Yadayadayada. Just because he was a Republican. Everyone who played then played without a helmet, of course, my grandfather included.
Some bigger names were Dwight Eisenhower and George Patton, not exactly dummies. . .
Amazing how playing WITH a helmet became a life threatening scenario after all the NFL players became juiced up behemoths. The issue isn't helmet's people, it's men using drugs to put their bodies way beyond normal human levels of performance, they inflict and take way more damage than normal people do.