“If you take a typically active boy or girl, 8, 10, 12 years old, and they want to play football, and you say, ‘You can’t play football,’ it’s not like they’re going to sit on a couch wrapped up in bubble wrap,” he says. “They’re going to be active. They’re going to go out and…
A few years back, Sports Illustrated ran a feature detailing what typically occurs at the bottom of one of those ubiquitous pigskin pile ups, wherein the ball pops loose, 10 guys jump on it, and a skirmish for possession ensues. Hair is apparently pulled. Eyeballs gouged. Eardrums mined. Skin is punctured by marauding mandibles. And…
