Source: chicago.suntimes.com | Repost Duerson Fund 5/15/2023 –
The Bears’ rookie minicamp last week was a nice affair, full of hope and hustle.
After the team’s much-hyped draft, allegedly the best in many years, everything is sky blue in Beardom. Sixty-plus eager minicamp players. Gung-ho coaches. Grunts. Diligence. Excitement. Sic ’em, boys!
But concern for the future?
Not much.
It’s an axiom that young football players feel invincible, incapable of imagining what it’s like to be 30, let alone something crazy like 50 or beyond. Maybe it has to be that way in a pro sport in which too much logic might send fellows running for the hills.
But the big money and the lure of manly competition, of success and stardom trump health concerns.
And there’s really only one big concern. Head trauma.
That is, concussions. Unfortunately for football, the head is still in the middle of the shoulders. A tackle or block without the head being involved in some way is hard to envision.