The Reclassification of Football

Part 1: The NFL   By Andrew M. Blecher MD   Collision sports are full-contact sports with a greater than average risk of injury. They include sports such as football, rugby, ice-hockey, mixed-martial arts and boxing. But there is something different about the last two. In the professional sports of MMA and boxing the intent is to hurt your opponent. In fact the best outcome would be to knock-out your opponent. Since a knockout is a concussion, the intent of the sport is therefore to ca