suntimes.com - 9/11/2007
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Week 1 injuries to Bears' Brown, Bills' Everett demonstrate once again how shockingly cruel and dangerous competition is in America's favorite sport September 11, 2007 BY JAY MARIOTTI Mike Brown sobbed. We felt terrible for him. And then pro football carried on, as it always does, chewing up men and spitting them out like gristle from a steak bone. As we hurl ourselves again into the NFL's ...
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... that likely will prevent him from walking again. The injury also comes with life-threatening risks. Jay Mariotti of the Chicago Sun-Times echoes Ryan's sentiments , noting the NFL carries on " as it always does, chewing up men and spitting them out like gristle from a steak bone. As we hurl ourselves again into the NFL's irresistible swirl, the tendency is to shrug off this meat-on-the-hoof reality as a necessary occupational hazard, probably because America is enamored of a sport with unprecedented popularity, profits and power. Well, let's not be so swept up in the fury to ignore the truth. More than ever, the NFL is a savage body-grinder that leaves injury victims in its dust. " The Rocky Mountain News' Dave Krieger points out how one second a player can be engaged in physical contact and the next minute be motionless on the field. ...
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