[Don Hernando de Las Casas]

Interesting, especially the part about TD/INT ratios. I’ll have to look into that.

But we’re talking about 2 diff things.

You’re talking about making the game safer, I’m ridiculing the lefty, football kills “science,’ just as I ridicule their global warming “science,” and their 2nd hand smoke “science”.

[Dr. Sivana]

You’re talking about making the game safer, I’m ridiculing the lefty, football kills “science,’ just as I ridicule their global warming “science,” and their 2nd hand smoke “science”.

Just as you don't have to be an anti-smoking nazi to agree that smoking can cause problems, you don't have to agree that football kills to agree that long-term play is debilitating for a lot of people. I'd like to mitigate that so the game doesn't get ruined.

This isn't the first time rules were changed for safety. From Wikipedia (Forward Pass):

906 rule change

1905 had been a bloody year on the gridiron; the Chicago Tribune reported 18 players had been killed and 159 seriously injured that season.[6] There were moves to outlaw the game, but United States President Theodore Roosevelt personally intervened and demanded that the rules of the game be reformed.

They do not come tougher than TR, and he's about as "politically incorrect" as any president since Andrew Jackson. Bully!