin straps not break off just because somebody's pulling on the helmet.

The break off for a reason. What you're proposing is potentially lethal.

[BSmack]

Makes as much sense as the rest of this thread. Maybe we devise a HANS system like NASCAR drivers. That way all the NFL players look like they're the freaking Hunchback in 300.

[Shlomart Ben Yisrael]

Maybe we devise a HANS system like NASCAR drivers.

That kind of already exists...it's called a "neck roll", but many players either don't wear one or wear a diminished version of one, as it's not league mandated...and players claim it restricts mobility.

It's a rough game. That is all.

[Dr_Phibes]

They should make the helmets vibrate. After you get hit, headaches and a stiff neck would be a thing of the past.

[smackaholic]

Wrong generation.

I was gonna say the same. I barely make the cutoff for "boomer" and I believe i have close to a decade on you.

What is the "boomer" range? I think it is 45-65 dob.

What is next? gen X, I think.

I have been noticing recently that "boomer" seems to be the favorite slur these days used by thirty somethings to tell those over 50 to STFU.

[BSmack]

Maybe we devise a HANS system like NASCAR drivers.

That kind of already exists...it's called a "neck roll", but many players either don't wear one or wear a diminished version of one, as it's not league mandated...and players claim it restricts mobility.

It's a rough game. That is all.

I remember neck rolls from the 1980s. The bigger the neck roll the more likely you were to be playing middle linebacker.

[smackaholic]

Kind of silly that they are still using 50 year old helmet technology.

The answer seems simple. Make a thin outer shell with some sort of dampening between it and the inner helmet. It would be larger, but not much heavier. And when used as a club, it would be less effective.

[Innocent Bystander]

There's a Dr. Stephen Cito, DDS, reset in there, somewhere. Damed if I can find it.

There's also probably a knife version out there for Muslims and the EU. Anyway, rack you, Papa.

[mvscal]

Kind of silly that they are still using 50 year old helmet technology.

The answer seems simple. Make a thin outer shell with some sort of dampening between it and the inner helmet. It would be larger, but not much heavier. And when used as a club, it would be less effective.

Like that^^^^.

I remember discussing this with my father when I was 11 years old (1975) after some player had gotten a concussion in a game we were watching. Obviously - two soft surfaces hitting each other are subfuckingstantially going to reduce the chances of getting a concussion.

One reason I have no respect for the players who cry about later-in-life brain problems, is because the players have HAD the option to wear padding on the outside (like in the picture above), but don't because as so many put it "It looks stupid"...

Well - there you are.

It's impossible to stop concussions with helmets of any kind. It's a simple matter of physics. If you are moving forward and then your forward progress is instantly stopped, you brain is going to slosh around in your skull. There are no Star Trek inertial dampener helmets available.

[Derron]

Wrong generation.

I was gonna say the same. I barely make the cutoff for "boomer" and I believe i have close to a decade on you.

What is the "boomer" range? I think it is 45-65 dob.

What is next? gen X, I think.

I have been noticing recently that "boomer" seems to be the favorite slur these days used by thirty somethings to tell those over 50 to STFU.

Millennials are 1981 to 1996

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennials

Gen X is mid 1960's to mid 1980's per wiki. Little bit of over lap there I would say.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_X

Millennials love using the term boomer when complaining about their inability to have a decent job, saying the boomers have fucked up the economy for them. Fucking pussys have more assets, better jobs and living situations than most of us did at that age.

[Shlomart Ben Yisrael]

The generation of self-centered avarice that left nothing for it's children and grandchildren except debt and a mop to clean up after their party.

[EAP]

Wrong generation.

I was gonna say the same. I barely make the cutoff for "boomer" and I believe i have close to a decade on you.

What is the "boomer" range? I think it is 45-65 dob.

What is next? gen X, I think.

I have been noticing recently that "boomer" seems to be the favorite slur these days used by thirty somethings to tell those over 50 to STFU.

Millennials are 1981 to 1996

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennials

Gen X is mid 1960's to mid 1980's per wiki. Little bit of over lap there I would say.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_X

Millennials love using the term boomer when complaining about their inability to have a decent job, saying the boomers have fucked up the economy for them. Fucking pussys have more assets, better jobs and living situations than most of us did at that age.

Add to that barry's total reversal of JFK's "ask not what your country can do for you",
Plus his ramping up of entitlements of all kinds, and you've got a prescription for disaster which ultimately leads to 3rd world status real fast.

Those who truly understand history such as 88 and yours truly, see these manifestations with crystal clear clarity.