Here recently Bo Jackson has felt the need to throw his voice into the public square regarding the game of football. Going as for as being quoted last week saying:
The element of the game that people love so much (the physicality) is the exact thing that will be taken out of the game the further down the road of "safety" we go (with rule changes). Assuming we continue down the road of "rule changing" to make the game safer. How do you see the sport of football evolving or even surviving in our society over the next 20, 30, 40 years from now?
It seems our society is heading toward a fork in the road about the game of football. More and more people who played the game on a professional level are coming out and making public statements that if they had it to do over again they wouldn't play. In many parts of the country youth league football is having less participation or just outright dying. Our local news two years ago ran a story about YMCA's in east Texas completely doing away with their tackle football program."If I knew back then what I know now," Jackson told USA Today Sports, "I would have never played football. Never. I wish I had known about all of those head injuries, but no one knew that. And the people that did know that, they wouldn't tell anybody."
The element of the game that people love so much (the physicality) is the exact thing that will be taken out of the game the further down the road of "safety" we go (with rule changes). Assuming we continue down the road of "rule changing" to make the game safer. How do you see the sport of football evolving or even surviving in our society over the next 20, 30, 40 years from now?