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Insurance and The End of Football

Discussion in 'Football: NFL, College, High School' started by HTM, Jan 17, 2019.

  1. HTM

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    Interesting article which explores the relationship between the insurance industry and football.

    I've found watching the crisis in football play out over the last decade in regards to head injuries really interesting.

    This article kind explored something I hadn't been considering too much.

    Just thought I'd see what other folks thoughts on the subject are.

    http://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id...ing-major-threat-nfl-pop-warner-colleges-espn

    "From the NFL to rec leagues, football is facing a stark, new threat: an evaporating insurance market that is fundamentally altering the economics of the sport, squeezing and even killing off programs faced with higher costs and a scarcity of available coverage, an Outside the Lines investigation has found."
     

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