Especially launching into the ball carrier's helmet. It s legal, but it should not be.

I think you are referring to the Kelce hit.

Are players ejected for that yet?

I've also thought that, in the pros AND the college game, there should be long-term penalties if a hit knocks an offensive player out of the game, since those hits usually affect the team which loses those players for the rest of the season.

I've thought the team inflicting such a hit should forfeit the game in which the hit was inflicted, and that compensatory points should be awarded to the team whose player was hit and the teams the offending team plays as long as the player is knocked out.

The only way to make this stop is for their to be real consequences, so that depriving an opposing team of crucial offensive players is never seen as effective long-term strategy.

Speed kills
After that hitting big gets you noticed and shows you'll do anything to WIN

Take kids who grew up in that and then put them in playoff football. Win or go home. Consequences and fines/suspensions be damned.

Not defending it. It's going to take a lot of effort to change that and it has to start at all levels.

Jumbotron screens at live games and hi-def on TV really made me see the violence. That, and all the brain injuries coming to light and the off-the-field violence

3 older brothers, a mother, and a father that faithfully watched the Badgers, and the Green Bay Packers my whole life, but am getting very, very close to giving it up.

endlessly, repeatedly, from as many possible angles.

Given what he's said about "beautiful hits" being a crucial part of the game, I suspect MR. T___p watched those replays with a visible bulge in his pants.

I always figured most folks watched hoping to see their team play well, score frequently and win the game.

see the results of a traffic accident or watch NASCAR?

With 30 second ads in front of each one $$$$
http://www.espn.com/

Because it lets people *think* they are tough and can *take it* - by watching it - all in the comfort of their home.
The cost is your empathy. You have to give it up in order to be tough....

50 guys play for both teams. 3 get nicked up every game. One guy gets creamed and gets hurt and that's news!
I think that's why!
All the bloodlust motives seem way overstated!