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  Snakey - Sack Dylan Brown August 18, 2016 at 5:25am

  LOLL
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  Kurupt August 18, 2016 at 5:28am

  And how long before scumbags start using the helmets as weapons.
  Let's not change the game anymore.
  I pay good money to see stupid people who get paid a shìtload more than me bash into each other in the game I'm slowly falling out of love with.
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  RIDER August 18, 2016 at 5:42am

  As long as you are ok with not seeing attacking football again.
  
  Also you may need some body protection because IDG with a helmet could do some damage.
  
  And then you may need some shoulder pads to protect you collarbone when trying to tackle someone with a helmet who ducks into the tackle.
  
  Hangon, there's a game like that already.
  
  Gave you thought of following the NFL Robert. You'd find plenty to complain about there.
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  brad August 18, 2016 at 6:37am

  How long have you been wearing your helmet? I am predicting frontal lobe damage.
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  Sir Col "THE NODDY MUSHROOM" August 18, 2016 at 8:18am

  
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  Prof. Daz August 18, 2016 at 8:36am

  Your initial premise is wrong, Robert, so we have to wonder about what follows. The NFL did not always have helmets, only introducing them after deaths from skull fractures. But basic physics tells you that a hard shell modulates the force of acceleration from an impact. Now, concussion results from the deceleration the brain undergoes as it bops against the skull on impact. So a helmet can never be concussion proof, because ultimately the brain is decelerating over about a one inch space. But that modulation of impact due to the hard shell is going to create many glancing effects that in turn modulate deceleration rates. It's physics. The issue the NFL faced is that they used to use a pass/fail basis for approving helmets, which made avoiding concussion a matter of luck: were you lucky enough to benefit from a glancing effect just fractional enough to modulate brain deceleration enough to avoid concussion? But since the early 2000's I think, the NFL used a 5-star crash rating similar to automobile testing, and the results there suggest upwards of 50% concussion reduction for the 5 star helmet. Still never concussion proof, unless someone invents a way to have one inch of padding absorb a very large deceleration force. Surround your head in 10 inches of padding and you're probably fine. Pack that into one inch? Doubtful, but where there is innovation there is hope I guess.
  
  How any of that relates to the absurdity of making NRL NFL I don't know. But even NFL folk say that a helmet is your third line of defense after rules and coaching. That means when we let Ryan James escape suspension for breaking Tedesco's jaw, our rules have failed to deter harmful actions. It's easy to change a rule, and much easier to change a rule than figure out how to compress 15 inches of absorptive force into one inch.
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  Tin Tim August 18, 2016 at 12:06pm

  Is it clown week?
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  Wizardssleeves official receipts August 18, 2016 at 12:12pm

  " Helmets and broken jaws "
  
  Sounds like a black guys gay porno .