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NFL football is by far the most popular sport in the US, followed by college football (a state-of-affairs oddly similar to the fact that the world’s largest air force is the US Air Force, followed by the US Navy’s air force). It is impossible to imagine a world in which Americans don’t become obsessed with football for six or so months out of the year. At the same time, in an era where people are aware of the existence of concussions and CTE, watching football still leaves you with the occasional sense that you’re watching something that might not be around forever.
Of course, since the sport is tied to such an overwhelmingly complex number of commercial nodes, anything remotely resembling a ban on football would surely crash the US economy, and that of the globe along with it, so tireles