[Football has] become the major theater of American masculine crackup…
[It] would be really good, it would be a really good thing, if the NFL moved its boundaries in such a way as to show some minimal respect for mental health.
… [W]hen a player says he needs time off for mental reasons — … in a sport with a suicide problem — it shouldn’t spark a national conversation on whether he’s soft.
You don’t think it’s true of college too? Read this post, and click on all the links.
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UD thanks Timothy.
November 8th, 2013 at 6:25PM
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/10/magazine/the-coach-who-exploded.html?hp