What mike said about brain injury liability is spot on. Funny thing is the left was all over criticizing everything about football. The brain injury stuff is real and scary- and trying to officiate against hard hits is like reading playboy for the articles.
Now the left finally found something about football to like - desecration of the flag. There is absolutely nothing curative about desecrating the flag, not when those effing never mind did it 40 years ago, and not now. The gesture is planned to taunt and infuriate freedom loving Americans - and it sure as hell infuriates me. I consider the great American philosopher,mighty Merle Haggard, said it best: "when you're running down my country hoss, you're walking on the fightin side of me." I refuse to ever watch the NFL, and inclined to not need anything an NFL sponsor supplies. Frankly, I'm much more offended by desecrating the flag than any racial attack (and I've heard them all), so why must I suffer the intended insult of flag desecration without the desecrates having to hear the N word? Because I'm not a whining crybaby.