GoBuckeyes
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I don't know how others took what he said, but my heart broke for him. He seems to be a very sweet, kind, good man. He also knew the victims were also good people.
When anyone murders someone their own families... unless they were also involved ...are also victims.
I also understood him blaming it on his football career.
How many football players who have suffered concussions have gone on to commit mass murder of families they didn't even know, but most definitely targeted?
How many in total of all players past, and present have become murderers, and concussions were deemed to be the sole causation? Those who hadn't ever been in trouble before nor had ever shown any violence toward anyone during their entire lives?
I've experienced two concussions with one severe. It never changed my personality at all. Once I had healed from both life went on as before. The most severe I didn't slam into a helmet. I slammed into a concrete walkway when slipping on ice. It was a free fall with no time to break the full fall or impact.
Jmho
But MANY more players have played long careers and in positions with frequent and violent impacts to the head, (Philip Adams did not play such a position.) and they've not become homicidal. Some have become suicidal without too much warning. But when one considers the complete history of football, when, for many years, there was absolutely no protection for the head at all...I'm not buying that 2 concussions made him homicidal. We don't even know yet if he had CTE.
The vast majority of people who have CE or CTE, never turn violent. So, while I agree that it could be 1 contributing factor in someone's decision to commit homicide, I do think it's important not to assign causation.
I agree that his family are also victims, and I do feel for them. They lost a son, a father, a brother... And it probably was MSM putting forth one quick snippet and not the entirety of what he said about the events. My comment was more a criticism of MSM. No one is afforded any privacy. There used to be a modicum of respect for the grieving. AMOO