Name: The Change in Football Around Head Trauma
Uploaded: 2022-06-29T17:24:37.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'The Change in Football Around Head Trauma' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-06-29. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'The Change in Football Around Head Trauma' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-06-29. Transcript available.

- The Joe Rogan Experience.
- Do you have any regrets that you didn't start fighting
like when you were young?
- I wish I, well, look, it's funny 'cause
like I started playing football
before all that concussion shit came out.
But all you heard about was like boxers with, you know,
head injuries or head trauma, CTE and shit
before it was called CTE.
So I always wanted, I always favored individual sports
over team sports, I fucking hated team sports.
I only started playing football
because my older brother played football
and then I realized that girls like football players.
And then I realized, oh, I'm kind of good at football,
so fuck, all right.
But I asked my mom, I was like, can I box?
And she was like, no, 'cause you're gonna fucking
get brain damage and you're gonna ruin your face
and I paid money for your braces and your teeth
and now you're gonna fuck your face up.
And then I was like, all right.
But then meanwhile, you know, she let me go run full speed
into another human being who's also running full speed,
you know, with like a piece of plastic on my head.
Like when I first started playing, I was like seven years old
and then it was like one size fits all.
My shoulder pads fucking came out to here
and my helmet was fucking wobbling around.
So like, you know, definitely it wasn't like 1950s,
but it ain't like it is now.
You know, so the only times I've ever been like knocked unconscious is playing
football,
which is a pretty scary fucking experience 'cause you lose time.
The first time I did it, we were doing a drill, I was like 12 years old.
Two guys 10 yards apart, there's a cone off to the side in the middle
and you literally run full speed and smash each other.
- That's the drill? - That's the drill.
It's like an angle tackle drill.
One guy's on offense, the running back, everybody else is on defense.
And so they say go, you got sprint, five yards, boom, at an angle and, you know,
car collision.
But dude, I hit this kid and I fucking got up, I was woozy, got to the back of
line and just boom.
You know, it's kind of like little giants, you wake up, everybody's around you.
You fucking, it's like, oh, that's okay, dude.
He does that to everybody.
I was like, fuck, y'all let me go with him, dude.
Y'all fucking, y'all don't like me, man.
And then when I was in college, I was running down on a kickoff.
Are you familiar with football?
- Yeah. - So I was running down on a kickoff
and at the time, you can't even do this anymore, but they'd put like the
offense
and defensive linemen in the wedge and the dude with the ball would just,
and they were just like fucking clear house.
So I was just like, fuck it and just close my eyes and dove in there.
- Oh. - And like my neck, and it was like on the far sideline.
My next cognitive memory is like I'm walking around on our sideline.
I'm like, dude, how the fuck did I get here?
I was just over there.
Now I'm here. - Wow.
- And then like five minutes later, all right, kickoff team, go again.
I was like, dude, I don't, I don't know if I should do that.
But you know, at the time it's like, dude, you can't be a pussy, dude, just
fucking go.
- Mm. - And now they're like, oh, dude.
- Now they stop people from doing shit like that, right?
- Yeah, they're like, uh.
- If you get KO'd now on a football game, do they just stop and get you out?
- If they even suspect you of having a concussion, they take your helmet when
you're done.
- Oh. - When you're done.
And there's, you know, when I played, like, shit like that was encouraged.
- Wow. - Oh, he doesn't want to play anymore?
Pfft, bitch. - Really?
- Pussy.
Like, actually, you know, that guy's actually, you know, a little bit smarter
than the rest of us.
- Isn't it crazy that it's so recent that they've figured all this out?
- Yeah. And, well, I think, uh, I think the big turning point, there was a guy
named, uh,
Junior Seau, who was a linebacker for, uh, the Chargers.
- Committed suicide. - Committed suicide.
- And they, you know, they don't know if you have CTE till after you die and
they study your brain.
And they're like, his brain's not right, you know?
And, uh, so then that, after that, I think is when they started, you know,
changing the rules and
stuff. Cause, you know, the football has its play today. It doesn't really look
like how it was.
Like the big hits was encouraged. Blind sides were encouraged. It's like, oh,
dude,
you saw what I just did to that guy. If I can, you know, laugh about it.
- Right. Now you get kicked out of the game and you have to sit out to fall in
the game as well.
- Really? So they're trying to figure out a way to make the craziest, most non-safe
sport ever
safe. - I was like, you know, so like, I think a lot of people were like
ignorant back then,
but now, you know, like the risks that you're taking. So sign the waiver and go.
- Sign the waiver. And also, you know, it's a opportunity for greatness. That's
the thing. It's like,
you will take that risk. But if you become a superstar, the rewards are pretty
substantial.
I mean, if you're a superstar in the NFL and you can, you can bang out five,
six years,
like you make a substantial amount of money. - Get that money.
Like if I knew then what I knew now, would I still play football? Absolutely.
There's nothing
you could have done to stop me from, from playing outside of an injury. Like,
yeah, dude, I fucking,
I loved football. I like everything that came with football. I love the
lifestyle of football.
And, you know, at the time I thought I was going to make a lot of money playing
football. So, you know,
yeah, I'll take the risk and, you know, same thing with fighting. Like, oh, you're
worried about your
brain. I mean, we'll cross that bridge when we get there. - You seem fine now.
- Yeah. Well, I, you know, I, you know, I think mushrooms help. NAD helps. -
Yeah.
- Yeah. - Uh, I guess that's like preventative stuff. Uh, so. - Mm-hmm.