I find the headline a personal affront.  “We” are all complicit.  Really, even those, like me, who have never watched or attended professional football, have always thought it was a barbaric and exploitative sport that has distorted everything from higher education to urban finance and have been open and vocal in my opinions on this? How about placing the blame first and foremost on the mainly billionaire owners and the politicians they have corrupted to enjoy monopoly economic status, tax subsidies and my expense and a non-regulatory regime that permits them , their managers and coaches to continually promote a brutal approach to game strategy and tactics that inevitably results in  “tragic” (no, calculated and deliberate) acute and chronic injury, debilitation and premature death to thousands of aspiring amateur as well as professional player?  By suggesting “we” are all complicit you become an apologist for those who are actually responsible and culpable.

I find the headline a personal affront.  “We” are all complicit.  Really, even those, like me, who have never watched or attended professional football, have always thought it was a barbaric and exploitative sport that has distorted everything from higher education to urban finance and have been open and vocal in my opinions on this? How about placing the blame first and foremost on the mainly billionaire owners and the politicians they have corrupted to enjoy monopoly economic status, tax subsidies and my expense and a non-regulatory regime that permits them , their managers and coaches to continually promote a brutal approach to game strategy and tactics that inevitably results in  “tragic” (no, calculated and deliberate) acute and chronic injury, debilitation and premature death to thousands of aspiring amateur as well as professional player?  By suggesting “we” are all complicit you become an apologist for those who are actually responsible and culpable.

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