re: Former UCLA and NFL player losing it, walks through glass door

I would have tested him for drugs first. He and his wife are NOT medical experts. They cannot diagnose, yet this unqualified diagnosis is what this reporter is basing this story on. Lack of credibility, lack of proper research. That is why this is a slanted, erroneous fake newspiece.

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the dangers are now 100% known. players, on the whole, obviously don't care

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Meh. It's hard to convince kids about stuff like this.

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* Does a person who works with Gators get surprised when a Gator one day bites their hand off?

* Should we be shocked if a cook cuts their finger off when cooking?

* Divers who weld know the dangers of underwater welding, but they still go down because the money is worth the risk for some.

* Police might get shot, Firemen might burn, NASCAR driver might crash and die, Vegas act might fall to their death, and many other dangerous jobs to be had.

Football players know its a blood-sport and all this regret after rolling the dice for the money, women, and glory makes it tougher to feel for their decision.

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The problem with your logic is that those other jobs don't create massive, long-term hidden health problems like early-onset dementia. To make your analogy work, people would have to be complaining about the risk of, say, quadraplegia to a football player. And that's how the danger of it used to be talked about - a one-time, devastating outlier. But please do not misconstrue CTE as being that. It isn't. Boxing is the other sport with CTE. And as you've seen, there's been a significant migration to MMA - perhaps more outwardly bloody, but way way WAY lower risk of CTE.

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It's going to have to be done through legislation or good intentions on the part of a multi-billion dollar company the NFL.

Because as long as they pay millions of dollars to get knocked in the head, athletes who grow up in difficult conditions will continue to see this as their way out.

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That's my prediction: it essentially becomes a blood sport to escape poverty for blacks and Mexicans. Little Johnny's soccer mom is no longer letting him play. The drop off in white youth participation has been extreme already. It's only going to go that direction.