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Reality Check: Why are Professional Sports so Dangerous?

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We hear a lot about the "dangers" of steroids. Yet what is it that really makes sports like football so dangerous? It's the contact, which leads to concussions. In football, a player will receive multiple concussions each year.Why then don't we hear about the dangerous of concussions? It's because concussions are at the very nature of the game. The only way to reduce the dangers of football would be to ban, it or change the rules so that football would be less dangerous.Now, it could be that steroids make football more dangerous, because it makes the athletes stronger - and thus more able to give concussions. Even without steroids, however, football would be brain-damage inducing.If we really cared about the dangers of football, we'd outlaw football...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on June 07, 2009 (boomark / email).

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