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CNN 5 Things

One Thing: Flag on the Sport: Football’s Safety Reckoning

CNN 5 Things

CNN

News, Daily News

3.71.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2023

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

As a new NFL season kicks off this week, old questions about the game’s safety are being asked following Damar Hamlin’s on-field cardiac arrest and Tua Tagovailoa’s multiple concussions last year. And it’s not just the pros: youth leagues around the countries have adjusted practice routines and safety protocols to guard against injuries that can carry long-term impacts. In today’s episode, we examine football’s deadly history and how it’s informing today’s game. Plus, CNN gets a look at new technology that could one day predict injuries before they happen.  Guest: Coy Wire, CNN Sports Anchor & Correspondent To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Spark your creativity with the Sims. Sometimes you might feel like you're not creative

0:07.0

and you have to go in search of your creative spark again. Maybe this is catching up with creative

0:11.9

friends, experimenting with a new look or trying out a new recipe.

0:16.0

And thanks to The Sims, inspiration is just one game and one spark away.

0:21.0

Ready to spark something? Download the Sims 4 and play for free. Football is a really complex game. I've been watching it religiously since I was about 12 years old and I still barely get what's going on half the time.

0:41.0

But even if the only game you watch all year is the Super Bowl, you

0:45.8

understand that football is extremely violent. Some of the best athletes in the

0:51.4

world, 200, 300 pound guys throwing themselves at and into each

0:56.3

other at full speed. Obviously there are risks to playing a game like that.

1:01.1

Researchers have now found CTE a brain disease often associated with NFL players and

1:06.2

concussions in younger, amateur athletes.

1:09.0

But recently the risks of long-term impacts, especially to the brain, have started to become clearer.

1:16.2

And that has fans, parents, and even some players asking,

1:20.1

should we still be playing it at all?

1:30.0

My guest this week is CNN Sports anchor and former NFL player Koy Wire. He's been looking into how football's violent history informs the present and why the possible solutions at the pro level

1:37.1

could reverberate all the way down to Pee Wee.

1:41.3

From CNN, this is one thing. I'm David Ryan.

1:45.0

Hey Koy. What's going on, David?

1:50.0

So the last time you were on the show we talked about Buffalo

1:56.5

Bill's safety, DeMar Hamlin. People might remember this. He suffered cardiac arrest

2:01.2

during a game against the Cincinnati Bengals, he actually had to be revived right there on the field.

2:06.3

The future of his NFL career kind of seemed like the least of his worries at that point,

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