Re:ESPN Football Analyst Walks Away, Disturbed by Brain Trau...
by JumpCrisscross on Thursday August 31, 2017 @03:53PM
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> Football is America's gladiator sport
The analogy goes deeper. We exempt the NFL from antitrust law [1]. We let it keep its feedstock players, i.e. college athletes, people who come from disproportionately low-income backgrounds, so poorly they go hungry [2]. For many, a sports scholarship seems like the only chance they have at a better life.
A minority reach semi-stardom, with a vanishing fraction of those achieving fame and wealth. But for all, the cost society charges is literally their minds.
The analogy goes deeper. We exempt the NFL from antitrust law [1]. We let it keep its feedstock players, i.e. college athletes, people who come from disproportionately low-income backgrounds, so poorly they go hungry [2]. For many, a sports scholarship seems like the only chance they have at a better life.
A minority reach semi-stardom, with a vanishing fraction of those achieving fame and wealth. But for all, the cost society charges is literally their minds.
[1] https://sportslaw.uslegal.com/antitrust-and-labor-law-issues...
[2] http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/04/21/304196202/hun...