Concussions in football games are taken more seriously than ever before.
Examples of danger posed by head first hitting and concussions have been mounting over the past few years with at least one player losing a significant amount of their memory even in his 40s, multiple suicides and cases of depression and brain injuries. The NFL has recently made rule changes seeking to protect players.
The Probate Attorney Blog had discussed this problem and more detail about Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy a generative disease caused by concussion and hits to the head which can cause dementia, depression and even suicide it a few times recently here and here
The problems with concussions Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy have reached such recognition and importance that now there are even no rules to protect NFL players in the next edition of the "Madden" football video game franchise when concussed players won't be allowed to return to the field in the game they are injured.
"Concussions are such a big thing, it has to be a big thing in the video game," Madden told The New York Times in a telephone interview. "It starts with young kids -- they start in video games. I think the osmosis is if you get a concussion, that's a serious thing and you shouldn't play. Or leading with the head that you want to eliminate. We want that message to be strong."
Moore says "we have an obligation in our industry" to recognize that brain injuries are one of the biggest on-field problems facing football at all levels right now.
The game's executive producer, Phil Frazier, told The Times that "Madden NFL 12", with its new concussion rules and the exclusion of helmet-to-helmet hits and headfirst tackling can be a "teaching tool" to players of the game, particularly kids.
Gus Johnson and Cris Collinsworth, the announcers featured in the game, also will explain the dangerous nature of concussions when they announce that a player can't return to the game.
Madden agrees with the game's new emphasis on proper tackling techniques and the seriousness of concussions, telling The Times "if we show players playing through [concussions], then kids won't understand."
"There was a time when someone would get a concussion and you'd say he just got dinged, take some smelling salts and get back in the game. Those days are over," he told the newspaper.
Source ESPN
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