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Roger Goodell is forcing through a change to the rules to mandate a full set of pads for every player, as is the case in HS and college. Naturally, prima donna players are having a hissy fit over this.

I'm no fan of Goodell, but in THIS case, this is the right move. I'm sick of seeing guys with no knee pads go out with a blown ACL or a guy with no hip pads sustain a hip pointer. I'm just waiting for a guy to lose his career because his coccyx got busted. And then the League loses its shirt because they "didn't protect" him?

http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/rule ... ine-052212

A knee pad will not protect from a torn ACL...period....

clenz wrote:A knee pad will not protect from a torn ACL...period....

Are you really going to try and explain that to SH? You actually think he can grasp that?

As far as the rule goes this is stupid. If NFL players want to risk injury by not wearing certain pads than so be it. So long as they sign a waiver saying they won't sue the NFL if they chose to do so I don't see what the problem is. I guess Goodell wants to mimic our wonderful legislature and make a bunch of rules that are utterly meaningless but make a few people feel good.

clenz wrote:A knee pad will not protect from a torn ACL...period....

true dat

Also this isn't something new. Mike Florio of ProFootballTalk wrote a column on this same thing back in May of 2012

Nothing says entertainment more than clenzy posting in one of SH's threads!

What's "entertaining" about a statement of fact, Andy? clenzy didn't get his ire up. He didn't drop F-bombs. He merely stated that what I found the other day was old news. What's the problem with that?

clenz wrote:A knee pad will not protect from a torn ACL...period....

Yeah, I didn't understand that.

SuperHornet wrote:What's "entertaining" about a statement of fact, Andy? clenzy didn't get his ire up. He didn't drop F-bombs. He merely stated that what I found the other day was old news. What's the problem with that?

He also said you're wrong about the knee pad.

Again, where's the "entertainment" in that? He expressed an opinion, and it was clean. We happened to disagree, but it was collegial.

SuperHornet wrote:Again, where's the "entertainment" in that? He expressed an opinion, and it was clean. We happened to disagree, but it was collegial.

You didn't respond this morning. Had you insisted about knee pads preventing ACLs, good old clenzy would have warped into apeshit mode in no time. FB posts indicate a melt down in on the horizon.

Spoiler: show

J/K clenz

andy7171 wrote:

SuperHornet wrote:Again, where's the "entertainment" in that? He expressed an opinion, and it was clean. We happened to disagree, but it was collegial.

You didn't respond this morning. Had you insisted about knee pads preventing ACLs, good old clenzy would have warped into apeshit mode in no time. FB posts indicate a melt down in on the horizon.

Spoiler: show

J/K clenz

You may be right about him responding this morning. Had he came back with some stupid answer I may have. However, my new years resolution was to not be the grumpy fuck I was in 2012, and 2011, and 2010, and 2009, and 2008, etc...


That being said, the only reason I didn't have a "Pyle" moment this morning is because I couldn't quickly finding a study/article to back up my knee pads don't prevent ACL injuries. Anyone with common sense knows that, and it may be why we don't have a research article on it. The tailbone pad won't prevent broken tail bones either....then again when was the last time a football player (wearing the pad or not) broke that?

Look at how well shoulder pads prevent shoulder injuries....they don't.

I didn't know Florio had that article from May until I googled the topic, which is why I wasn't about to go off on they....although I do remember Florio talking about the topic on the Dan Patrick Show last spring about that time.



The pads won't prevent any major inuries. What they do prevent is the "bumps and bruises" that these players suffer from all season. I played without pads below the waist in college, as it was the thing to do, and I can tell you that I suffered a lot more muscle bruises than I did with them in HS.