281 concussions were officially reported in the league this season (2017-18), six times more than ever.
The new short film, “Field of Vision - Concussion Protocol:”, claims to have each of the 281 in this video released February 1 2018, on the website theintercept.com.
In super slow motion and ultra fast speed, filmmaker Josh Begley’s production, accentuates the collisions set to an eerie music score appropriately orchestrated by Samora Pinderhughes.
The results of the impacts are quite obvious.
Pittsburgh Steeler Hall of Fame center and captain, Iron Mike Webster, played tens of thousands of snaps during his 17 seasons in the NFL starting on four Super Bowl winning teams.
Considered possibly the best at his position to ever play the game, the Wisconsin native Webster was selected All-Pro seven times.
His prolific career remains an afterthought when it was reported that he suffered from Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) a widely accepted brain condition thought to be caused by several career concussions.
Webster died of a heart attack at age 50. The autopsy of his brain has changed the sport of football forever.
In this excerpt from the Frontline documentary, “League of Denial”, PBS chronicles some of the head trauma that was discovered after his death.
Nigerian physician Dr. Bennet Omalu’s autopsy of Iron Mike linked CTE to football and was featured in the movie “Concussion”. The scene suggests that football killed the famous Steeler.
G-force (gravitational force) is measured by an accelerometer and can accurately determine the amount of acceleration measured in football collisions.
ESPN’s Sports Science segment gives us an idea of what can happen when players crash into each other while playing America’s favorite sport.
We’re sorry if we ruined your Super Bowl buzz but the game is the most aggressive on earth and the players are people too.
Many scientists attest that CTE may exist in nearly every player to ever play football but not many will ever endure the health hardships of one of the games most beloved players, Iron Mike Webster, he will forever remain ground zero of an ongoing problem that may ultimately destroy the game.
And so it goes.
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