How many concussions did you have?
 

I can't even begin to count 'em...nor do I even begin to remember them all...but I reckon that's pretty obvious ;).

Serious subject matter...

I'd guess ten...as a youngin'....

1 good one...I completely lost a whole evening of memory when my car got hit by a train. Evidently I crossed the tracks doing about 5 mph (I was looking) and the train was so close, that I couldn't see his headlight above me. Of course my radio was blaring, senior year of high school, and luckily alone with no passengers.

Seven.

Three required overnights at the hospital. Remember them all. One was during homecoming game...flappin' like a flounder on the beach at mid-field, knocked out cold. Blegh........

None of mine were playing organized football...I sucked ;). Plenty in pick-up games, and just being a kid and teenager....yep, knocked out cold only a couple of times, but getting yer bell rung and "seeing stars" was not an unusual event...for all if us...

"Dazed and Confused" wasn't just a Zep song back then...

I don't remember it but apparently when I was about 2 or 3 I climbed up on the kitchen counter to get to the cookie jar and fell off. I did survive though :)

lol...I meant seven knocked out cold.

One of the worst reminds me of an old "Farside" cartoon:

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We were playing freeze-tag where the only way to get un-frozen was to have someone dive under you legs...two of us dove for the same guy at the same time. Parents had to come back from a convention in Florida for that one.

Never. Not one.

I remember my first....around 6-7....back when day care was a nice lady who could cook, 30 youngins and a big fenced yard. Rare snow storm....sled ran smack into a big tree and stopped cold....me and my head didn't....til we met the tree too ;). My dad always said I was hard headed...90% of my football daze, and we played every weekend in the fall, was just hard hitting stupidity...

You're from NC..."Smear the Queer" was always a good way for someone to get knocked silly SmileWavy

Recess ;) ....unsupervised of course!

Same here. I didn't play any sports past fifth grade as that would have meant my parents would have had to drive me places.

Wow, I had forgotten that, but I sure remember it.

My brother is 2.5 years older than me. When one kind is 6 and the other 8.5 that is a huge difference in size. He was a real bully. He broke my arm once and my front teeth died and needed root canals from repeated punches to the face. I for sure stars a few times but I don't think he ever knocked me out.

I had a few epic bicycle crashes, but just road rash and no concussions.

So to answer the OP, none that I know of.

No saying for sure how many incidents there were as a child that I don't recall or were not told about.

So officially zero for me, but unconfirmed. I have seen stars and felt a little nauseous, but never knocked out cold

I have a little sister about nine years younger than me, once she hit her head pretty hard, my mom instructed us not to let her nap or fall asleep. As the fifth child I guess she had the benefit of Mom's experience on her side.

One that I know of. HS football in late summer just prior to the season opener. Lost all short term memory for a day or so. Have permanent antegrade amnesia for the three days prior to the event.

All I remember is waking up at home not understanding why I was so sore all over. Apparently I looked conscious but nothing was getting saved into the hardrive. Absolutely and totally freaked my mom out. Nuerologist said to keep an eye on me. No such thing as CT, PET, or other scans. I don't think maganets were even invented yet back then.

I was thinking about this the other day. I can remember a few games/plays where I was plastered and maybe saw starts, whatever that means. But I think none if I understand the definition.

My bigger issue is my joints, man my knees and ankles and hips and... are crunchy. Snap crackle pop!

TWO!

one required a stay at the hospital. i kept vomiting. it is reason i learned how to ski. up till then the only fast way for me down a snowy hill was on an inner tube. i was 13.

then in college. ultimate frisbee. simple collision with a friend. knocked me out cold.

Zero for me too. but............ I have seen stars and felt a little nauseous, but never knocked out cold.

Zero. And I played tons of ultimate frisbee in college and a lot of soccer, even in England where they rough you up pretty good. I guess I've been lucky.

Knocked out cold once that I remember. But we played football, jumped our bicycles,wiped out on ice skates and crashed skateboards all the time without wearing helmets. So who knows how many mild ones I've had. I have been "knocked silly" more than once.

Sandlot football. Bonked my head hard on frozen ground. Don't remember much of that evening. I'd call that a minor but official one.

Organized football. Half of a minor. Bull in the ring. Is that smear the queer? I was the "bull". Coach is screaming get your head lower. Well the guy that put me down listened too. Helmet to helmet.

Also got kicked in the head hard in a street fight. Did not care for that sensation one bit.

Just for a little levity.....

