In the current issue of the New Yorker, Malcolm Gladwell asks the question: “How different are dogfighting and football?” The essay points out provocatively that recent scientific studies — including an ongoing one being carried out with the football team at UNC — show that American football leads, relatively systematically, to often debilitating long-term brain damage in players. Gladwell doesn’t take what I thought could be his logical next step: putting in a plug for the other, original football, which after all leads to many sprained ankles, ripped ACLs, occasionally broken legs, not to mention broken hearts and a certain kind of madness, but rarely to brain damage.
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