It's Fall and football time. And, it's the time every year for some girly men to start talking about damage to brains. There is always someone who want to change the rules to make football safer. Autopsies found that 99% of former professional football players had brain damage.
Look, every football team has guys lined up wanting to play. We have no shortage of brains that are ready to be sacrificed.
And then you wonder, are we losing anything of value? How many Albert Einsteins do we need? Lots of players don't need their brains after they retire from football.
Des Moines Register: High school football starts Friday night. College football begins Saturday with programs big and small taking the field for the new season. The NFL season starts Sept. 7.
And as all those young men crashing into each other at top speed for our collective entertainment, I want to introduce you to Jay Myers, the man who wants to blow up football to save it.
He's disturbed by the growing evidence that repeated football collisions lead to long-term and life-threatening brain damage, in addition to the myriad physical maladies we always knew the violent game produced.
MUST READ: Football 'literally killed' a 24-year-old Iowan
Myers is from Loveland, Ohio, a suburb of Cincinnati. He played fullback in high school.
He's 82 and a former physical sciences editor for World Book Encyclopedia. (For younger readers, an "encyclopedia" is like a printout of Wikipedia, only with better research and writing.)
Look, every football team has guys lined up wanting to play. We have no shortage of brains that are ready to be sacrificed.
And then you wonder, are we losing anything of value? How many Albert Einsteins do we need? Lots of players don't need their brains after they retire from football.
Des Moines Register: High school football starts Friday night. College football begins Saturday with programs big and small taking the field for the new season. The NFL season starts Sept. 7.
And as all those young men crashing into each other at top speed for our collective entertainment, I want to introduce you to Jay Myers, the man who wants to blow up football to save it.
He's disturbed by the growing evidence that repeated football collisions lead to long-term and life-threatening brain damage, in addition to the myriad physical maladies we always knew the violent game produced.
MUST READ: Football 'literally killed' a 24-year-old Iowan
Myers is from Loveland, Ohio, a suburb of Cincinnati. He played fullback in high school.
He's 82 and a former physical sciences editor for World Book Encyclopedia. (For younger readers, an "encyclopedia" is like a printout of Wikipedia, only with better research and writing.)
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