Football's Soul Searching

Football head injuries, namely concussions as the liberals call them, have gotten a lot of press lately. I don't understand what all the fuss is about. Thanks to an active childhood I've had more concussions than you can count on one hand. Most were not sports related. One was the result of a catastrophic failure of a homemade rope swing, the other the catastrophic failure of a tree branch. I don't see what Billy Graham has to do with it. Yes, he tried to make sure that Kennedy didn't get elected. That was only to protect the country from the influence of the Pope. And I think that any American can agree with the idea that a decentralization of economic decision making has lead to a shift in the relative importance of various agencies. This is due to the change in focus from national macroeconomic policy measures as the main prescription for all economic ills (be they municipal, regional or national) to a system of regional competition. This competition would force helmet manufacturers to make innovations in crumple-zone technologies that are not single-use like modern bicycle helmets. This is why the government needs to expand subsidies for football. The NEA has tons of money that is obviously not going to the creation of any useful final product. Football teaches our boys skills of great import to our nation, such as physical and mental toughness, 2-technique gap assignments and how to sexually harass a woman other than your wife and avoid divorce. If this country is to rebuild itself into the world powerhouse it once was we need football. All this carrying on about bumps to the noggin ultimately hurts football. Hurting football hurts the squirrel bounding through my yard.