“Helmets protect the skull, not whats inside it.”
The reason the problem will never be solved is that even the players think better helmets will somehow fix things, like Favre. Nothing about super fast giant freaks who can recover from intense training and heal like Wolverine after playing football at the level of the present day NFL. What they really need is Brain Growth Hormone, it might even things out.
Freegards
Go back to leather helmets and players will stop using their heads as battering rams.