[Fiji Hill]

All sports are dangerous. Baseball players have been killed by bean balls. Tennis players have broken their arms while chasing balls. Surfers have been eaten by sharks.

[hanamizu]

All sports are dangerous. Baseball players have been killed by bean balls.

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Agreed, but football at the collegiate and professional level has become so lucrative that you see faster, stronger 300-players (in many cases no doubt chemically “enhanced”) in the game. Basketball players keep getting taller and taller and football players keep getting bigger and bigger. Add that to the fact that they wear what amounts to body armor and they can hit that much harder.

Perhaps if football players wore rugby uniforms (the games are reasonably similar) you’d have fewer concussions. I know that rugby players do get concussed but the game is trying to limit it.

Teddy Roosevelt, a man who often took life-threatening risks, wanted to ban college football. Football responded by eliminating the “flying wedge”. Perhaps some rule changes can save the sport this time.