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Like Mike: Why It’s Time The NFL Treats Its Players Better
On July - 28 - 2009
You’ve got anger? That’s good. You’ve got aggression? That’s better.
Playing football at its highest level requires more than being able to jump like a grasshopper and run like a gazelle. It requires that you have an almost sadistic love of pain. You must be prepared to destroy yourself physically, mentally and emotionally every day.
Bone-crushing hits, broken limbs, bodies strewn across a bloodied field: The image of a medieval battle field where men ruthlessly chopped each other to bits with clubs, swords and axes or simply integral parts of the fabric of a game that has quickly become America’s favorite sport?
Football ...