I vowed to boycott the NFL but man it’s tough! I have been a football junkie for 45 years. Can’t not watch when I catch a glimpse of a game on any level. A perfect spiral, a goal line stand, an acrobatic catch...football is a great spectator sport. A real round table discussion on the topic might be on the morality of its effect on the brains and skeletal systems of those who participate. I hear there’s a lot of ballers that couldn’t negotiate a flight of stairs while still in their late twenties. It is definitely tough on humans.
Eliminate steroids and 90% of that and probably most CTE too would all go away. Using steroids to make people's muscles superhuman size ans strength but leaving their bones and connective tissues unchanged is certainly crippling many and leading to much bigger hits than normal people could put out. But without the 'roids those circus catches and big runs would drop off and the NFL can't have that.