Mackeyser
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They should make EVERY player of college and professional football sign a paper of understanding that they understand the risks of playing tackle football, so they remember after 20 years of football that they understood the risks and yet still chose to play a kids game for millions of dollars.
My give-shyte-meter is now fully pegged...
I have mixed feelings on this.
One thing I know is that just looking at words and signing a paper doesn't mean anyone understands anything.
Let a former player who's really in the deepshit show what it looks like when it goes really bad.
I mean, if there was a game show where people got a 16lb bowling ball dropped on their head and they were told, "this is gonna hurt and could very easily end in death" that doesn't create an understanding. For very little money, people would sign up.
Actually watching a bowling ball smash some corpse's melon? That might change people's minds. And I acknowledge that some people don't recognize how statistically even the worst of us is a statistical miracle in the scientific sense and value themselves and their lives very cheaply.
I mean if Mike Webster was still alive and could have young collegians just sit in a room with him while his story was conveyed...that would mean a hell of a lot more than some "warning label"... just like meeting someone with super bad emphysema or a hole in their throat or their mandible surgically removed is a hell of a lot more compelling to a young smoker than a warning label on a pack of cigarettes.