My son plays college football (Division 1 school), he’s senior this year....
He’s had three concussions. Laughingly, the worst one occurred in the locker room when the guys were “horsing” around, tripped, hit his head, split his scalp wide open.....rushed to the emergency room....
I’ve seen the good, bad and other in football as he’s grown up....
George Will is correct from one standpoint, their bodies take tremendous abuse, but unlike his hypothesis, they heal....
All sports damage the body when performed at a high level of competition. Check out a runners knees, hips and ankles. Or look at a baseball pitchers shoulder....
George Will’s solution is to perhaps to have sanctioned NCAA pillow fighting competition....
What a wimp!
If anyone actually reads what Will wrote he is somewhere between advocating the end of football and simply, as I have been saying for some time, acknowledging that it will not survive societal changes as is.