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Gildo Santiago
First of all, I do like football. Let me just make that clear. I gave seven years, seven of my youngest, prettiest years to being a cheerleader for football, basketball and wrestling. I have watched more Pee Wee league football, Pop Warner football, JV and varsity high school football, JV and varsity college level and professional football for over over 60 years, more than probably anyone in this room, and, yes, I thought the Falcons/Patriots game was the most exciting football game in history, but in my honest opinion, it is totally crazy that the winning advantage in a Super Bowl tie is determined by means of a coin toss! Sad. But that is as butch as I am going to get all night.
And I want to thank [HRC president] Chad [Griffin] and everyone at the Human Rights Campaign for this moving and meaningful honor, which I completely dedicate to my gay and trans teachers, colleagues, agents, mentors and friends, who should take the credit (or the blame) for my being here tonight because they taught me from a very young age, and continue to remind me every day, the very best lesson: to be myself and to take joy in my work and in my life.
My piano teacher, George Vauss, 80 years old in 1965, lived in a little house in the woods in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, with his partner, Phil (his lover, my mother told me, of 50 years). His house was a magical place, filled with music, birds and exotica: collectibles from their trips through Central and South America. I am not going to introduce you to all my gay teachers, just some of the most influential personalities in my past, the memorable people who made me an artist and who lived, unnecessarily, under duress.
Which brings us to now. We should not be surprised that fundamentalists, of every stripe, are exercised and fuming. We should not be surprised that these profound changes come at a steeper cost than we originally thought. We should not be surprised that not everyone is actually cool with it.
Here we are in 2017, the year the browser seems to have gone down. In danger of losing much of our information, we seem to be reverting to factory settings. But we are not going to go back to the bad old days of ignorance and harassment, oppression and hiding who we are. Because we owe it to the people who have died for our rights (and who died before they got their own). We owe it to the pioneers of the LGBTQ movement, like Paula Grossman, and to the people on the frontlines of all civil-rights movements, not to let them down. Yes, I am the most overrated, overdecorated and, currently, over-berated actress, who likes football, of my generation. But that is why you invited me here! Right?
The following question is one I received from a long-time listener of my show and someone who frequently comments on the discussions in social media. Since his question involves a topic that requires a complex explanation, I am breaking my answer up into a blog post and a discussion during the In the Zone segment of Episode 74 of The Dr. David Geier Show.
Our varsity football team practices on grass field and play more than half of their games on turf. We had 3 meniscus injuries on the turf fields. Two were medial and one lateral; all 3 were repair. Also had a tibia/fibula fracture without impact. When asking the injured kids what they thought about the turf they all said it feels like their cleats stick into the ground.
I looked for studies comparing knee injuries as a whole that occurred in football on FieldTurf and natural grass. If the studies offered data specifically for ACL injuries on the different surfaces, I included them as well. I will basically compare grass to FieldTurf rather than older-generation artificial turf, as the newest infill surfaces seem to be replacing their predecessors.
In a study performed by the National Football League Injury and Safety Panel, published in the October 2012 issue of the American Journal of Sports Medicine, Elliott B. Hershman et al. reviewed injury data from NFL games played between 2000 and 2009.
They found that the injury rate of knee sprains as a whole was 22% higher on FieldTurf than on natural grass. While MCL sprains did not occur at a rate significantly higher than on grass, rates of ACL sprains were 67% higher on FieldTurf.
Dragoo et al. reviewed the National Collegiate Athletic Association Injury Surveillance System for injuries between 2004 and 2009 to attempt to identify risk factors for ACL tears in college football. In their study, published in the May 2012 issue of the American Journal of Sports Medicine, they observed that rates of ACL tears were higher on artificial turf than on natural grass. When they isolated infill turf surfaces, such as FieldTurf, the ACL injury rate was significantly higher than on natural grass.
It is worth pointing out that there are studies showing conflicting data. Meyers studied football injuries at 24 universities over three seasons. Comparing all injuries (and not just ACL tears), he found no difference in the rate of knee injuries from games played on natural grass and those on FieldTurf.
Through the stories of a dozen athletes whose injuries and recovery advanced the field (including Joan Benoit, Michael Jordan, Brandi Chastain, and Tommy John), Dr. Geier explains how sports medicine makes sports safer for the pros, amateurs, student-athletes, and weekend warriors alike.
