You are correct. The Doctor who was the first do document CTE, Dr. Omalu, played by WIll Smith in the movie, just recently stated “having children play football even though HS is CHILD ABUSE”. Now, I am not saying I agree with the statement, but all it is going to take is for a kid to get killed or hurt seriously in the next few years and some lawyer use this statement by Dr. Omalu and file a lawsuit against a school district. The cost of the lawsuit will economically make football too much of a liability and you will begin to see football banned across more and more school districts.
Football will become more like Boxing in the next 25 years. Recall that from 1900 to 1950, Boxing along with Baseball were the two most popular sports. By the 1960’s the NFL took over and baseball fell to number 2. After the death of the Korean boxer in the ring in the 1980’s and Ali’s CTE issues, boxing today is not on the radar.
I don’t think football will fall as far as boxing, but it will face a decline in participation in the future, thus popularity.
I attribute boxing's decline to two things: (1) pay-per-view boxing drove up the cost of watching matches on TV that used to be free; and (2) the fact that most of its followers finally figured out that many of the matches were fixed anyway.
Boxing lost its audience to pro wrestling first (if you're going to watch a staged fight, it might as well be an entertaining one), and later to MMA fighting.
They are trying to reconfigure this as a concussion issue, correctable by helmets.
That is TOTALLY WRONG.
The issue is thousands of sub-concussion rattlings of the brain causing physiological changes (i.e., permanent, progressive brain damage).
Everyone needs to watch the Will Smith movie before commenting further. Otherwise, you will just be SUCKING UP the DISINFO.
For the record, I still love boxing and football. But let’s at least BE HONEST, so the people directly involved (athletes and families) are not deceived.
how many dead miners have they checked for CTE?...how about dead construction workers?...iron workers?...truckdrivers?...
they took a set number of dead guys and found all this CTE?...compared to which other group?..
do they intend on doing postmortem brain biopsies on every NFL player?...
no doubt repeated concussions would cause harm but is that harm only limited to famous millionaire ex nflers?...
plenty of older NFL guys around with smarts...
I wonder if we're really looking at years of roid abuse that set the table for CTE....