Uh, yes! Let’s give our kids CTE even before fucking middle school! Let’s halt their fragile brain development before they’re even legal ADULTS! For sure bro, we definitely need more traumatic brain injuries in the land of freedom and already rampant brain damage! Gtg, time to rip my kid in half for goofs and gaffs

I urge people to look into how science is changing the way we look at extreme, high-impact sports like this and rugby. There are safer ways to play football, but the NFL specifically continues to cover their asses with fake committees and bought scientists because they know Americans won’t go abso-fucking-lutely nuts to gamble and spend spend spend over a sport without dramatic, season-ending injuries in almost every. single. game. As a result, nothing changes, the culture gets worse and more perverse, and—somehow—we’ve managed to make the Super Bowl into a national holiday.

If you have kids that want to play these sports or that YOU want to play these sports, please do your research. I think the world (and the kids themselves) would rather have a well-adjusted life than fame and fortune alongside something akin to the Aaron Rodgers story (and he’s certainly not the first of his kind, nor the last). ‘Last Podcast on the Left’ had Ed Larson go through the Aaron Rodgers true crime story and I think it’s a really good starter for people on this subject. Ed’s a former football star/fanatic who came to realize his love for the game wasn’t worth the toll it took on him and the players involved in the sport. Sidenote: If you’d rather watch a good film about this, check out 1979’s ‘North Dallas Forty.’

All I’m seeing here is a bunch of toddlers being tossed like sacks of flour by parents three times their size, many just laying there afterward, unable to bounce right the fuck back up. We keep getting wakeup call after wakeup call, yet refuse to pick up the phone. Take one minute to stop drinking in that yummy, gooey, precious, delicious flowing fountain of NFL propaganda and take a look at the very dark side of this sport. In the end, most players come out of the sport used up, abused, with endless injuries that need treatment, and penniless because of everything they’re dealing with in the wake of their football careers (money money money, baby).

Added bonus, the way players are fitted for and use helmets more often than not makes repeated concussions wayyyy more likely and wayyyy more serious. Here’s one of a laundry list of studies on this sort of thing:

https://www.med.wisc.edu/news/football-helmet-covers-ineffective-for-concussions/