Baseball has steroids and the NFL has concerns for their player’s health more importantly protecting the brain.

The nature of American Football creates extreme stress on the bodies and the head of the people playing it, no secret there.

Then why in the hell are we acting like it is? With the huge news that the late Chris Henry who died in a traffic accident last year had chronic traumatic encephalopathy – a form of degenerative brain damage caused by multiple hits to the head, it has created a since of confusion.

Henry only played in 55 games over 5 years and in that little time his job put enough stress on his brain for him to have CTE, that makes you wonder about 12 year veterans.

The game is viscous and I know that (they know that), I even have a little bit of sympathy for retired players with health problems that stem from playing football but they knew the risks just like an underground miner knows the risks of their occupation, thus need to except the consequences.

The NYT has a blog written by Toni Monkovic “ Head Trauma as a Possible Reason for Bad Behavior in the N.F.L” REALLY!

Whenever we hear about antisocial behavior among football players, we tend to make judgments about their morality, about the perils of celebrity and entitlement, about their upbringings.

I still do. There is no reason to jump to conclusions because Henry is the only active player to have died with trauma-induced brain damaged while still active in the NFL.

Head injuries need to be a cause for concern for life after football not a get out of jail free card. The NFL knows they need to protect their assets but that could take time and rule changes that could affect the play on the field and like everything else that could harm the excitement in their sport thus hurting profit.