How different are dogfighting and football?

.......I had never passed out like that before, and I started becoming really paranoid. I went into a panic. ....... I started to lose control. My limbs were shaking, and I couldn’t speak. I was conscious, but I couldn’t speak the words I wanted to say.”
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Posted by Patricia Blochowiak - via Dan Gillmor, Give Me Something To Read, New Yorker

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Patricia Blochowiak
4.8
by Patricia Blochowiak - Oct. 14, 2009

Factual story about the research on serious brain trauma associated with football and boxing. Presents convincing, but preliminary, research about problems with even very young players.

I have considered football barbaric because of the essential trauma involved and because of the lifelong musculoskeletal problems associated with even high school football. This evidence of severe brain dysfunction, shown by Dr. Ann McKee, who attended some of the same pre-med courses at the University of Wisconsin in the 70's as I did, is even more convincing.

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