American football has always been a blood sport. It needs to change or die. Tackle must end.  Flags must come. And they will. Why?  Because human lives are at stake…and with them, a trillion-dollar industry. A century ago, football players were maimed and died in droves.  The college game was a cross between rugby, mixed martial arts and More

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