The best high school players in the country will be participating in the U.S. Army All-American Bowl Saturday, set to kick off at 1 p.m. ET on NBC. Many of them will be using an innovative technology that could help change the way concussions are treated.
John Taylor of CFT has all the details on the device which helps to diagnose concussions. The device will be inserted into the chinstrap of many players, and measures the g-force of a collision.
Depending on the force of the hit, a light indicator will alert sideline personnel on three levels of a possible concussion. The player can then be evaluated quickly on the sideline to determine whether it’s a serious problem.
While we’re here, we may as well mention Florio and Peter King will be appearing at halftime of the game before our Saturday wild card double header.
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The NFL can borrow its new catch phrase from the backs of trucks nationwide “Our lights are on for Safety”.
Great news
What a waste of time. Doesn’t the NCAA realize that fining the players tons of money works WAY better than innovative technology.
What I find ironic is the NFL is taking all kinds of steps to help ensure player safety while the NFLPA appears to be more or less standing idly by.
Makes you wonder, who’s really only in it for the money and who really cares about the players?
borrowing technology from “Rock ‘em Sock ‘em Robots”
The device will also tell the coachs if an RPG has blown the guys head off.
Gives whole new meaning to “lighting a guy up”.
I read about this a while back, or something similar. It was a helmet, quite expensive, that could be plugged into a computer to see what the force of the collision(s) were. As I have been saying for a LONG time, the newer tech helmets should be mandatory. I still can’t believe players at all levels are still using the older type of helmet.
“Yo, Bubba, you lit that dude up to level 3. Awesome!”.
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I think hobartbaker should have this technology on his keyboard, if and when he tries another lame attempt at humor, the keyboard will light up an idiocy level, and maybe then he will realize…
It’s nice to know someone is exploring ways to use technology to improve player safety.
Who let Alosi in at the All American Bowl?
BRAVO, Patsfan!
Top freakin notch.