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Concussion: Making the Game, and Life, Better
In this film Dr. Omalu shares truths that have the potential to improve the quality of life for athletes and the rest of us as well. — This week I attended a screening of Concussion, a new Will Smith...
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From Jousting to Football: The Ideal Man Hasn’t Changed Much Since Medieval...
Embed from Getty Images This comparison between NFL players and Tudor jousters are all too apt, because both pastimes represent the pinnacle of masculinity for their day. ____ By Emma Levitt Anyone...
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Taking A Knee Against Bad Logic
There is an epidemic of bad logic happening in the wake of the American football kneeling controversy. Points are being made and arguments put forth that, as far as I can understand, do not have a...
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American Football and What We Don’t See on the Field
Embed from Getty Images — On any given Sunday, 20 million Americans watch Sunday Night Football—consistently one of the top-rated shows on television. As a lifelong fan, I have tuned in often. In...
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Legendary Father-Son Duo Ronnie Lott and Ryan Nece Stun Crowd
— Ronnie Lott is so adored that people applaud for him the moment he walks into a room. It’s not just his 15 seasons in the NFL and place in the Hall of Fame. It’s also the legend of his toughness and...
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Take the Football Helmet Warning Sticker Challenge
Instead of writing an article about acquired brain injuries this month, I’ve created the Football Helmet Warning Sticker Challenge. The goal of the Football Helmet Warning Sticker Challenge is to...
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American Football in Sweden
— Despite football’s current issues — The National Anthem, Colin Kaepernick, and CTE — it’s still a staple of American culture. According to a recent poll at gallup.com, “Football remains by far...
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Is it Immoral to Watch Football?
Francisco Javier López Frías, Pennsylvania State University and Cesar R. Torres, The College at Brockport, State University of New York For a large swath of Americans, fall means football. But, as in...
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Politics Is Not A Sporting Event
I grew up an avid Notre Dame college football fan. One of my earliest memories was seeing those shining golden helmets and navy blue jerseys running up and down a football field in a cold, Indiana...
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Confessions of a Couch Potato
— I’m a football fanatic. I don’t have a particular allegiance to any one team, I just enjoy the sport. This season I am managing four fantasy football teams. I didn’t intend to have that many, but not...
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Phys-ed by Joel Peckham
Joel Peckham’s “Phys-Ed” is both story and essay about masculinity, boys’ competitions on-field and off-, knocking a man down, identity, fitting in, family, sons & fathers, sex, beer, and rock ’n’...
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Phys-ed by Joel Peckham
“Tell it again,” my son would shout from the back seat, asking for his favorite story, one of the few from my childhood I ever told. Sometimes I would add a detail to fill in a scene or amplify a...
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Phys-ed by Joel Peckham
Most of what I learned about being a man back then came from watching my father, and my sense of inadequacy came from a belief that I could never live up to the man I saw in him. But that wasn’t the...
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Phys-ed by Joel Peckham
Every time I hear another ex-player or father tell me he doesn’t want his son to play football because of concussions, I nod my head, and wonder if that’s the entire story. It’s the story I told my...
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Phys-ed by Joel Peckham
Canton High School Practice Field, 1985 I am a freshman playing left guard on offense for the Sharon Eagles JV squad. Despite a year of intense weightlifting, I can’t be more than a pound over 155,...
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Are You a Coward
— I ran for the sideline to get another helmet, desperate to not let the team down. An image of the fullback’s muscle-knotted arms protecting the football with simultaneous animal grunts and flash of...
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Tommy Edwards: All American Exile
Systemic Denial, Civil Rights, and the New Hate Crime By Tommy Edwards America the Beautiful. The American culture is infatuated with the red white and blue shield of the NFL which causes red-blooded...
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I’m Just a Bill
Four score and seven years ago…actually, 26 years ago, the Buffalo Bills lost their last Super Bowl game. I say last, because prior to that 1993 defeat to the Dallas Cowboys, the Bills lost the three...
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The Modern QB
— To analyze the development of the modern quarterback we have to start with Michael Vick. Without trying to be, he was the experiment. The first true run first quarterback with such dynamic skills on...
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The Con Job Perpetrated by the NFL
According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another. Marcus Tullius Cicero Several weeks ago, I ran a letter from a column...
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