I hear more parents telling me they won’t let their kids play until high school,” said Dustin Fink, an Illinois athletic trainer who blogs about brain injuries but adores football. “I think there’ll be a tipping point into people abandoning the sport.”
Others predict an accelerated dwindling of white players, leaving African Americans, currently two-thirds of the NFL roster, increasingly prevalent. Young black men, many from poor backgrounds, risking their lives and health to enrich the white plutocrats who comprise team owners and gambling moguls: a troubling image for the NFL. Richard Kreitner / The Guardian