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PeaceWave

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Tue Jul 29, 2025, 01:13 PM Jul 29

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He never played in the NFL MichMan Jul 29 #1
This message was self-deleted by its author PeaceWave Jul 29 #4
Thank you for the movie trailer. love_katz Jul 29 #2
Concussion- very informative. Poorgirl Jul 29 #3
Watch this - they spoke with his high school coach malaise Jul 29 #5
Just to be clear- he was a running back on a high school football team. milestogo Jul 29 #6

MichMan

(15,983 posts)
1. He never played in the NFL
Tue Jul 29, 2025, 02:28 PM
Jul 29

Why target NFL executives that had zero to do with any it ? Because they also play the same game?

All I have seen about his football career was back in High School. Based on that logic, he should have shot up the HS instead

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love_katz

(3,165 posts)
2. Thank you for the movie trailer.
Tue Jul 29, 2025, 02:32 PM
Jul 29

I don't have Net Flicks, and I canceled Amazon several months ago. The film looks important, so I hope that many DUers will watch it.
I think that what we have been seeing for some time, is the cumulative effects of the toxic masculinity culture that has roots going far back in time.
Within the last week, or so, someone posted a thread that said that professional sports became a big deal because some men put forth the idea that American men weren't manly enough? So, the idea was that men needed to watch, bond over, and participate in rough sports to make them tougher?
It looks to me like this film could link up sick social ideas that could contribute to mass shootings. A culture that teaches and rewards the idea that might makes right results in brutality of all sorts: mass shootings and stabbings, random attacks, rape and molestation, child abuse, and a government regime that wants to commit the ultimate violence: destruction of democracy and creation of a brutal theocracy and dictatorship.
The threads are visible. When will enough of us connect the dots?

Poorgirl

(6 posts)
3. Concussion- very informative.
Tue Jul 29, 2025, 02:52 PM
Jul 29

I have not watched any football since watching the movie. It is disgusting that we allow the destruction of young men's brains.

malaise

(289,434 posts)
5. Watch this - they spoke with his high school coach
Tue Jul 29, 2025, 03:13 PM
Jul 29

milestogo

(21,865 posts)
6. Just to be clear- he was a running back on a high school football team.
Tue Jul 29, 2025, 03:17 PM
Jul 29

He did not play college football nor was he ever in the NFL, so this has nothing to do with the NFL. NFL players are informed of the CTE risk when they sign their contracts. I don't know about high school players.

Young athletes can get CTE but the only way to tell if an individual has or had it is by testing brain tissue on autopsy.

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