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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HardRightEdge" data-source="post: 687700">Oh, I'm sure concussions were as bad if not worse than today.Until very recently, the long term affects of concussions were not recognized in the medical community.  Even as evidence emerged, the NFL was a concussion denier, not unlike big tobacco vis a vis cancer or the current crop of climate deniers...they had evidence but suppressed it.It really wasn't until Dave Duerson's suicide in 2011 that the issue gained any traction and CTE was beginning to be recognized as a real risk.Frankly, back in the 60's, if an ex-player was losing his faculties he was just another case of early senility, like that crazy uncle.  Families were not especially willing to publicize it.  There was union to count up the cases.You could think of it like the autism spectrum.  Is there some recent epidemic, as the vacine deniers would have you believe contrary to all science, or was it always around but the victims of that condition were just counted among the town crazies and "retards" or quietly packed away in the insane asylums which are nearly non-existent anymore in comparison.  What we might call high functioning autistics were just idiosyncratic.</blockquote>

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