http://www.indenvertimes.com/drew-litton-time-to-use-our-heads/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=drew-litton-time-to-use-our-heads INDenverTimes provides news, insight, perspective and information for Denver and Colorado Thu, 26 Jan 2012 19:00:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.indenvertimes.com/drew-litton-time-to-use-our-heads/comment-page-1/#comment-11076 Loretta Wed, 04 Nov 2009 06:18:49 +0000 http://www.drewlitton.com/?p=1639#comment-11076 How about the idiots that still are full body donars becuse of ridding a motorcycle without a helmet. I don't think people understand what having a head injury really means. They don't get the idea that it will limit their ability to function in all kinds of manner, like seeing, reading, writting, speaking, breathing, eating. It's so stupid that in this day and age that children under 5 will be given pills for being "overi-active" and adutlts will purposely bang their heads "for the fun of it". How about the idiots that still are full body donars becuse of ridding a motorcycle without a helmet. I don’t think people understand what having a head injury really means. They don’t get the idea that it will limit their ability to function in all kinds of manner, like seeing, reading, writting, speaking, breathing, eating. It’s so stupid that in this day and age that children under 5 will be given pills for being “overi-active” and adutlts will purposely bang their heads “for the fun of it”.

]]> http://www.indenvertimes.com/drew-litton-time-to-use-our-heads/comment-page-1/#comment-11072 J.P. McLaughlin Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:20:05 +0000 http://www.drewlitton.com/?p=1639#comment-11072 Drew, did you read that piece in a recent New Yorker about autopsies performed on the brains of former boxers and football players, mostly the latter? It's shocking what happens to the brain when it undergoes an accretion of hits to the head. And they don't have to be equivalent to an auto accident to cause incremental damage to the mind. I'm not sure I wouldn't advocate outlawing anything but touch football for kids under 18. I know Texas and other states would probably secede it that ever happened, but I don't think children should be subjected to that danger. This ain't small potatoes, man, this is your MIND! Once you turn 18 and choose to play tackle football, good luck. Apparently all the technology in the world won't create a helmet that will prevent such injuries. Drew, did you read that piece in a recent New Yorker about autopsies performed on the brains of former boxers and football players, mostly the latter? It’s shocking what happens to the brain when it undergoes an accretion of hits to the head. And they don’t have to be equivalent to an auto accident to cause incremental damage to the mind. I’m not sure I wouldn’t advocate outlawing anything but touch football for kids under 18. I know Texas and other states would probably secede it that ever happened, but I don’t think children should be subjected to that danger. This ain’t small potatoes, man, this is your MIND! Once you turn 18 and choose to play tackle football, good luck. Apparently all the technology in the world won’t create a helmet that will prevent such injuries.

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