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Is this serious?

But let's not overreact to a handful of tragic injuries and legislate or litigate away a game that means so much to so many Americans. Teddy Roosevelt, the president who "saved" football in an earlier era, warned that abolishing the game would result in turning out "mollycoddles instead of vigorous men." "It is to my mind simple nonsense, a mere confession of weakness," he thundered in 1907, "to desire to abolish a game because tendencies show themselves, or practices grow up, which prove the game ought to be reformed."

TR was right, and the "simple nonsense" hasn't gotten any more persuasive in the intervening century, no matter how many medical studies are cited to support it.
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There's a case to made for football, but Max Boot shouldn't be making it. What a joke of an editorial...
 
Football and mens Basketball pays for everything else. IF Fieldhockey was self supporting it. Would charge 1, ooo dollars a ticket to pay for its expences.
 
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