I think both you and Joe Pa have been playing without a helmet for way too long. The face mask may have originally been added to protect the teeth, but it obviously does so muck more than that. The number of head injuries would increase geometrically. Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
-----Original Message----- From: Jerry Belloit <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 09:32:59 To: <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Subject: [gatortalk] RE: [gatornews] JoePa didn't wear a facemask. He doesn't think today's players should, either. I think Joe may have a point. I think the face mask was initially put in to protect the teeth. With mouth guards, the face mask may not be as important now. Perhaps what we really need is for the helmets to have a pressure sensor on the top that would alert the ref if the sensor had exceed so much pressure. The player would then be flagged for leading with their head. Jerry From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Art Wroble Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2010 5:39 PM To: GatorNews Subject: [gatornews] JoePa didn't wear a facemask. He doesn't think today's players should, either. Tue Oct 19 12:57pm PDT <http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/blog/dr_saturday/post/JoePa-didn-t-we ar-a-facemask-He-doesn-t-think-t?urn=ncaaf-278329> JoePa didn't wear a facemask. He doesn't think today's players should, either. By <http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/blog/dr_saturday?author=Matt+Hinton> Matt Hinton <http://a323.yahoofs.com/ymg/ept_sports_ncaaf_experts__42/ept_sports_ncaaf_e xperts-741656483-1287529450.jpg?ymqf78DDK451HKye> The NFL is <http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101019/ap_on_sp_fo_ne/fbn_helmet_to_helmet_hit s_8> upping the ante yet again on helmet-to-helmet hits and other vicious collisions, promising even more aggressive fines and suspensions in the wake of a particularly violent weekend. The NCAA has been <http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/football/2009-09-28-helmet-hits_N.ht m> concerned with the same problem lately, led <http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/blog/dr_saturday/post/Please-college- football-do-not-become-the-No-?urn=ncaaf-194085> by the Big Ten. And if it's really serious about it, Joe Paterno <http://www.examiner.com/penn-state-nittany-lions-football-in-philadelphia/p aterno-on-helmet-to-helmet-hits-get-rid-of-facemasks> has an idea from his own playing days at Brown, right after the war (Second World, that is, not Civil). If you want players to stop leading with their heads, Paterno told reporters during Tuesday's Big Ten conference call, <http://twitter.com/#!/DustinDopirak/status/27853318088> lose the facemasks already: "I've been saying for years, we should get rid of the facemask. ... It's a weapon, guys are fearless." [Photos: <http://yhoo.it/dhJ4IC> See what football legend Joe Paterno looks like today] Predictably, the whippersnappers in the ranks - namely 35-year-old Northwestern coach Pat Fitzgerald, who opted for <http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/359526/Getty-Images-Sport> maximum coverage as an All-American linebacker in the mid-'90s - <http://twitter.com/#!/espn_bigten> aren't so enthusiastic about the idea. But more than a few people who actually study head injuries aren't so dismissive: As the Wall Street Journal reported last year, the growing research on the <http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/10/19/091019fa_fact_gladwell> long-term effects of repeated head shots, even when helmets are involved, have led some experts to conclude that <http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704402404574527881984299454.h tml> the protection does more harm than good by making head-cracking too routine. Troy Aikman is <http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2009/12/22/aikman-suggests-getting-rid -of-helmets/> down with that, and he <http://www.comcast.net/slideshow/sports-careerendinginjuries/1/> knows from head injuries. Of course, helmets were introduced largely to combat the <http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/ah/1988/6/1988_6_102.shtm l> "boy-killing, man-mutilating" violence that nearly got the game banned outright at the turn of the 20th Century. The facemask wasn't standard until the mid-'50s, well after the end of JoePa's career at Brown and into his tenure as a young assistant at Penn State. You can play football without a facemask. While we're at it, Paterno would also like to know whatever happened to those canary dishes, the Andrews Sisters? Used to be a Joe could always get togged to the bricks for a jolly up in this town, even if he was a cement mixer. 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