A Boston University study found that 96% of the deceased NFL players brains they examined had CTE. Rates are beleived to be much lower in Rugby, however, there is research being done that suggests the sport can also contribute to the condition. Repeated small traumas appear to lead to the condition as well as heavier impacts and concussions. A few sources: www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/new-87-deceased-nfl-players-test-positive-for-brain-disease | www.bu.edu/research/articles/bu-led-study-may-explain-cte-without-concussions | www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-34249187

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Steve M It's usually the locks (4 and 5) that are in a second row of the scrum, wear those helmets to protect their ears from being ripped off rather than protecting their head.

@@fargo7018 How about Refrigerator Perry sized players at every position?

@@fargo7018 LOL that comment just made me laugh, how much weed do you smoke?

Something a person in a sport would say.

Rugby has the same problem as the NFL and other levels of the game

Justin Rodriguez their brains came up with the no helmet rule, that’s how smart they are

But if you have helmets, you lead with your head which puts more force through the brain

*well if you do hit your head it’s very rare and is usually because you or your opponent has really shit technique

But without helmet, you’re forced to tackle property and you wouldn’t see head to head collisions as often but with helmet, you’re forced to accept head collision and because you have protection, you’re incentivizing people to go full body contact like a RAM 🐏 charging at you

Are you more likely to smash someone aggressively using your head while there a hard shelled heavy weapon on it, or when if you do that your actual face will get smashed also

All the football players that died in the early 1900’s playing helmet-less football are laughing their ghost-asses off at you.

@@WBookout10 That’s because there’s lack of safety rules. The game was just developing. Duh

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Lmao they do that because when you have that gear on you feel like you cant get hurt

@@curvywurvy3889 really? Whenever I play tackle football with my helmet it feels horrible if I get a wrong hit and get my helmet hit

@@hwiseongahn lol yeah I usually dont lead with my head too much tho bc it hurts my neck but when i gett hit and fall over and smack my head it feels waaay better with a helmet on in my opinion

@@curvywurvy3889 oh that is true if someone slaps my helmet or i hit the turf it won’t hurt at all compared to without one

@@hwiseongahn id prob have a concussion if it weren’t for that helmet

joelucky39 yes but you hit harder with with pads and a helmet and if you change more players would naturally tackle lower and with less rate of contact and decrease sub concussive and concussive blows

Minolta4Life I like hitting people better

Have you ever considered that you didn’t hit your “head” on the ground at all. Your helmet hit the ground. No helmet in many cases means no head-contact with the ground at all. Add to this the fact that many kids have been given helmets that are not fitted for them and you’ve now got a rattling head inside a helmet... Nobody gets on a motorcycle with the intention of using their helmet. It’s there for emergency. Give them something that more resembles the old school helmet or what’s used in rugby; something that protects their crown only, the same modern pads, and keep the same rules as they are. Notice: rugby players suffer nowhere near the same amount of concussions.

@@dshehiHonestTune Wearing helmet on a motorcycle is a no brainer. You’re going miles faster. But playing flag football with no helmet or any gear, you never see people risk their bodies on the line because you know that you will get hurt. But wearing gear, you’re protected, which means you are incentivized to put your bodies on the line, go full battering ram on someone. That’s the opposite of protecting your body.

​@@dshehiHonestTuneeven if your head fits snugly in the helmet the brain will still move inside the skull, so unfortunately well fitted helmets only helps slightly.

That’s because rules have change, especially safety rules. Notice that you never see head to head collision in Rugby, but in the NFL you have guys going head to head because you know you’re protected, basically because you have protection, you’re using it as a battering ram.

​@@alohatigers1199you do actually but they're illegal, especially nowadays. Unfortunately many rugby players develop CTE, so much so in fact that two of the largest national rugby union governing bodies are being sued by hundreds of affected players (RFU and the WRU). It's not just about head on collisions, any rattling of the head is enough to cause damage or violent head jerks, which are causing the brain to hit the skull and causing strains and tears to vital brain tissue. Also, in rugby union we have rucks and scrums which can be quite brutal on the head, fortunately those don't exist in American football.

