True. Look at how many ex-NFLs in their 50s and 60s can barely walk. Hip and knee replacements are common. Now combine that with what we are learning about repeated blows to the head, and fewer guys in high school--and thus college, and thus the pros--will be playing football. At least guys who have better career options and want to live a long and healthy life.
And if that happens where will the NFL draw their players from 10 or 15 years from now.
The same demographic as professional boxing.
I signed the permission slip for my son to play high school football 10 years ago. I’m not so sure I’d do it today, knowing what I now know.
Yeah, without football, those professional players would all have become Rhodes scholars and brain surgeons.
They had a chance to get out of the ghetto and make huge bucks for themselves and their families. That most of them blew it is no one’s fault but their own. Certainly not the NFL that gave these people a chance to get out of the hellhole ghetto.