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 why 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. if you re going to describe football players, four times, elemental creativity demands you
me to defend good socialism and attack bad socialism. but both should be done with grace. something that eluded me monday night. i was so taken with the bill maher joke that i quoted it in my first sentence. he calls professional football, quote, the spectacle of juiced up millionaires getting brain damage. i went onto use the phrase juiced up millionaires three more times and squeezed in the brain damage bit once more at the end. bill, the professional comedian said it once. me, trying to be the wise guy, i pushed it way past the point of, i don t know, human decency. brain damage? very funny. the only article i can remember writing for my high school newspaper that required actual reporting was about the inadequacy of football helmets,
hallway. you can see there s a lot of furniture there that still has to go into some of the offices. a lot of the staffers here with incoming members, their e-mail addresses weren t even working until yesterday, brooke. let s talk about the higher-ups and talk about the leaders because they re gearing up having their pen in pad and putting out messages. today i went to the pen in pad for congressman eric cantor. he s going to be as of tomorrow the majority leader in the house of representatives. check it out. standing room only. that s just one section of the room there. it was huge and bustling. then i also want to show you something else that i tweeted out. this is something that steny who iier. you see those football helmets? one is a donkey. one is an he wielephant. this is really the hottest particular in town, which is going to be watching what goes
safety of football helmets. the new football season is about to get under way on so many different levels. could new data made public by the nfl actually put young athletes at risk? we ll talk with a neurologist who advises the league on head and neck injuries. he says yes. 6 for $69.99, that s all it s good for phone calls. with sprint, for the same price, you get unlimited text, unlimited web and unlimited calling to every mobile phone in america. now that s more like it. [ male announcer ] get our $69.99 plan and experience america s most improved customer satisfaction. only from sprint. deaf, hard-of-hearing and people with speech disabilities access www.sprintrelay.com.
they also can be helmet to other body part or helmet to the turf itself. but the skull doesn t necessarily need to fracture, there doesn t need to be a bleed, some of these other things that these helmets are protective of. that s absolutely correct. in fact, not commonly uncommonly, but it actually occurs where the blow may not even be to the head and the head is just simply whiplashed back and forth violently enough to produce concussive forces. so across the country, dr. cantu, hundreds of thousands of parents are getting their kids geared up for a new football season. what are they to take away from this new information and what you re saying? well, i think what we do know is that new football helmets test to a higher standard than older football helmets. helmets degrade over time so i would be encouraging parents, if they have any say in it, to have a new helmet on their child. but in terms of which helmet is better than another helmet, we