Good Things Friday (248) and Link Love
November 24, 2023
1. My favorite person is here and that’s the best.
2. Finally found jeans for myself, first jeans I’ve bought since 2016.
She lived in a New York hotel for more than 40 years. But her life was a mystery
Football is such an unbelievably dangerous sport. ‘A living hell inside of my head’: For first time, more advanced stage of CTE diagnosed in teen football player
Speaking of brain injury, this made me tear up. I make my living through words, not creative words but still words, and I loved Kelly’s books. NYTimes gift link: Rebuilding myself after brain injury, sentence by sentence.
My kids are very into sports but I have always flat out vetoed football! Lots of soccer, zero tackle sports. (I know pro soccer players do get concussions but not in the league here.)
I always wonder about the rate of concussions in pro soccer but it’s got to be much lower than football, right?
Yes, definitely! (Though these numbers wiggle considerably by study, football is always at the top.) https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/144/5/e20192180/38225/Concussion-Incidence-and-Trends-in-20-High-School
And for pros:
NFL: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33872087/
Soccer: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31303010/