Enjoyment from watching others get hurt, and sociopathy

[Rev. Rye]

But what about high school and college players?  Many are minors who need parental permission to play.  The rest are treated as serfs by the colleges which claim they are "students" in spite of college football being a multi-billion/year industry?  Few make the pros.  They and/or their parents are simply risking their heads for nothing.

What will happen is that eventually a school district will be sued by some kid who has suffered injury.  They will lose because there is simply too much scientific evidence out there.
When that happens the insurance companies will either stop providing liability insurance for scholastic sports or they will jack the premiums up to the point where the schools cannot afford it.  In either case, pro football's unpaid minor league system will begin to dry up.

I’m not sure about whether they’d have that much of a case. Not because there isn’t a preponderance of evidence that football causes brain injury, but because they don’t seem to have been in much of a position to do anything about it (the coverups seemed to be largely at the NFL level and thus the school districts were likely to be in the dark, and by the time they found out, it was public knowledge). That and they probably don’t have that much money.