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Originally Posted by Iginla
Now show me where I said sport players don't suffer concussions.
I think it's absurd to link this story to headshots. Guys kill their girlfriends and then themselves for many reasons.
It COULD be related to headshots but highly unlikely. You don't kill your girlfriend because you have a concussion. Unless it comes out that he did suffer from concussions and that was the reason he killed himself and his girlfriend then it would be willfully ignorant of the other problems he could have suffered from.
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"Probably none."
in direct assessment to Tinordi wondering how head injuries effected it.
Now, your posit that it's unlikely head injuries had anything to do with it is massively uneducated. The suicides and murder/suicides associated with people like Junior Seau, Chris Benoit, Wade Belak etc. and now Belcher show a common theme of psychoactive pharmaceuticals and brain trauma. When a guy takes multiple head injuries it drastically alters his quality of life and his ability to control his thoughts and behavior.
These guys take multiple head injuries over their career but they don't say anything because they are trained to act like tough guys by being punished when they complain and they also don't want to miss playing a game because they feel they will be replaced and lose income. What you see as a bunch of healthy athletes that bounce back from seemingly brutal hits is in reality a bunch of brain damaged, drugged up athletes that are afraid they will be replaced if they complain. It's most prevalent with the type of players that are bruisers, take a guy like William Perry (aka "The Fridge"), I'd bet money that he is suffering massively right now from his NFL career. It's likely that he has trouble sleeping and has random outbursts that he cannot control.