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Life of the Mind, USA

[F]ootball is built on large men running into each other at great speed. That creates dramatic moments — and creates constant risk of head injuries, too. And football wouldn’t be football without it.

Margaret Soltan, November 16, 2015 5:27AM
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3 Responses to “Life of the Mind, USA”

  1. charlie Says:

    It’s not just large men who are dying, high school boys are as well. According to the link, eleven have died since the opening of football season.

    bigstory.ap.org/article/f8eb2823efe440719cb73792174c6f16/…

    It’s all about bigger, stronger, faster. Not smaller, weaker, slower. Expect more carnage…

  2. Conservative English PhD Says:

    I recall when I was in high school. Some kid in another state died doing the pole vault, so they cancelled pole vault as an event for two years.

    The track and field coach was livid; I recall him saying “around a dozen kids in the USA will die this year in football, and no one cares. One kid in a dozen years dies in pole vault and the administrators lose their minds.”

    But pole vault doesn’t have the excitement of potential death, so it’s a shocker when it happens; it’s actually somewhat expected (somewhere in the back of the mind) as a possibility in football (just no one will admit it).

  3. Margaret Soltan Says:

    Conservative English Phd: Absolutely. And throw in all the brain injury in football too. The crucial difference is the mammoth cultural centrality of football in this country.

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