Soccer vs Football - Cancer or Concussions?

Soccer coach Amy Griffin was in a Seattle hospital visiting a young goalie who was receiving chemotherapy when a nurse said something that made the hair on Griffin’s neck stand up.

It was 2009. Two young female goalies Griffin knew had been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Griffin, associate head coach for the University of Washington’s women’s soccer team, had started to visit the women and other athletes in local hospitals, helping them pass the time during chemo with war stories from her three decades of coaching.

That day, the nurse looked down at the woman Griffin was sitting with and said, "Don't tell me you guys are goalkeepers. You're the fourth goalkeeper I've hooked up this week."

Since then, Griffin has compiled a list of 38 American soccer players -- 34 of them goalies – who have been diagnosed with cancer. At least a dozen played in Washington, but the geographic spread is nationwide. Blood cancers like lymphoma and leukemia dominate the list.

InTenSity wrote:That was longer than I thought it would be. 2 things stood out to me. Why is astroturf used? Monsanto is an evil ****ing company. If they're involved, I'm pretty sure it's unsafe.

CheesySpartan wrote:

Well the short answer to your question is "money"...shit it's also the long answer.  Come to think of it it's the answer to pretty much every question involving controversial products.