Today marks the start of another football season, with the first pro game tonight and high school football practices kicking off everywhere.

Boston University’s CTE (Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, the incurable deterioration of brains through constant rough impacts such as in football) Center has issued another warning this week reporting on a new medical research abstract entitled “Repetitive Head Impacts Induce Neuronal Loss and Neuroinflammation in Young Athletes.” The title speaks for itself.

Why do we continue to spend so much time, effort, resources and love on developing the minds of our young only to send them out like gladiators of old and cheer the permanent erosion of those same minds. Makes no sense.