Goodell defends NFL to Congress about concussions

Congress & Football need to stay totally separate from one another. It's football, players get hurt, that's the risk they take playing the sport. Congress suffered one too many head injuries...

I love it when people make the Football vs. Rugby arguement. My question is, why dont Rugby players break for the big bucks and play football for a few years.

The reality is they are very different sports with very different techniques. Comparing the level of contact in Rugby to Football is like comparing Tennis to Golf

Football players are @#$% anyways; football is just for people who are too scared to play rugby, a real man's game. Rugby - no helmets, no pads, just balls.

Good! Hopefully congress will waste enough time with this that they forget about that crippling health care bill. No one with common sense believes the government will ever save money by implementing a government run health care. We need reform, not a take over or overhaul. God I sound like a whining republican, but this issue is to back to sit back and needs to be mention even when congress tries to take our attention away with something as stupid as researching head injuries in sports.

Goodell is not a doctor
And he is not a god either.
Football is a barberic game where Barbarians play.

The NFL doesn't have anything to worry about. Goodell let Obama's guy Vick back in the league and allwoed him to play. Gambling is gambling!!! Explain to me why Pete Rose and Joe Jackson are still banned. Oh!! I know!!! Do you??

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The NFL, NCAA and especially high school level needs to make it a priority to educate players and coaches on the long lasting effects of head injuries. They really can't rely on the Dr's as, more often than not, most Dr's really don't understand the long term effects. The effects of repeated head injuries are devastating to the player and the families, unfortunately players tend to think that "they'll deal with it later". Dealing with it later is not an easy task, especially once cognitive skills and reasoning have been damaged.

See, this is when congress should be paying attention to sports. It's not their place to tell organizations how to run themselves, like inquiry into baseball about steroids or into the BCS. It is their place to protect the citizens it was created to represent.

That being said, I don't see why they would actually need to review something like this. Playing football (or any collision sport) is a conscious choice. You don't see moto x athletes clamoring to congress about how dangerous their sport is because they know going in that throwing themselves across 100-foot gaps, upside down, riding a motorcycle, is dangerous. Boxers, too. Muhammed Ali is a perfect example of how dangerous boxing is, but you don't hear people trying to make boxing safer. Similarly, football players need to understand that the sport they play involves getting smacked in the head on almost every play, and they're playing it by choice.

We don't need legislation. We need education.

I wish The Demo-FLAP from Mich John Conyers would just crawl back in his "Political Sewer Hole" and put the cove on. This "POLITOID" should just stop his demagoguery cause he just want to start some type of controversy to start a committee for his own enrichment. He said the problem is a Life & Death Issue that warrants federal scrutiny or in his case federal meddling, considering all the deaths that are happening now in other things war, disease, and especially abortion! So stop it now you FALSE STEWARD!

WOW, all these posters are completely nuts. You guys are ALL whack jobs.

Great, now the liberals are trying to regulate football along with everything else they've meddled with. What would really be worth a weeks salary is to put a set of pads and a helmet on Pelosi and hand her the football and let RayRay loose.

Hey jeff d, Post 2: You need a concussion moron because you need something to stimulate that pile of mashed potatoes between your ears.

What do you expect? It's football, people get concussions and head injuries, check out the NFL Week 6 Predictions at www.theidealsportsblog.com

hopefully he'll have to answer for the fake patriot superbowls. goodell sucks, cant wait til someone else takes over. and the NFL gimmicks have to stop. throwbacks, foreign games, politics....yup, you suck commish.

Hopefully they will ask him why some teams get calls and some don't why Moss can push off the CBs as Patriot but got flagged all the time as a Raider and why there was no penalty for excessive celabration in the Super Bowl by Holmes , and on and on and on.........why rig the games for T shirt sales .....MILLIONS.