Jan 28, 2009

Another From The Desk Of No Shit Sherlock.

Boston University’s Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy (CSTE) announced yesterday that football players who receive repeated blows to the head suffer from long term brain injury.

Which leads Bossy to today’s Parlor Game. Which of the following is brain tissue following multiple concussions, and which is a William de Kooning?

You can read the full report here.

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26 comments

1. 1
   on January 28th, 2009 at 10:56 am
   Florida Liz said:

   The parlor game is funny! The subject matter.. not so much. Just another reason I’m glad I don’t watch football, or boxing, or WW Idiots or whatever it’s called. Thanks for sharing the article.


2. 2
   on January 28th, 2009 at 11:13 am
   Little Miss Sunshine State said:

   Do research scientists bang their palm on their forehead and say “DUH” when they make an obvious discovery?

   That could cause brain damage.


3. 3
   on January 28th, 2009 at 11:18 am
   Hokie Deb said:

   –>You make me laugh.

   http://thaxtonfam.blogspot.com


4. 4
   on January 28th, 2009 at 11:22 am
   Bonnie said:

   Gnarly!


5. 5
   on January 28th, 2009 at 11:58 am
   Lesley said:

   Wow.

   The brain tissue looks disturbingly similar to the cereal I’m currently eating while I read this.


6. 6
   on January 28th, 2009 at 12:10 pm
   jen said:

   You. Are. Hilarious.


7. 7
   on January 28th, 2009 at 12:29 pm
   ~annie said:

   I’ve never really “gotten” the hype about sports, especially at the high school level. Reading BOSSY is SO much better for one’s brain.


8. 8
   on January 28th, 2009 at 12:38 pm
   David said:

   The first picture shows destroyed brain tissue.

   The second picture engages brain tissue.
   And could fetch you a pretty penny at Sotheby’s.


9. 9
   on January 28th, 2009 at 2:00 pm
   SherylW said:

   Just another reason us parents need to remove multi billion dollars making sport athletes from our childrens
   “role model lists” and add people who use their brains in the ways it was intended- which I’m sure isn’t for bashing into others with.


10. 10
    on January 28th, 2009 at 2:50 pm
    Reeb said:

    How timely. Today is Jackson Pollock’s bday and the http://www.google.com/ logo image (for today only) is a mass of swirly lines similar to the de Kooning, with a barely visible “google” in all that mess. Bossy you are so on top of it.

    Which keeps me from having to comment on stupid football.


11. 11
    on January 28th, 2009 at 3:02 pm
    Kerry said:

    I read that yesterday and duh! So sad so frustrating.


12. 12
    on January 28th, 2009 at 3:08 pm
    Cat@MyNameIsCat said:

    I read that article yesterday, as well, and I just have to say duh. When my parents go to a college game, my mom says, “We’re off to the Coliseum to watch the gladiators.” It is so true. I just don’t get the national obsession with that sport.


13. 13
    on January 28th, 2009 at 3:15 pm
    The Cheap Chick said:

    Wow. Scientists are smart. No, really-and-I-mean-it.

    I’ll bet someday they’ll determine water is wet, too.


14. 14
    on January 28th, 2009 at 3:31 pm
    Heide said:

    Thanks for this. So glad my kid goes to a school with a chess team and no football team.


15. 15
    on January 28th, 2009 at 4:07 pm
    foolery said:

    It’s all clear now: William de Kooning must have played football.


16. 16
    on January 28th, 2009 at 4:18 pm
    Coco said:

    Football players receive way too many injuries. Just ask my husband who has had knee surgery, his neck is totally wrecked along with his rotator cuff. It is really hard on a body. My guess is the top one is the brain… but they are close aren’t they.

    Coco


17. 17
    on January 28th, 2009 at 4:35 pm
    Mr Farty said:

    What Reeb said. Which is why I’ve never been to a hockey match.


18. 18
    on January 28th, 2009 at 4:48 pm
    patois said:

    I do believe that is my all-time favorite parlor game.

    Perhaps we could take the money spent on that study and put it toward, I don’t know, pretty much anything instead.


19. 19
    on January 28th, 2009 at 5:19 pm
    Domestic Goddess (in training) said:

    That is a fantastic article. Now, when do we get the one about chronic hockey playing equals less teeth, because I bet that’s a shocker!


20. 20
    on January 28th, 2009 at 5:28 pm
    Dara said:

    Foolsball. I hope my son is a drum player!!
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/22735404@N02/?saved=1


21. 21
    on January 28th, 2009 at 6:24 pm
    Chesapeake Bay Woman said:

    Yes, and in other news, overeating causes obesity; smoking is bad for your lungs; and Bossy has multiple boyfriends and husbands.

    Signed,
    Sherlock


22. 22
    on January 28th, 2009 at 7:21 pm
    kate said:

    i love love love de kooning. but i can’t tell.


23. 23
    on January 28th, 2009 at 10:05 pm
    Dorothy Stahlnecker said:

    I saw that mass on google too…and now I wonder if I needed to know all this stuff….euw….

    Dorothy from grammology
    grammology.com

    My granddaughter had her precious baby girl….she’s beautiful…


24. 24
    on January 28th, 2009 at 11:01 pm
    pamela said:

    Wow. Them’s some S.M.R.T. smart peoples up there at the whatever college of big brains they done work for. Lawsie.


25. 25
    on January 29th, 2009 at 12:45 am
    Heather said:

    I’m pretty certain that the first one is something my toddler vomited, and the second one is what I wish she had drawn on my chairs.

    Now the real question is: Does football cause brain injury, or does brain injury cause football?


26. 26
    on January 29th, 2009 at 7:34 am
    Adorable Girlfriend said:

    I know someone who worked in that lab at BU! She loved it.