http://www.thenation.com/article/158...ch-empire-bowl
One of the four reasons given:
"...There is no question that violence stirs fan blood. Football players know this; they have been remarkably hostile to attempts to soften the mayhem, especially those ringing helmet-to-helmet shots, an offspring of the modern technique learned in PeeWee leagues of “putting a hat on him” [[which means tackling headfirst rather than the more traditional style of wrapping one’s arms around the ball carrier’s legs and dragging him down). Most pro football players seem to be on the side of the hats. A more careful game won’t be football anymore, they say. It won’t be the American game—even for some of the doctors watching who treat the “epidemic of concussions blazing through schoolboy football.”
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