NFL Must Respond to Public Pressure on Brain Injuries by Changing the Game

June 3, 2014   ·   Ty Schalter   ·   Jump to comments

When the president of the United States convenes a summit to discuss the threat your sport poses to American youth, you need to do something about it.
When there's no evidence that what you've been doing about it will work, you have a lot of work to do.
That's the position the NFL is in.
Professional football is a dangerous game; its fans—parents and kids alike—love the speed and violence of the gridiron. Yet parents increasingly don't want their kids subject to the same violence that makes them jump out of their seat and holler on Sunday afternoons.
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has used the phrase "grow the game" countless times during his tenure (a Google search for his name and the exact phrase returned about 94,600 results). Between a four-day-a-week television slate, playoff expansion, an 18-game regular season, at least one team in Los Angeles and an international team, Goodell has relentlessly pushed for more NFL product to sell.
...

Read Complete Article at Bleacher Report - NFL
Article is property of BleacherReport.com