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TIME Sportswriter Agonizes Before Super Bowl: Maybe We Shouldn’t Let Our Kids Watch Football

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TIME Sportswriter Agonizes Before Super Bowl: Maybe We Shouldn’t Let Our Kids Watch Football
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A Time Magazine senior writer who covers sports has written an op-ed in which he decries the idea of parents letting their children watch football, declaring current knowledge of the possibility of brain damage suffered by players should preclude kids from watching the sport.

Sean Gregory writes of the 1980s and early 1990s, when he was growing up, “ … those were more innocent days. Back then, football fans were unaware of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), the neurodegenerative disease associated with football brain trauma.”

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