TNF Football: Pantera vs. Orleans

Panthers win.  Step one in righting this season.

Always liked DimeBag

I still think Scam Newton sounds like a braying donkey. 

bvan posted:

Always liked DimeBag

R.I.P.  

The world lost more than it knows when some asshat charged the stage.

FU Asshats!

Looks like I missed an actual decent game.

Watching Kuechly after that hit was pretty rough. 

Getting concussed from that hit was odd. Watching him grasping for breath that like that and the emotional response was tough.

Pseudobulbar affect is a condition that can follow concussions in a minority of patients. Also called emotional incontinence, it involves uncontrollable crying (or, perhaps even more horrifically, laughing) after a traumatic brain injury. The mechanisms aren’t perfectly understood, but they’re believed to result from a disruption of the neural networks that regulate emotion. Tears, in some instances, are every bit the visual indicator as the fencing response that something has gone horribly wrong in the brain.

Obviously, not a doctor, and not saying that is what this was, but sure seems plausible.  

I didn't watch 1 second of this game so I'll focus on Pantera.

Sadly, I never knew much about Pantera until after the murder of Dimebag.  They had a couple of excellent tunes in the early '90s that quite frankly, I either ignored or never heard during that time period.  It wasn't until after the shooting incident that I realized I had missed something pretty good and started listening to more Pantera maybe 10-15 years after they were at their peak. 

Seeing Kuechly after the hit, which looked like such a minor hit, was difficult. The guy has so much respect around the league. I was wondering if he had a chest, lung or heart injury that caused him to have a difficult time breathing because it looked like as soon as he got hit his body language showed he was hurt.

You have to wonder when an RB leads with the crown of his head as well. He could have been the one being carted off with a neck injury. 

Thanks, PBA, couldn't recall what it was called. Saw this with a teammate in HS after a brutal check into the boards in a hockey game. 6'2" 235lbs and he couldn't stop whimpering and had the hub-bups trying to get his breath. I recall that he later had no recollection of the whimpering or trying to get his breath.

** edit ** don't think it was called that back then (1977).

CAPackFan95 posted:

 

Pseudobulbar affect is a condition that can follow concussions in a minority of patients. Also called emotional incontinence, it involves uncontrollable crying (or, perhaps even more horrifically, laughing) after a traumatic brain injury. The mechanisms aren’t perfectly understood, but they’re believed to result from a disruption of the neural networks that regulate emotion. Tears, in some instances, are every bit the visual indicator as the fencing response that something has gone horribly wrong in the brain.  

Yeah, this is the commercial for some new drug starring Danny Glover we see on TV from time to time, talking about people not being able to control laughter/crying after head injuries. I had never heard of this condition before the first time I saw it.
I think a lot of us recall reading in "Instant Replay" the time Kramer got his bell rung so hard in a game, his teammates (Forrest Gregg, specifically, if memory still serves) described him a "being in a stupor", and having to ask what he was supposed to do before every play. That was about the extent of my knowledge of how a head injury could impact a person.
I also remember the first time I saw a player get knocked out so hard, he got "stiff arms" (the fencing response). I had never heard of or seen that condition before, and it was shocking! A bit more dramatic than some of these:

I've seen 'the fencing response' many times in MMA.

I've seen that a couple of times when watching NFL and a WR gets his head nailed, hits the ground and his hands come up. Especially in the days when Jack Tatum was wandering around trying to behead guys.