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Headbanging’s in the New Again

Related Topics: Pat Narduzzi, Concussion

Not to make a shabby pun but the issue of concussions in football has reared its ugly head again. There was an initial backlash toward Pat Narduzzi for what seemed to be a very cavalier attitude towards the enormous problem of the effects of concussions on football players.

However, there was also the correct rollback by the media once the actual quotes and Narduzzi’s intent became clear. There are a lot of media pieces about this but I think Sam Werner in his P-G Red Shirt Diaries lays it out the best. Maybe that is because he was the reporter who asked Narduzzi the actual questions about the meeting’s discussions about the subject:

From Werner: “I followed up by asking what the concussion discussion centered around and what kind of things they talked about.