Zero dollars and zero cents.

Am I close?

damage, with less and less referee interference. Injured players are no longer on the Injured List. They are either Healthy or Not Healthy. They are increasingly encouraged and congratulated for "playing through it" rather than seem "weak" or "unhealthy".

This often inhuman behavior is at the behest of the owners, coaches, players, media and fans. The more about money a "sport" becomes, the less value to the human cost. There are those waiting in the wings ... yea leaving their education behind ... to cash in for a chance to be on the Professional Sports Lotto. (The $100 million for research is peanuts ... merely one top player's contract.) And why it takes a decade to figure this out? Smacks of attempts to control the outcome. It's not rocket science.

Sports and War scenarios have many similarities. NFL Vets have a large financial advantage over War Vets, however.

Football trauma lets to CTE and there is no way to calculate how many hits it takes before you get brain damage.

No helmet, no rules and no penalties will stop that.

I've watched thousands of hours of football in my life, and played some in HS. But even though I still love it, I think football will die out for one simple reason: knowing what we do now, no matter how much I like that game, there is no way I am letting a child of mine play it. It simply is not worth it. And if you don't play football in grade school, you generally never will.

As more parents decide this, fewer kids will play the sport, and thus future generations will have fewer fans. Now I know football will probably remain popular for decades to come, and I for one will still be cheering my home team and my Alma mater as grown men try to knock each other's heads off. But due to the obvious head trauma and joint damage it inflicts on players at all ages and skill levels, American football IMO is at the zenith of its popularity and will ultimately die out.

Studies like this will hasten the decline, which means the player's union in some ironic sense is paying to put themselves out of work.

Using the human body as a battering ram has long-term health implications.