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The first concussion was during preseason. The team was doing two-a-days,” he said, referring to the habit of practicing in both the morning and the evening in the preseason. “It was August 9th, 9:55 A.M. He has an 80-g hit to the front of his head. About ten minutes later, he has a 98-g acceleration to the front of his head.” To put those numbers in perspective, Guskiewicz explained, if you drove your car into a wall at twenty-five miles per hour and you weren’t wearing your seat belt, the force of your head hitting the windshield would be around 100 gs: in effect, the player had two car accidents that morning.
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I finally got around to reading the Malcolm Gladwell’s NYer piece on football vs. dogfighting that everyone’s been talking about it.
It’s super smart, but most striking was this comparison of helmet-to-helmet collisions to car crashes. Apparently embedding little wireless sensors in players’ helmets can measure impact in real time across multiple players.
