Football is a violent sport. I don’t know if there is a way to make it safer unless we wrap people’s heads in bubble wrap. The NFL has spent millions on technology to improve helmets but it’s never going to be good enough. These guys are taking blows that are the equivalent of running head first into a brick wall over and over and over. No helmet can protect against that sufficiently for there not to be long term effects.

I don’t worry about the NFL players as much, because “they make a ton of money and that’s what they signed on for” but what about the people who don’t get paid? What about high school and college players, most of whom play for joy of the game? Those are the people I’m really worried about.