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For the NFL and all of football, a new threat: an evaporating insurance market
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<blockquote data-quote="wpr" data-source="post: 1444862" data-attributes="member: 4159"><p>I have been expecting some fallout like this but not to this degree nor this quickly.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/25776964/insurance-market-football-evaporating-causing-major-threat-nfl-pop-warner-colleges-espn" target="_blank">Outside the Lines</a></p><p></p><p>It's a pretty long article and I have not finished it. From what I have read I think OTL is 100% accurate.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>As I read this I kept thinking about what I thought was an incredibly stupid comment my driver's ed teacher told us back in the 70's. He said as cars add more and more safety equipment people are feeling more and more secure. They are relaxing to a larger degree. They are taking more chances. "IF EVER CAR HAD A DAGGER IN THE STEERING WHEEL THAT WAS POINTED AT THE DRIVER THERE WOULD BE A LOT FEWER ACCIDENTS BECAUSE DRIVERS WOULD BE GOING SLOWER. THEY WOULD BE MORE COURTEOUS TO OTHERS. THEY WOULD TAKE FEWER CHANCES." In a way the same can be said for football. If they had the old leather helmets there would be fewer helmet to helmet hits. Almost no one would try to spear another player. There is no way in the world the NFL would go back to that kind of a helmet but players get a sense of invulnerability with the newer, "safer" helmets.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wpr, post: 1444862, member: 4159"] I have been expecting some fallout like this but not to this degree nor this quickly. [url=http://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/25776964/insurance-market-football-evaporating-causing-major-threat-nfl-pop-warner-colleges-espn]Outside the Lines[/url] It's a pretty long article and I have not finished it. From what I have read I think OTL is 100% accurate. As I read this I kept thinking about what I thought was an incredibly stupid comment my driver's ed teacher told us back in the 70's. He said as cars add more and more safety equipment people are feeling more and more secure. They are relaxing to a larger degree. They are taking more chances. "IF EVER CAR HAD A DAGGER IN THE STEERING WHEEL THAT WAS POINTED AT THE DRIVER THERE WOULD BE A LOT FEWER ACCIDENTS BECAUSE DRIVERS WOULD BE GOING SLOWER. THEY WOULD BE MORE COURTEOUS TO OTHERS. THEY WOULD TAKE FEWER CHANCES." In a way the same can be said for football. If they had the old leather helmets there would be fewer helmet to helmet hits. Almost no one would try to spear another player. There is no way in the world the NFL would go back to that kind of a helmet but players get a sense of invulnerability with the newer, "safer" helmets. [/QUOTE]
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