Welcome to the Peter King Podcast. Welcome to a podcast unlike I've done before. This is a

podcast about the helmet and the alarm bells about the future of football and what the

NFL and the players union are doing about that future.

In this podcast you'll hear from top NFL officials about the 60 million dollars they're spending

to address head trauma on players. You'll hear from players some of whom like

Russell Wilson are investors in a unique helmet company

in Seattle called Vices.

You'll hear from players who had to be forced out of long-held and comfortable helmets into new ones with greater technology.

You'll hear from the brain behind Vices and how it's changing the landscape of helmets and

of helmet technology.

You'll go with me into a helmet safety testing lab in Charlottesville, Virginia, which sort of reminded

me of those crash test dummy commercials you've seen from carmakers.

And you'll draw conclusions from the words of all these people about the future of football

and whether there is a future for football.

First, though, I'm going to ask you to go back three years.

Football was on fire.

The landscape of football in 2016 was bleak. The movie Concussion came to big screens across

the country with Will Smith playing the neuropathologist who discovered chronic traumatic

encephalopathy, that's CTE, in former players.

The movie shook America.

A human being will get concussed at 60 geez, a common head-to-head contact on a football field?

100 geez. God did not intend for us to play football.

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