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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kitten" data-source="post: 437003" data-attributes="member: 2692"><p>I don't think for one second that there will be no football. These medical revelations will simply change the game as we know it. Football, say 20 or 30 years ago has changed dramatically from what it was then to what it is now. Just look at the change in helmet design for starters. The thing it might cost the sport is fans. There are a lot of people who watch the game for those brutal hits and they may not watch the game if it's reduced to a touch or flag football format. The thing that worries me here is if they want to eliminate head to head contact, they might as well eliminate contact in any form in the same stroke. Head to head contact that is intentional is one thing, but what of the head to head contact that occurs accidentally from the nature of football being football. For example, if you tackle somebody at the waist, who is to say they can't get a concussion if their head slams into the ground? This is  not going to be an easy thing to resolve, but I think it may be a bit more black and white than any of us are going to like. You are either going to have tackling and severely reduce the parameters of what is legal and what is not while still running the risk of accidental injury or you just eliminate tackling from the game altogether.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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