PFT - Data from a comprehensive study of more than 3,900 Wisconsin men who graduated high school in 1957 revealed that “there was no statistically or clinically significant harmful association between playing football in high school and increased cognitive impairment or depression later in life, on average.”
This means that, for men who attended high school in the mid-to-late-1950s, playing high school football “did not appear to be a major risk factor for later-life cognitive impairment or depression.”
This new report surfaced earlier on in the week. Basically a comprehensive study shows that there did not appear to be any difference in the long-term effects of playing football versus not playing football in high school.
This is a big win for those who believe football will remain a staple in American culture beyond the next 20 years. It is NOT, however, a sign that football is something that doesn't negatively impact the lives of individual players. This just goes to show that as a whole, the percentages did not move up.
Colin Cowherd makes sense of all of this in the audio below. Check it out:
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