[seaborneq]

It came out on Christmas day. That seems mighty quick. Could the NFL have something to do with it? Is it still playing in your neck of the woods????

[trytrytry]

saw it 1 week ago. i enjoyed it Ive been a bit anti NFL for a few reasons including that serious issue for about a decade . they have quite a bit of real NFL film footage (and some make believe clips as well depicting NFL but not real), I did wonder how they got approval for that real stuff (you know the old express written consent of NFL for footage). Anybody know??

[newguy]

Anyone here actually go see it? If not you may have your answer.

[blackHIPPY]

i have no interest to watch a movie about football
i have even less interest in watching a movie about football injuries

[DwightShrute]

because it was a shitty movie. The 30 second trailer was better than the movie. A 20-minute segment on 20/20 would have suffice. Smith's character was not believable. Maybe his worst movie. I almost fell asleep.
2/10

[FlipsideRM]

Looked like an awful movie, including will smith trying to pull off a Zimbabweesque voice over

[VeggieDog]

because it was a shitty movie. The 30 second trailer was better than the movie. A 20-minute segment on 20/20 would have suffice. Smith's character was not believable. Maybe his worst movie. I almost fell asleep.
2/10

Maybe his old lady will boycott something if he doesn't win an award.

[DwightShrute]

Looked like an awful movie, including will smith trying to pull off a Zimbabweesque voice over

Honestly I rather watch a Hillary Clinton speech or suffer a real concussion.

[seaborneq]

I thought I was going to see it, but there is not a NFL team in my state, strickly a ncaa football state here. Might have something to do with it. I could see it being a bad watch. But I sure loved my self some Playmakers...................But the NFL shut it down after 1 season

[smitch124]

As a football fan I've already tired of the concussion subject quite awhile ago. A full length movie on the subject is about the last thing I'd opt to see.

[iifold]

Anybody know??

Could be wrong but I think the Fair Use Act allows them to use footage...

[unde0087]

That's odd, no one wants to watch a movie about the guy turning football into a flag football league? Shocker

[RickyRoma]

Looks like will Smith and his shitty accent destroyed what have shoulda been a moving flick. Too bad

[zizoudane10]

Don't like Will Smith, dude is highly annoying imo....
That said, I'll still watch it one day.

[Mr KLC]

The foundation, which studies concussions and brain injuries, said Wednesday that 138 of 152 former college football players studied at the Veterans Affairs-Boston University-Concussion Legacy Foundation brain bank have chronic traumatic encephalopathy, more commonly known as CTE.

CTE is a degenerative condition that can be caused by repeated head trauma. CTE can lead to memory loss, dementia and erratic behavior, though it can only be officially diagnosed by direct examination of the brain after death.

The disease and its connection to sports like football where head trauma can repeatedly occur became more common after an HBO “Real Sports” feature on the topic and “Concussion,” the movie starring Will Smith that was released in 2015.

The 91 percent of brains with CTE is similar to numbers released by the foundation in September 2015 regarding NFL players. The CLF said then that 96 percent of NFL players’ brains tested positive for CTE. The foundation said two-thirds of the former college players who were found to have CTE also played professionally.

It is, of course, imperative to note that the numbers are only relevant to the brains studied by the foundation. It’s reasonable to assume that the majority of brains for head trauma study are donated because of possible issues. But given the rate of discovery, it’s unreasonable to assume that CTE isn’t common among all people who have played football for a considerable amount of time.

http://snip.ly/wjwqw#http://sports.y...210027021.html

[CWD]

im all over this when it drops maybe even day 1

[Mr KLC]

A promising athlete, 13-year-old Zackery Lystadt’s head hit the ground as he rolled through a routine tackle in 2006. He didn’t lose consciousness. But he did lie on the ground for a moment after the play, clutching the sides of his helmet. His coach took him out for two plays.

Then Lystadt played the rest of the game. At the closing whistle he collapsed and was rushed to the hospital, where he required emergency neurosurgery to relieve pressure inside his skull.

Today Lystadt is learning to walk again. The state of Washington created a new law in his name, sometimes known as the “shake it off” law, which requires players who show signs of concussion to be examined and cleared by a medical practitioner prior to re-entering a game.

But what about damage short of a concussion? What’s happening in the brains of kids who play football and don’t show outward signs of injury?

In the journal Radiology today, an imaging study shows that players ages 8 to 13 who have had no concussion symptoms still show changes associated with traumatic brain injury.

“We aren't out to destroy football, by any means,” he said. “This is the type of work that's going to save and help football going forward.”

He argues that about 70 percent of youth football players are playing outside of some national organization's oversight—like Pop Warner or USA Football. If such organizations had could make rules based on the latest research as it emerges—about what’s safe and what’s not—youth football might be a reasonable idea.

But as the game is currently played, today’s evidence isn’t reassuring. There’s a fallacy that comes up a lot in public health, and I think it’s happening here. We tend to let inertia influence our decisions. Instead of evaluating everything on its face, we keep doing what we’ve been doing until there’s blatant reason to stop. At this point I think we should be aware of that tendency, and revert to a place of proving that football can be played safely by kids before we keep letting them do it.

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/ar...-heads/504863/

[Jayvegas420]

Did anyone see Spaceman?