Football has created a public health crisis  Football has
created a public health crisis Football has created a public
health crisis  An excerpt from League of Denial: The NFL,
Concussions and the Battle for Truth (Copyright © 2013 by Mark
Fainaru-Wada and Steve Fainaru, published by Crown Archetype, an
imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random
House LLC.)  The national obsession with football, which blew
right through the recession, has turned the NFL into the richest
and most powerful sports league in the nation and a ubiquitous
presence in our lives. ESPN’s research has discovered that for
the first time, more people prefer watching games on television
to attending them. The NFL is broadcast over five
networks—including its own—and brings in annual rights fees of
$5 billion. In the fall of 2012, 23 of the 25 top-rated shows on
TV were NFL games. Once, when the league moved a game from
Sunday to Tuesday because of a blizzard, a spokesman predicted
that the ratings would be unaffected becau