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Originally Posted by GioforPM
No, but they collide with their heads and get hit in the head, on almost every play, especially in the line. That's akin to fighting (as opposed to falling, normal checking, etc).
Compare football to rugby, where arm tackling is predominant.
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Same issues exist in Rugby. I just did a google search and quite a few articles popped right up talking about the same things we are here.
Football definitely has more head contact that hockey, but there is still plenty of head contact in hockey as part of the regular game, and these guys heads get snapped back violently all the time by body checks.
Anyways, I'm not arguing that contact sports don't lead to CTE and other issues. It's pretty evident to me that they do. Never going to get rid of it though unless contact sports stopped being played.
I'm saying that the risk is known, so if you play those sports professionally, I have a hard understanding how you can sue the league you willingly participated in placing the fault on them. At some point you have to sit back and say you signed up for this, especially when your own player's union is the NHL's biggest road block in making any significant changes.