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We hit harder tho

@@jonathanmarez7184 we do rugby players just have technique when they tackle we just ram into players

@@jonathanmarez7184 And yet rugby is a tougher rougher sport than American Football, proper hits without pads. Rugby players learn to tackle correctly early on. Sometimes a bit of blood but way less ridiculous injuries because of the limits of the body not the pads. Just like bare knuckle boxing compared to boxing and mma, it's actually much safer.

@@denzle83 no if it was a 1v1 football vs your trash sport we would win

@@jonathanmarez7184 I suppose an older, safer and worldwide sport which Americans seem to cringe at due its brutality whilst science is proving that pads are bad for American football players is a cause for argument of who wins. Anyways merry Christmas.

That general concept works fairly well for Rugby. The biggest difference being the lining and up and launching from the line of scrimmage in football. Would be interesting to see if something like that worked to both decrease hits to the head that full helmets allow for, as well as protect from the incidental contact that is bound to happen throughout the game.

That won't help. The brain still bounces around inside the skull.

@@cheddar my mind is absolutely blown by the amount of people in this comment section that actually think that not only is this a good idea, but that it’s a new and unique one. You do realize that football was played for DECADES without helmets in the late 1800s/1900s, and they averaged 10-30 deaths per year amongst active college players in the early 1900s before helmets became mandatory? You think going back to that is a good idea? And the average NCAA/NFL players today are WAY bigger, stronger, and faster than back then, which means WAY more force on impact. Using a no-name helmet less league that a small number of random people play in is no comparison to the sample size of athletes in the NCAA/NFL. If the stupidity of this still hasn’t sunk in yet, go look up the story of the first football helmet from one of the early Army-Navy games, and why it was made and worn in the first place. And stop comparing rugby and football- they’re two completely different sports with different rules that result in different levels of contact. And lastly, @chat sports, “a form-fitting protective shell over the forehead and skull”? You literally just described a football helmet.

….no… because the human brain is a solid mass with the comparative consistency and texture of jello, that sits in a fluid completely disconnected from the human skull. It floats. Any sudden sharp jolts or shocks or stops or smashes are disturbing and damaging it in at least some way. What’s more important than just actually trying to make the game safer by changing rules or elements to it, is actually noticing the moment and incident of any concussive jolt to a persons head. Even if it’s incredibly minor and they claim to feel fine. Taking that person away from the game immediately, then giving and allowing the proper time and requirements for rest and recovery. We’re all doing even slight damage to our neural pathways and brain synapses just going about our days in the world. But the major difference is when you’re a fulltime pro athlete, forced to play games and practices day in and day out, your body is never given that time to begin healing any damage. Thereby not only causing more permanent harm but increasing the ongoing severity of the spreading dislodged synapses already spreading dangerous toxins throughout your brain.

@@WBookout10 I agree with what you said. But we do live in a different time. You referred to the point of time and history when they introduced helmets for the sport, but this was still the time of and love for a variety of other spectacle-attended blood sports. That’s not so much the case now. Perhaps our modern sensitivities have enlightened us enough to the point where the removal of the helmet, along with referee-monitored strict enforcement and monitoring of players offence and defensive strategies, may prevent many players from landing and taking these head first blows.

Okay so like u guys have no grabing of the face mask rule. Then implement a rule where height tackles i.e above the shoulders and illegal tackle. Rugby players charge in with shoulders and hightackles don’t occur as often as one would think. They do still happen occasionally but u can’t make a contact sport 100% safe now can u.

Meant high tackles not height tackles, sorry

It's difficult to hit someones head solely with your shoulder. I've seen it attempted in rugby and it rarely works out well for the guy trying to lead with his shoulder. The problem is your head wants to get your shoulder to turn out the way to allow your arms and hands to come up and through for the tackle.

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I think that would be a problem, players that have headhunted their entire lives and played with helmets might instinctively do the same without a helmet, to devastating consequences

GOTTshua yah but I still got a concussion from playing neighborhood football

I never got hurt playing neighborhood tackle football without helmets

Do you have litterly any source for this.

