Miami Dolphins head coach Mike McDaniel talks to quarterback Tua Tagovailoa (1) as he leaves the game after suffering a concussion during the second half of an NFL football game against the Buffalo Bills on Sept. 12, 2024, in Miami Gardens, Fla.
That’s why the independent actions of the U.S. Fed and chair Jerome Powell — from necessary rate hikes that disregarded the political hits to President Biden, to a necessary rate cut that disregards the political howls of former President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump — is such a necessary example.
A positive export.
But I can’t say the same thing for football.
I was once one of the biggest football fans you’d ever meet — until convincing evidence of the sport’s brain injury reality smacked me like one of the bell-ringing helmet-to-helmet hits I remember taking as a high school player.
Like so many folks, I’ve come to realize that football, like boxing and its toxic mutation MMA, is an American game we probably should not be playing or promoting. The fact that we as a society this week are huddled around the cave fire debating whether a young man — in this case Tagovailoa — should continue flirting with long-term cognitive damage only deepens that concern.
And I’m just as worried that in Latin American countries like Brazil and Mexico, where not just football spectating but participating is gaining popularity, they’re relatively oblivious to the medical truth that no helmet in the world is going to protect their young men’s midbrains from that kind of trauma.
A kind of trauma that shouldn’t be exported.
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