Malcolm Gladwell: Football Will Become 'Ghettoized'
Posted Sep 3, 2013
Playing football is about as safe as running head-first into a concrete wall, an increasing amount of research finds — and pop-science author Malcolm Gladwell isn't afraid to say it. The New Yorker staffer has been critical of the sport in the past, earning the ire of conservatives for whom concussions and brain lesions are just part of being a real American.
(The Atlantic)
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