Dont play!!! You love the sport or you don't!

Just make the helmets smaller or have football wear the old leather helmets they wore when football was first played

Not always but when players aren't leaning in with their heads for tackle it makes it less likely for them to hit their heads as well as they don't run at each other full speed

I much prefer the term "hand egg" myself. Much better than even "sports ball" !

Yeah, "hand egg" isn't bad either and it is a much more popular term. I think egg is more fitting for the helmet version though since you crack eggs and the helmets make similar happen to your skull but if we remove the helmets and want to get away from the negativity surrounding the name then ovoid makes a lot of sense.

Or gridiron?

Or they could just call it rugby league because that's pretty much what it would be.

@@JFP1988 shh, don't tell the 'mericans that, it won't catch on if they don't think they came up with it

Richard Jorissen we're special :)

Cause they’re different sports? Why do y’all play cricket and not baseball? Do y’all just want to be special, or is there a reason?

Aes the tic cricket is way better than baseball tho.

America always does different versions of things (sometimes good, sometimes bad), just like american "football" is a bad version of rugby, and baseball is a good version of cricket, but what do you spect of a country that measures in a total different way than the rest of the world just because. American football and baseball are just the tip of the iceberg.

Richard Jorissen Yes America is special. It’s the American way. Coming from a Canadian recognizing American exceptionalism.

Dirk Kuyt I love this

Dirk Kuyt that would make it worse did you watch the vid?

I want this now

Maybe that's not a bad idea. Maybe strijes shoukd be eliminated frim the sport.

also in rugby its against the rule to even touch the head during the tackle and there is no bashes like in american football, in england I played a modified version of american football with my mates where you could only tackle by wrapping the arms and could only tackle below the shoulders, very few hits to the head

Not really, tackles are just as aggressive but high tackles are illegal.

Because they are fighting. Pro wrestlers always care about safety because like WWE, you’re not here to hurt your co-workers, you’re here to entertain. NFL, wearing helmets encouraged people to hit anyone as hard as your can. Like a ram. Without helmet, you’re not stupid enough to risk your body on the line.

You seriously don't understand how bad cte is

I disagree. Your knuckles are one of the weakest bones.

He’s playing the game unless it’s a spear it’s fair game

Notice that you never see this in rugby compare to NFL. Wearing helmets means you’re encouraging people to use it as a BATTERING RAM and hit people as hard as you can. You see a lot of those in the nfl. You never see this in rugby because safety is important. That’s the opposite of what a Helmet is intended.

Then make it rugby style. No tackling above the shoulders or nothing above it in general. And have them wrap around or "bear hug"with proper rugby style tackling, add fancy neck stabilizers and still keep all the padding. Boom! Safer football.

@@user-fs8hk7qs9d Exactly this is why Rugby is better and more safe

John Quill Taylor bro that sounds real

You can rely on jerseys, socks, shoes, gloves, knee pads, elbow pads. Helmet doesn’t define NFL.

Where are you getting that information about many people dying from cracked skulls in Rugby? That is not actually true.

rugby head and facial issues are a real thing maybe i was wrong about people dying because of cracked skulls in rugby but people have died from full speed head collisions. and what are you talking about possibly stopping brain injuries? If i hit you hard enough to knock you to the ground and you fall on your head you will most likely not be okay. (Watch this video for evidence that rugby has brutal head hits that will happen to players who play with no helmets.) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/j9h6p9Sg0M2uYac.html

The reason why American football has helmets is because of Theodore Roosevelt and the deathes in the very early 1900s. Helmets prevent sudden catastrophic deaths. If your skull is cracked open, your brain can spill out, and you can bleed out. CTE comes from the brain bouncing around in the skull. Helmets were never instituted to prevent concussion or brain injury but from instances of sudden death on the field which is still very possible.

Limit players body weight??? What r u chatting about???

Evan Fowler rip

CTE inbound I play linebacker and refuse to do anything with my head

How?

You never see this often in rugby