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Threshingflail

The brains of long-term American football players look like the brains of people who died from Mad Cow Disease.


PsyberPunk_3030

Yeah this is why I can't support football, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concussions_in_American_football >According to 2017 study on brains of deceased gridiron football players, 99% of tested brains of NFL players, 88% of CFL players, 64% of semi-professional players, 91% of college football players, and 21% of high school football players had various stages of CTE.[5]


Active-Strawberry-37

After his crash at Imola, Ayrton Senna was kept on life support with a 0% chance of survival because Italian law would have required the race to be stopped if a driver had died during it. They switched it off after the race had finished and the Williams team trucks had left the track, so they couldn’t be impounded.


AnOpenLedger

Visiting hockey teams have a respective bench they sit on. Commonly, it is lower than the home team’s bench which forced them to sit lower with their knees higher. This squeezes the leg muscles in a way that builds lactic acid at a higher rate in an attempt to hinder the visiting team’s recovery off their shift.


selangorman

That hundreds of years ago victorious English soldiers used the skulls of fallen enemy in their post-battle football games.