IMO, it's is odd that football is on the way to the dust bin of history why

[CK_John]

does DT45 pick a fight with the last employees who hang on to a job that will cause them a life of hurt.

[Not Ruth]

1. The NFL will need to eliminate tackles, then they will be fine with CTE

[Initech]

2. Kaepernick made Fox News' enemies list.

And once you're on that list, you're on it for life. There's no erasing from that list. And Trump watches way too much Fox News for his own good. So that's pretty much a toxic mix.

[BeyondGeography]

3. He actually threw them a life jacket

Aaron Hernandez' CTE diagnosis has been blown off the radar. Instead of a discussion of how many 27-year-olds out there are dealing with similar symptoms Trump granted the league victim status.

[exboyfil]

5. Since Hernandez only spent 3 years

in the NFl, we know most of the damage must have occurred during the 12 to 14 years of organized football prior to entering the NFL.

The families of his victim(s) will have interesting lawsuits coming up. I think the daughter is out of luck. Hernandez opted into the settlement, and unless attorneys can show failure to disclose, the NFL is off the hook. The NCAA on the other hand....

[Trust Buster]

4. The NFL is the most popular sport in america by a long shot. There isn't even a close second.

[BannonsLiver]

6. The OP doesn't realize they will be long gone before their fantasy comes to fruition.

It really is just another anti sports pipe dream. Dime a dozen around here.

[BeyondGeography]

7. You don't have to be anti-sports to recognize the disaster that is American football

I love sports, including the NFL for many years. But the game is hazardous to your health. When even Mike Ditka says he wouldn't recommend it to kids, its continued popularity is nothing to be smug about.

[MousePlayingDaffodil]

8. Drinking to excess is hazardous to one's health as well . . .

. . . but I don't see where its popularity is really diminishing.

Demographic changes in the population, more so than the inherent dangers of the game itself, will tell the tale, it seems to me, whether tackle football diminishes in popularity.

[BeyondGeography]

13. The issue isn't whether the game deserves to be popular

Smoking was popular too, and anyone who lit up after a good meal or whatever your pleasure was didn't need an explanation on that. But once its dangers were apparent there was a significant public health education effort to downsize it. Of course, we were a better country then, and football only hurts those who play it while free riders (from a brain-damage standpoint) in the stands and on their asses in bars and living rooms derive pleasure from it and we wouldn't want to upset them, would we?

[Trust Buster]

11. Smoking is hazardous to your health. So is drinking, riding a bike w/o a helmet, scaling the side

Of a cliff and owning a handgun. I don't want either you or the government dictating your own preferences onto me thank you.

[BeyondGeography]

14. If watching young men inflict brain damage on each other is exciting to you

That's your full right, correct.

[Trust Buster]

15. A bit dramatic don't you think ? You would have to rid the world with every sport if that were the

Case. Racing, boxing, tight rope walking, cliff climbing, baseball, basketball and on and on. I don't portend to think I have the right to dictate to others.

[BeyondGeography]

16. Me neither

People should be fully acquainted with the risks though, and vested interests shouldn't be able to buy their way out of the problem of CTE. I think those are progressive notions.

The OP is wrong about where the game is headed, so the fans shouldn't worry their CTE-free heads none. But, make no mistake, the ongoing worship of American football in the face of non-refutable scientific evidence of its destructiveness will be a telling part of the tale of how this country lost its mind in the 21st century.

[Trust Buster]

17. The market will solve this problem. If NASA can find a way to affix foam to rocket boosters that

Withstand incredible G forces, then a helmet can be covered to significantly cut down on brain trauma IMO. Advancements are coming. Too much money at stake.

[BeyondGeography]

19. Let's hope so n/t

[Trust Buster]

9. Bingo

[Weekend Warrior]

10. "football is on the way to the dust bin of history"

I am so impressed by all of the absolute statements floating around.

[Trust Buster]

12. The poster probably never had an interest in football to begin with. Self determination is my motto

[WinkyDink]

20. Bwahahahahaha! Yeah, right after rugby, boxing, and the WWE!

[Old Vet]

22. The NY giants have a ten year waiting list for lower level season tickets........

Actually Green bay is wayyyy more of a wait, The NFL is not going anywhere.

[Weekend Warrior]

23. Fantasy football alone is estimated as a 7 billion dollar industry...

With almost sixty million people taking part.

[grossproffit]

18. Where on earth did you get the idea from?

[kcr]

21. I'll answer.

The drop in television ratings, for one. Fewer kids in high school and lower grades are playing the sport, which means a smaller talent pool to draw from in the future. The second one will really hurt in the long run. But, given those factors, it's not looking good longterm for American Football. We've seen its heyday come and it appears to be going.