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[QUOTE="Alydar, post: 4389951, member: 730"]
Football is king of hill right now and has been for several decades but all good things end. The most attended sport until the 70's was horse racing and boxing was king on TV in the 50's.  
     I agree that the health threat is real. It involves a lot more than just CTE. I remember watching a show about Jim Otto, an all-time lineman who at 55 could barely walk due to the pounding his spine took. But the stats used above are somewhat misleading. The 30% annual increase isn't as onerous as it seems.  If 1 in a million in the general population contract CTE then a 30% increase makes a footballer's chances 1.3 in a million, not a 30% chance as some could conclude. 1.3 in a million or a thousand will not stop players showing the physicality and skill set to play football at a high level from pursuing careers. I'm sure that free-climbing 500 ft sheer rock walls has inherent risk and multiple deaths every year. My mother wouldn't let me go out for football in the 60's and since there was zero chance of me playing in college it was probably a wise decision. If I had been 6'4 and 250 (huge in the 60's) that decision may have been different.
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