Ryan Miller and Head Trauma

[RiverBuff]

Article in NYTimes about Ryan Miller and his struggles with head trauma:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/17/...on=click&module=Editors Picks&pgtype=Homepage

 

[rodrigo]

This quote obviously jumps out:

"He’s not a college football abolitionist, not quite. He loved the camaraderie and the strategy and the athleticism even as he knows the bottom line. 'You are there to make money for the university. You are a lesser priced whore.'”

It left me wondering if schools/tv/the football industrial complex don't owe student/athletes something more.

All the best to Ryan.

 

[Jello Bear]

As a football fan, that didn't feel too good to read.

 

[MiamiBuffs]

As a football fan, that didn't feel too good to read.

This one explains why ther is no sollution: University of Colorado officials spoke to me of their hope to make a safer helmet. Would that have helped?

Miller sighed. “You just become a better missile,” he said.


Ive stopped watching the game in part over this issue. Ted Johnson was the beginning of slowly building body of evidence that the sport as its played now is ruining young mens lives.

 

[leftybuff]

I have not stopped watching FB, but I watch it differently now. I have almost no interest whatsoever in the NFL, but admittedly, the concussion angle is a small part of that lost interest.

Every time I read an article like this, I grow more relieved I pointed my boy away from FB.

 

[Big Jim]

This one explains why ther is no sollution: University of Colorado officials spoke to me of their hope to make a safer helmet. Would that have helped?

Miller sighed. “You just become a better missile,” he said.


Ive stopped watching the game in part over this issue. Ted Johnson was the beginning of slowly building body of evidence that the sport as its played now is ruining young mens lives.

Now?

College football was almost abolished within the first two decades of it’s existence because of the number of deaths that occurred playing the game.

My friend played in the famous Ice Bowl NFL championship game for Dallas against Green Bay. Ten years ago he told me that an alarmingly high number of his NFL contemporaries had brain damage that had left them with ruined lives in their final decades.

I can appreciate not wanting to watch the game any longer. Gladiator sports ruin the gladiators while the fans screaming for blood get their blood.

I do not see any substantial advancement in the safety of the game, nor any worsening of safety either. The fans will get their blood.

 

[Bison]

Never can forget Ryan Miller being so nice to tap on my shoulder at Tokyo Joe's at SW plaza mall and tell me that my order was ready when he was a senior at Columbine HS. Very unfortunate this head trauma happened to someone that nice.

 

[Mick Ronson]

i hate to hear about Ryan's situation.

I lived in CU Fam Housing right there by the practice fields for several years during the Hawkins "era".....and once Ryan saw me almost crash my bike.....and i don't really remember how i got out of control on the creek path but i recovered somewhat miraculously.....and he was standing there in pads after practice and had seen the whole thing.....and he said with a huge smile: "Wow, that was AMAZING". or something. and we both just started laughing.

seemed like a really good guy. and CO kid who could have gone anywhere and stayed home to play for the Buffs....I remember that.