Zach Zaidman
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924 appearances
22 recordings
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first heard Mar 2026
last heard 2d ago
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Because it goes without saying that there's a connection between ALS and football.
I'll give you two reasons.
One, the concussion settlement that was reached initially 13 years ago and eventually the NFL agreed to it.
unlimited fund that would be paid the players no questions asked anybody who played and retired before july seven of twenty fourteen if you had a qualifying condition you got payment and one of a handful of conditions was a ls
How can we not say there's a connection between ALS and football?
If that's a condition that gets you an automatic payment from this fund, of course there is.
And then there was a study done more recently that looked at 19,000 plus players who spent at least one year in the NFL and the incidence of ALS among them was four times higher than the average population.
I think that it's important to point it out because when players say we know what we signed up for, it's one thing to know that you may get a broken bone or suffer a concussion or tear a ligament or lose a spleen like Chris Sims did.
You have a very, very small risk of paralysis.
But to understand the long-term risks, ALS, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's, dementia,
I don't know that we keep that at the forefront as we get more and more waves of kids who play and play well and work their way up the ladder of the NFL.
I think everybody needs to know it, and we just assume everybody does.
I think people need to be reminded because every year there's a new crop of football players who are taking up the sport.
I think the motivation for the expansion of flag football is more about the globalization of the sport.
It's so much easier to get people in other countries to play organized flag football when all you need is a ball and the flags.
You don't need 11 on 11.
You don't need all the pads.
You don't need organized training and education on techniques.
It's a safer version of the game.
And there's a belief in the commissioner said this recently, especially as it relates to girls.
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