January 10, 2023
In a recent NFL Monday night game, the Buffalo Bills’ Damar Hamlin suffered heart failure after tackling Cincinnati Bengals receiver Tee Higgins. Associated Press said Higgins “led with his right shoulder, hitting Hamlin in the chest.” Hamlin’s heart stopped, and he was revived and taken to a hospital.
CNN asked, “Is a game that results in so much pain and suffering a reasonable pursuit in an enlightened society? Should we talk more about the 2017 Boston University study that found Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) in 99% of brains obtained from NFL players, as well as 91% of college football players?”
A Slate magazine article called football a “blood sport” and added, “Sometimes players leave games on boards. Sometimes they’re paralyzed. … But football has never held up a mirror to the rest of us, to make us think about what we’re watching, more than it did on Monday.”
The July 2018 issue of The Socionomist looked at the impact of negatively trending social mood on football’s image. It linked lows in the Dow Jones Industrial Average to scandalous discoveries about football’s association with head injuries. To learn more read “Bitter Blows: The Socionomic Story Behind the NFL’s Concussion Conundrum.”
If you look closely, you can see patterns in social mood that help you predict social trends. Learn more with the Socionomics Premier Membership.
The Socionomist enables you to see trend-shaping waves of social mood, as reflected by the stock market — and capitalize on them. The April 2023 issue looks at negative social mood’s influence on the tumultuous history of the Mexican Revolution. Mood Riffs topics include President Joe Biden’s reelection prospects, challenges facing corporate giants, the new workplace trend known as Bare-Minimum Monday, and British Columbia’s effort to relax laws governing hard drugs. Read the April issue when you become a Socionomics Premier Member. 
