Around the League 2019-2024 Edition

[worm]

fixed that for you! my timeline starts with FI!

fair

all hail habsy

 

[Habsy]

Please don't

 

[LeafOfFaith]

Holy fuck I've never seen that. That is fucking amazing.

 

[Habsy]

If this is indeed confirmed it's huge for sports

 

[Wayward DP]

If this is indeed confirmed it's huge for sports

not just sports. if we can objectively identify brain injury victims it should make resolving injury claims with insurers much, much easier.

 

[LeafGm]

If we do get a way to quickly and reliably diagnose concussions, one fear I’d have is that we’ll find out that they happen way more often than we think.

Which might end up not being compatible with contact sports continuing to exist in the long-term.

 

[trujaysfan]

Just need the psilocybin reasearch to move forward so we can treat TBI (traumatic brain injury).

 

[manny]

Everybody knows the refs try to even up the penalties. Seems like even the commentators talk about penalties to even things out all the time. I didn't even think of it as an "open secret", just something that is fully acknowledged as part of the way that games is managed. And of course it's stupid, but I don't see how someone could lose their job over getting caught talking about something that Chris Cuthbert has probably talked about a hundred times.

I hope they can get rid of this officiating tactic now. Blowouts happen. How does an NFL team play the fourth quarter when they're already down 20 without starting a brawl? How does a baseball team lose by 10 and then come back to play the next day without throwing a tantrum? Most of the time they act like professionals and move on. Probably hockey players could do this too, if that was the expectation.

 

[LeafOfFaith]

Peel's penis had a concussion after that play.

 

[zeke]

 

[Wayward DP]

I mean I have no love for Tim Peel at all, but he does not deserve to be the fall guy here.

 

[hockeylover]

 

[CH1]

I mean I have no love for Tim Peel at all, but he does not deserve to be the fall guy here.

why not? they are called unwritten/unspoken rules for a reason...his crime is not keeping his mouth shut

 

[MindzEye]

Ken Dryden mentioned it in his 1983 book called The Game

Yeah, but he got the idea from Mirtle in 81, who stole it from FI in 78.

 

[MindzEye]

hail habsy

 

[Wayward DP]

why not? they are called unwritten/unspoken rules for a reason...his crime is not keeping his mouth shut

the issue isn't that Peel said it out loud. the issue is that it is a league-mandated policy to begin with. punishing Peel does nothing to address the issue and is, in fact, a distraction from the actual issue.

 

[CH1]

the issue isn't that Peel said it out loud. the issue is that it is a league-mandated policy to begin with. punishing Peel does nothing to address the issue and is, in fact, a distraction from the actual issue.

I agree that it's a huge problem....
but if you can't prove it, how are you going to dole out punishment?

 

[worm]

I agree that it's a huge problem....
but if you can't prove it, how are you going to dole out punishment?

i guarantee there are emails telling the refs to do this

 

[Volcanologist]

when you peel things back

 

[zeke]

I wonder if it would help refs make all the calls if the penalty was less. Like a bball style foul system or something.