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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Heyjoe4" data-source="post: 974293" data-attributes="member: 13032">That's well said.  If anything, you are one of the more "brutally honest" commenters in this forum.  I recently commented on the violence of the sport, the serious, serious injuries it inflicts, and yet I watch it.  I love football.  I was like that with boxing although I don't follow it anymore.  And when I did watch it (a long time ago, like Ali-Frazier), no one seemed concerned about stuff like CTE because know one knew the risks, even though they should have been obvious from the bloodied faces and eyes swollen shut.Does that make ne a hypocrite.  Maybe.  But as I've said the guys who play the sport know the risks.  It's a risk that all pro athletes take to some extent.  I'd like to think I wouldn't take the risk.  But if someone dangled a few million $$$ in front of me when I was 21.....  well I'd probably take it.I also think the league and players should do more to help players down the road with football-related and chronic injuries.</blockquote>

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