Coiste Chontae an Din and the family that is Down GAA are saddened to learn of the death of an icon of Down football, Dan McCartan a man whose Senior Inter County career spanned 18 Seasons and saw him win three Senior All Ireland Medals, three National League Medals, eight Ulster Senior Football Medals, four Railway Cup Medals and an All-Ireland Handball Medal.
Dan McCartan, was about more than the Medals won on the field, he was a man of stature and a leader, a man of vision with a great empathy with the youth of our Association both in Club and in County. Dan transcended the boundary from being a County player to being a County Administrator and all with the aim of making a real difference to the lives of those he would encounter.
At half time in 1968 with Down leading by 2-7 to 0-5 Dan was the one cautioning Team Management not to be praising the display, he knew there were another 30 minutes and to play and that this was Kerry after all. Many times, in that second half Dan would clear his lines and show leadership as Down would go on to win a third All Ireland and the men of 60 and 61 had guided the next generation to a famous victory.
75 without enjoying success, Dan together with Sean O Neill had played in a remarkable tally of 16 Ulster Senior Finals and as they both left Clones that day it was to be their last Championship appearances in the Red and Black.
Retirement was never going to be an easy role for Dan, he had too much to give and in 1977, he would join his brother James as part of a Senior Management Team and in 1978 Down would return as Ulster Champions with a win over old rivals Cavan. In 1979 Dan was part of the Team Management that would secure the first ever All Ireland Under 21 Title with victory over Cork.
In 1991 there was no prouder man than Dan when his son Mark would win an All-Ireland Medal as a member of a Down Panel that would also feature his nephew James, the love of the game and of the Red and Black had passed across the generations.
Danny was elected County Youth Officer in 1986, having been a member of the Youth Board in the years previous, and had represented his County as a delegate at GAA Congress. Dan was a man who believed in our young people, and he was always willing to share his experiences with them, as part of a Minor Management, in what were different and difficult times, Dan always ensured that the player returned home safely from training and matches even if he had to undertake that duty himself.
Dan won two Championship medals with Glenn in 1959 and 1963 and when he returned to play with Tullylish, he was part of a team that reached the Championship Final of 1971. He would then transfer to Carryduff and continue to play for the Club into his fifties, and remarkably in the 1978 season Dan and his old St Colmans teammate PT Treacy would line out alongside a 15-year-old Greg Blaney in a team that spanned the generations.
Dan put his heart and his sole into the Carryduff Club, and he was very proud of the growth of the Club in the past decade which has seen Carryduff develop facilities that reflect a thriving GAA Community in this part of our County.
Dan McCartan was a man who gave of his time freely to Down and to the Clubs that he served Glenn, Tullylish and Carryduff, in his professional career he was a dentist and again he was always there to look after many GAA players who needed emergency treatment after hours and at weekends, all done without a second thought.
We in Down GAA were privileged to have Dan McCartan in our midst, he was a man who spanned the generations and had a great affinity with people of all ages, he was widely respected throughout the game, a man who stood strong and was an outstanding defender of his time.
Dan was one of those men who helped make us the proud people that we are, the present generations of Down Footballers are the inheritors and custodians of the proud tradition handed down to them by the deeds of men like Dan McCartan. His passing has robbed us of one of our greatest sons, a man who loved his football, his handball, his GAA, his Club, his County, and most of all his family, a truly great Gael who we are proud to say was one of our own.
We extend our deepest sympathy to Dan's partner Betty, his son Mark, his daughters in law Joan, Andrea and Sharon, his step sons Gary and Jason, his Sisters Gay, Delia and Eileen, sister-in-law Marie, brothers in law, George, Felix and Seamus and his grandchildren, Jamie, Jorden, Daniel, Sean, Ethan, Ross, Jack, Asla and Adam.
The ACL (anterior cruciate ligament) is an important ligament that helps to stabilize the knee. Injury to the ACL can affect anyone, and is especially common in athletes. Whether from a direct impact with another person in sport or a sudden twist of the knee, the ligament can tear, often requiring surgery and physiotherapy.[1] There is also a high risk of reinjury of the ACL following repair[2] - one of the main focuses of physiotherapy following an ACL injury is to reduce this risk and to help people return to their own optimal function.
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