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Originally Posted by SkunkApe
Although the decline is certainly good news, the overall rate still strikes me as ridiculously high.
To put it in perspective:
An NFL team has 11 players, so 22 players per game.
There are 544 games per year. 544 X 22 =11,968 starts per year.
At rate of 1.39 deaths per 1000 starts, we’d have 16.6 dead NFL players per year.
I realize, of course, that horses aren’t people, but still…
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Tough to ignore the obvious that this a horrendous analogy for more than a few reason. Here's one....CTE. Years later, seemingly healthy ex-players are dying, committing suicide, and/or harming others.
But that's just assuming it makes any sense to compare the two in the first place. It doesn't.
