I agree with collinsworth . I feel dirty . <| sep |> Had to scroll way too far for this . <| sep |> For a million , yes . I assume that ' d be worse though , McGwire was 80 pounds heavier and was on a boatload of performance enhancersedit if it was in the knee instead of the thigh I ' d probably lean toward no <| sep |> I knew this would happen , but it doesn ' t make it any less horrible to experience <| sep |> I guess that ' s alwAys gonna happen with social benefits . It ' s not an argument against those benefits mind you . We could put much better policies in place to deal with that . Cough cough the Portugal model <| sep |> Agreed . Honeycomb is pretty much unidirectional , whereas the styrofoam filled helmets can be hit from any angle and absorb the energy . From the tests , it looks quite rigid to strikes normal to the surface . That could be deadly . You need a good crush on impact to dissipate the energy before it reaches the snowflake ' s head .