>>>>>>>Snowbound and nursing a winter cold, I watched the Bronco's beat the Patriots in the first NFL game I've seen in a while.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>I never was an NFL fan. Once the Giants moved to New Jersey I lost the little interest I had, but I hardly recognize that sport any more.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>It was always a violent sport, but I don't think I saw a single classic tackle on Sunday. Instead of going for the legs with their arms and shoulders, these defensive players toss their bodies like projectiles at an oncoming opponent's upper body.
>>>>>>>And these bodies are unlike anything I've seen on a football field.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Then I came across this today.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/27/sports/football/former-giants-safety-tyler-sash-found-to-have-cte.html
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Watch this movie sometime.
>>>>>>http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3322364/
>>>>>
>>>>>I will
>>>>>Here's another related story:
>>>>>http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2587478-how-record-setting-qb-with-video-game-numbers-finally-landed-fbs-offer
>>>>>
>>>>>5'11" and 170 at one time was OK for a pro QB.
>>>>>With 6'6" mammoths charging at you can't see your target anymore
>>>>
>>>>I don't think the NFL cares at all about the health of their players. If they did, then some of these rules would change. When you see all these cheap-shots, and worst thing you see happen is maybe a 15 yard penalty - that does not cut it. It needs to be where the player is ejected from the whole game, if not the whole season. They've made a few new rules in an attempt to protect QB's and defenseless receivers - but the new rules are pointless and stupid if there is not a major consequence to pay.
>>>
>>>The NFL and the NCAA do a great propaganda job, as you just demonstrated.
>>>It's not the players.
>>>Coaches and owners are picking these people knowing full well that they're vicious thugs.
>>>
>>>http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/eye-on-football/23560475/ray-lewis-on-aaron-hernandez-patriots-had-to-know-something
>>>Do you really think that Bill Belichick thought this monster was an altar boy?
>>>
>>>It actually starts in the high schools. These animals are given a free pass if they can break thru the line or cripple an opponent- no matter how- and the more vicious they are, the higher they're rated.
>>>
>>>There are tens of billions involved here, when you consider the NCAA and NFL.
>>>$2 million is a low salary for an NCAA coach. These people are products of the same system that produced Aaron Hernandez.
>>>
>>>Bulk up drugs are the same. The teams benefit more than the players do when these guys shoot themselves up with that stuff.
>>>Look at that Gronkowski guy. People are just not made that way naturally.
>>
>>All very true. There are a huge number of number of NFL players that get arrested every dang year.
>>http://www.usatoday.com/sports/nfl/arrests/
>>
>>..The NFL and the coaches simply need to tell a lot of these guys that they're no longer eligible to play.
>>
>If they did, you have to shut down the NFL, cable TV, Anheuser Bussh and most of the bars in the US
>
>Seriously,
>
>These coaches have been following these players since high school.
>They know more about the people they hire than any management in the world, and so does the press which, while also making hundreds of millions out of this, expresses dismay over a late hit and a head shot or the fact that a player, whose biceps doubled in size in five years on national TV, is using PED.

You need to change the rules of the game to make impact less a part of the game. The same thing is happening (bigger and bigger players) to some extent in rugby. Not as much as American football which (to me) seems to involve an enormous amount of collision.