Thread: Football Bob Costas on the future of football: 'This game destroys people's brains'
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Old 11-10-2017, 11:17 AM   #119
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No, there isn’t.

Players in those days weren’t all amazing athletes.

The league wasn’t filled with 6’6, 275 pound guys running 4.7 40’s.

The NFL would become so bloody and so gruesome without helmets that they’d lose all of their advertisers in one week.
I don't want the game to lose what it's about but I do understand players retiring early to avoid the worst.

What I wonder is why players with less protection in the first 80 years of the NFL/AFC clearly suffered worse but have less CTE issues.
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