No Michigan Football Today Negbang
Once a year in the middle of the football season, Michigan is scheduled a bye week that really screws up my weekend juju. Today will include activities that aren't grilling, drinking, and Michigan football watching. If I'm lucky, while I am being toted around by the female to various stores that I don't give a fuck about, I may be able to catch a game on a display TV or something.
I hate bye weeks. I hate shopping. Today I hate my MGoPoints.
Br ady Hoke is right. Punting in that situation last week was ABSOLUTELY the WRONG decision. Our kids deserved better, and who cares more about Michigan Football and those kids than Brady Hoke? #HIREBRADY
October 24th, 2015 at 6:27 PM ^
October 25th, 2015 at 8:53 AM ^
An "unnamed organization" (read NFL??) has contacted a scientific innovation company about <b>designing a concussion-proof helmet.<b/> This info came out of a long, yet fascinating article about Lowell Wood who just surpassed Thomas Edison for the most patents by an individual in the U.S.
Pertinent excerpts are provided below. The entire article is at: http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2015-americas-top-inventor-lowell-woo…
"Recently folks have been getting really concerned about concussions, because professional athletes are showing up demented in their 40s and dying before they’re 50 with real unpleasant brains at autopsies. <b>So we were asked to look at the concussion situation from an inventive standpoint.<b/>"
"An organization—<i>he declines to say which<i/>—came to talk him into developing anticoncussion technology."
"Wood’s anticoncussion solution, much like football, isn’t for the squeamish. Sensors in the helmet trigger a mechanism that fuses a player’s helmet and shoulder pads. Wood is vague on exactly how that would work, but spikes or rods of some kind would shoot down from the helmet to keep the head from turning."
“In a fraction of a—a tenth, a twentieth, a thirtieth—second, the helmet will put things down that will grab your collarbones and not only will your neck not break, but your brain won’t be damaged. You may take some collarbone damage, but everybody understands that collarbones heal. At least you won’t take the lasting damage to an organ that you really depend on. That’s what we’ve invented.”
"And there’s two interesting things that you can do. First of all, you can give them a helmet that will measure what the level of damage is that happens in any particular hit and will signal, ‘Hey kid, you’ve had enough, this is it for a day, a week, a month, or whatever. You’re just on the sidelines. You had a bad break, and here’s what has to be done in order to prevent permanent damage.’"