“I would not let my son play pro football,” [President Obama remarked]… “At this point, there’s a little bit of caveat emptor,” he went on. “[The players], they know what they’re doing. They know what they’re buying into. It is no longer a secret. It’s sort of the feeling I have about smokers, you know?”
True, the question was not about college football. But UD wonders: Since on many campuses college football is indistinguishable from pro, wouldn’t a person object to that as well? You’re getting just as much brain tissue kicked out at the University of Georgia.
January 19th, 2014 at 3:59PM
not sure that with all that education and damage they actually do “know”…
January 20th, 2014 at 11:28AM
At UGA, of course, the brain damage incident to football is not necessarily limited to those on the field….