President Barack Obama is a proclaimed football lover but he thinks the sport should “probably change gradually” so that there are fewer concussions, especially at the college level.
Obama said in an interview with The New Republic magazine:
“I’m a big football fan, but I have to tell you if I had a son, I’d have to think long and hard before I let him play football,”
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Obama was asked how he squares his love of the game with rising awareness of the impact of repeated head injuries on players. He replied:
“I think that those of us who love the sport are going to have to wrestle with the fact that it will probably change gradually to try to reduce some of the violence,”
He continues:
“In some cases, that may make it a little bit less exciting, but it will be a whole lot better for the players, and those of us who are fans maybe won’t have to examine our consciences quite as much,”
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Right on!
Referring to the National Collegiate Athletic Association, which runs college sports, he says:
“You read some of these stories about college players who undergo some of these same problems with concussions and so forth and then have nothing to fall back on. That’s something that I’d like to see the NCAA think about,”
POTUS makes some good points.
What do you guys think?
SOURCE: Reuters
