When Mohamed Ali developed Parkinsons desease, I stopped following the sport of boxing. It was just too difficult to reconcile my interest and support for a sport that devastated so many lives. Now I am making the same decision about the NFL. The joy of watching my "niners" is more than offset by the tragedy of seeing so many young men destroyed by a brutal uncaring system. The lucky ones will have lives of pain due to hip, knee, and other bodily injury. The unlucky ones will suffer from headaches, depression, suicide, violent rage, and other symptoms of repeated violent collisions. Add to that the brutal domestic violence exhibited by some players and the whole thing becomes untenable. Oh yes, I failed to mention Dan Snyder. The owner of the Washington Unmentionables. The poster child for arrogant elitist rich idiots; he doesn't care if he degrades an entire race of people just to promote his vanity business. Dan Snyder, calls his team by the name given to the bloody skins produced for payment by early american white human bounty hunters.
And you know what? It turns out there are plenty of fun things to do on a Sunday besides watching beer commercials