In a few weeks, we shall be watching the start of football pre-season, or perhaps not. Currently there are several thousand lawsuits lining up by players wanting to sue the NFL - National Football League. It seems that over their careers they have sustained injures due to the violence of the sport and now they want compensation. Now it seems to me that if you elect to join a game where large 300 pound men throw themselves at you and in particular your head, you are likely to get hurt. Surely everyone gets that, don't they?
It appears not, as now we are going to tie up the lawcourts with cases where mind dumbed robots are going to say that if a warning label had been placed on their helmets they wouldn't have used their heads as weapons. Ah me! Perhaps we could take the helmets and the padding away and see how hard they hit each other then. I don't think you get the same injuries in Rugby, but in that game if you don't want to be hit you best get rid of the ball quickly then you're safe - or at least supposed to be.
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