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To be fair, the focus from everyone in the NFL and college game are hits like these:
With good reason, they're fucking brutal and vicious. But if you think about the way football is played... olinemen and dlinemen are like sumo wrestlers in that they're smashing their heads into each other EVERY goddamn play.
Like, you look at most olineman unless they get injured they play EVERY fucking offensive down their team takes and are colliding helmets with the DTs and defensive ends opposite them EVERY play and sometimes colliding with linebackers too. Sumo wrestlers are the same that "crack" you hear at a match isn't the fat skin colliding (it could be some) but their skulls colliding. You ever take a good look at big time sumo wrestlers foreheads and they almost all look like someone took a cast iron pan to i.
I would imagine most o-lineman have concussion like symptoms after every game but because they don't go down in a heap ala Austin Collie looking like he get shot they never get checked out.
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It's like any combat sport. The Franklin over Quarry KO, the Cro Cop over Igor and Aleks kick, the Martinez KO of Williams I think it was get all the play for how brutal they look and how the other guy looked dead after them but look at Chuck... dude used to take shot after shot after shot and compared to Quarry he's a goddamn drooling vegetable now in terms of how the head contact has impacted him.
Like, these are super SUPER scary to watch cause of what could happen to their necks and shit but linemen are colliding heads ALL the time.
I disagree on most of what you said regarding olinemen. Linebackers, fullbacks, wedgebreak (kickoff), are the guys with the concussions. Olineman arent generating the big hits as they dont have the room for acceleration.
Olineman is much more technique and strength oriented. Think of Greco Roman wrestling. The instigating hit is all about getting a bump in momentum that you can use to manipulate your opponent.
I played 7 years tackle football and nearly every position. Lineman had the biggest guys and was probably the most grueling position, but I took much harder hits consistantly as full back