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3 times out cold. Once playing some sort of recess game, head to head, only I went down.
Second, who knows what happened, the neighbor found me out on in their yard, I must have gone off my bike and hit the sidewalk. Lost about 24 hours from that one.
Third, sitting on a tennis net farting around, fell backwards, straight down to the concrete. Woke up to my two friends freaking out, they didn't bother, you know, calling for help or anything...


That kinda stuff doesn't happen to kids these days, sitting on the couch playing video games and getting fat is much safer than being outside doing stuff...

A LOT, I'm Sure!! Between decades of BMX, skating, surfing, and the other "fun stuff" guys do

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too many to remember unfortunately. Played Football throughout College.

One, playing hockey on a frozen lake. Split my chin open too, was knocked out cold. I’m

Just one, car hit me on my bicycle.

Seven. No, six. Yeah, that's right, eight.

None of mine were "official".... but the way we played without helmets (tackled) and the hits we took would sit yer azz on the bench in the NFL these daze ....

Two major ones that I know of. I was ~ 12 and executed a perfect endo on my bicycle and woke up a while later getting the blood washed off by my Dad. About 20 years ago I passed out in a store and my head hit the concrete floor. Halo skull fracture and was in ICU for a couple days. Wife said the sound of my head hitting was sickening.

First or maybe second year of riding a bike I got spooked by a car horn and went head first into a mailbox. Woke up on the couch of the mailbox owner. No harm no foul. Bu
t were those different times....


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Just one three years ago when on vacation in S Africa. Memorable ride in the Ambulance through Durban careening through the streets. E.R., tests, M.D. x-rays all cost..... drum roll please.... $45 U.S. thought I was hallucinating again.

Just one that I recall. I pulled myself out of the game at half, told the coach no more. 12-13 years of age. I caught hell, until the back up QB got pummeled, over and over.

I'm no Tom Brady.

I'd say 3-5, and I didn't really play organized sports. My parents wouldn't let me play school football either. This thread is a great illustration of why people freaking out about their kids playing football is stupid, very few of the concussions listed here actually are related to football.

That's why I started this thread....some folks want to make it illegal for kids to play organized, SUPERVISED, tackle football, before a certain age...methinks they've had way more concussions than I did.

Well then, if we are going to practice some amateur science based on forum observations, I'm going to take a whack at it if you don't mind.

We cannot have a friendly discussion about gas cans in the forum because one guy that has previously bragged (in PARF) about multiple concussions including twice cracking his own football helmet cannot control his aggression.

Aggression after Traumatic Brain Injury: Prevalence & Correlates
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2918269/
But hey, trust your own science, and I'll trust mine and that of the medical profession.

And if you want to contact me, I'll be out for a while checking out the weather in my backyard for evidence of global climate change. ;)

WTF...and who are you talking about? I'll shoot yer azz if you come after my old skool spouts....but it'll be friendly fire :). I did play "at" organized football in grades 7-8...but I was a scrawny runt trying to play against young men with facial hair. The point is...stupid laws won't stop stupid kids from doing stupid schit...unsupervised :(

Not then...not now, not ever...;)

Congrats captain obvious, we all know concussions are bad. This thread is also good evidence that despite what the lying media wants you to believe, football is not the only way to get a concussion. A friend of mine played college soccer, he wagers that he easily had 10 concussions between taking a header wrong and colliding head-on with other players. One of my friends currently has a 5th grader playing club soccer, in one game they lost players to a concussion, a broken orbital bone, and a broken arm. ONE GAME. My 8th grader has played tackle football since 3rd grade, I can remember maybe one broken arm and two concussions for any kid on his team during that timeframe. The good in organized sports, any of them, dramatically outweighs the bad.

My six year old plays hockey (and my two year old is itching to get on the ice). I must say that I'm hesitant to let him compete when he gets older and checking becomes allowed. (This is usually when the concussions start for hockey players.)

That said, it's my understanding that CTE is bad for boxers and football players because of repeated concussions over a lifetime. They estimate that some of these folks have had over a hundred concussions in their lifetime and as many as a dozen each year of playing. I don't think that one or two concussions in a lifetime is much of a concern.

No concussions that I know of, but I got my bell rung pretty good a few times playing football.

FWIW I think youth hockey helmets should be redesigned to provide better protection to the back of the head. I saw a kid go down on his back and the helmet slid up allowing the back of his head to contact the ice hard, That was a scary 5 minutes.