{Football and Dogfighting???}

I see where Malcolm Gladwell is coming from in his article, "Offensive Play," but I do think that some of the cases mentioned are very extreme. While football leagues can do a better job of monitoring the health of their players and even urging the players to retire if they have had too much brain damage, every sport has it's risks and these players know what they are getting into when playing football.  I do not think that isolating football only examining one sport is fair, because every sport has potential to harm athletes' health.  Some of the issues of depression among NFL players described in the article are not proven to be caused from football, so I did not think those points were valid arguments.  Football has valuable strategy tactics and is not morally degrading like dog-fighting. Dog fighting is rooted in violence and hatred while football is based on skill and strategy and ultimately, dog fighting and football are not even comparable.