Just how dangerous is tackle football?

I saw a fascinating piece on Frontline this weekend called League of Denial:The NFL's Concussion Crisis.  The piece covers brain injuries in the NFL and what appears to be a purposeful effort by the NFL to dismiss alarming evidence that football players are sustaining long term injuries from hard hits and concussions.  I must say, [...]

Unfortunately, it is very much the American way.

I ran across an old news article from 2012 about the concussion lawsuit that over 300 former football players  brought against the NFL, the teams, and the helmet manufacturer Riddell in the Huffington Post the other day.  The article was focused on Tony Dorsett. In the article Dorsett was quoted as saying: "Yeah, I understand [...]