Again, we should caution everyone from overreacting to what I believe is likely a freakish one in 1 million type of cardiac arrest event, likely caused by the rare combination of a thump to the chest at precisely the right time in the heart beat cycle.
However, if you go back a couple of decades and look at the players’ shoulder pads, they certainly looked bigger and thicker.
I don’t know all kinds of changes have been made but it looks to me like they’re more formfitting and smaller today, but I’m hoping also not less protective. Maybe that was done because they realized that reduced shoulder separation and dislocated shoulders or maybe just make players lighter on field… I don’t know, but what about the impacts of hits to players with smaller pads . Obviously it’s not some huge problem or we would see this more often but does it warrant review?
However, if you go back a couple of decades and look at the players’ shoulder pads, they certainly looked bigger and thicker.
I don’t know all kinds of changes have been made but it looks to me like they’re more formfitting and smaller today, but I’m hoping also not less protective. Maybe that was done because they realized that reduced shoulder separation and dislocated shoulders or maybe just make players lighter on field… I don’t know, but what about the impacts of hits to players with smaller pads . Obviously it’s not some huge problem or we would see this more often but does it warrant review?
