Stretch wrote:
No helmets or pads works for rugby and whatever those sports they have in Australia are called. Maybe they have had the same issues, I don't know.
That's an invalid argument. The game of football has "evolved" in a sense to what the game is today. The violence and subsequent post-career trauma is institutionalized, and players for decades have only known a style of play that has ever-changing forms of armor. If all of a sudden you eliminated the helmet and reduced pads the style of game, there would be such an onslaught of injuries, or more likely deaths, that the sport would maybe never recover.
If the league at any point in it's existence wants to enforce reduced pads that ultimately would conclude with an altered helmet, it would necessitate many, many years for the new form of the game to be cultivated from high school to high school, etc etc.
As you can imagine the costs of such a change would be crippling to many an athletics department, but the bigger and more obvious point is the cost to attendance. If the NFL will never gamble it's cash cow with such changes, suicides be damned.
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