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Originally Posted by Jgrooms
American football will die a slow death imo. Parents are already refusing to allow boys to play as more & more studies confirm CTE. Of course, this is a class situation. Affluent parents weigh the risk and say nope. The less than affluent, who see football as an escape, will in many cases accept/ignore the risk.
I follow the college game & you see this dynamic quite often.
White player gets to his 3 rd concussion & he quits, despite a promising continued college career w a shot at the NFL. African American players keep 'living the dream.'
https://sports.vice.com/en_us/articl...s-of-black-men
Of course I could be wrong, a culture that's traded religion for the Sunday gladiators may find its violence fix too hard to let go of & accept the sports PR campaign - aka smokescreen - to lessen the incidence of CTE.
And the Will Smith movie is quite good.
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This is the single biggest problem for the NFL is all this: The talent pipeline starts to dry up, and the quality of the on-field product declines, it starts to become less enjoyable for fans to watch.
That's all they really care about long-term. Player health isn't even a concern for them, outside the realm of the impacts on the future of the business.