and how everyone playing the game was unknowingly risking brain damage. my high school football coach didn't like the piece very much. he thought it indicated that maybe i was not willing to give 110%. which i wasn't. with my head anyway. which is whyรง i was a wide receiver and never had to hit anyone. during this past football season, the "the new york times" caught up with my high school newspaper many decades later and ran the only pulitzer award winning series i have seen in the sports section about the inadequacy of football helmets and the proven tragedy of brain damage that haunts the nfl. too many good men, vibrant men ruined by playing a game they loved. not funny. juiced up millionaires? bill maher said it once. i said it four times.