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Originally Posted by dammage79
I've always been of the mindset that professional athletes have always known what they signed up for when they got to the pros. And even with the knowledge gained the past decade regarding CTE parents still put their kids through hockey or football knowing full well there's a potential negative outcome.
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That's asking someone to use logical information to make an emotional decision, which is an extremely hard thing for most people to do. These athletes have grown up with this dream, their heroes are NHL players, now they have the chance to play? No amount of factual information is going to overcome that desire to have your dreams come true. At the age they are starting out, they don't believe anything will happen to them. Then they get used to the lifestyle and money and it's hard to walk away, especially since they may not have other marketable skills is hockey was their main focus during school.
I don't think it's right to say, oh well, you knew what you were getting into. Too bad.