Every year, it seems the concern about concussions in football gets more popular. Passionate. Polarizing. Please.
Hold the phone, slick. Do you mean to tell me that repeated blows to the noggin by a 200-pound human Rock'em Sock'em Robot at a 4.5, 40-yard dash pace may lead to long-term damage to the brain? Am I on Candid Camera (You may know it as Punk'd)? Yeah okay, Skippy. Almost had me there. I suppose repeated filter-less Camels damage the lungs, or … or maybe repeated rounds of Sam Adams Summer Ale may cause long-term liver damage, wait, wait, wait, here's one. Repeated Ding-Dong usage may lead to Titanic-Butt-Cheek Syndrome.
This article appears in May 10-16, 2012.