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Message: [QUOTE="Kolumbo, post: 4486164, member: 4613"] I agree with this. We obsess about conference realignment and it's all about football but eventually I think the sport will change drastically. The hardest legal hits just aren't fun to watch. If you step back and think about it, the game requires players to wear helmets. Why? Because your opponent is wearing a helmet. They can penalize targeting but it will always happen because when you tackle, your head with the helmet is the first thing to enter the picture. "Isn't our protective equipment enough?" No, it isn't. Not when big strong fast players are crashing into each other, intentionally. A shoulder with any kind of padding will be enough to cause this kind of tragedy unless they are all wearing iron man armor, but even then, the brain would still get rattled. The nature of the game is just too violent for the human body. As other people have stated, it's suprising we don't see more players carried off, but we do know that the long term damage to these players is severe. [/QUOTE]