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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I can’t believe that people can still watch professional football knowing what we know now, let alone letting their children play.[/quote]

I agree. Other sports have concussion risks too: rugby, soccer, etc.

Millions of people grow up watching these things. It's like a cult: people are attracted to matches because they offer opportunities to socialize and party with their friends and relatives. The feeling you get when your team wins and you celebrate with your friends can't be replaced with anything else. It's like an addiction. The commercial sports industry exploits those emotions and pays such large salaries to players that every generation, thousands of little athletes dream of making it into the big leagues, and the money, women and fan adulation that comes with it. The small matter of later-life dementia and misery does not weigh in the balance.

- European who grew up around die-hard soccer fans. The crazy is real.

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All supported by the travel sport industry, the NCAA, colleges and unis and of course, parents. All to benefit the people who make all the money from sports.
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