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Hello, welcome to factually.

I'm your host, Adam Conover, and, look look we know that playing football is not great for your

health right but most of us don't realize what the real health danger really is.

See if like most Americans you believe that real health danger really is.

See, if like most Americans you believe that concussions are the big problem in the

NFL, well, that it might appear like the league is doing a good job of taking that problem

seriously. This year the NFL self reported that

concussions went down by 23% and the 2018 season and part of the reason for

that is that they've tweaked the game in order to reduce that specific injury.

They've given players better helmets and, you know, instead of banging their heads together

at 300 miles per hour, players are now encouraged to ram the rest of their massive meat together instead.

Improvement, right?

Well, unfortunately, those measures completely miss the real problem, because the real problem isn't concussions at all.

The truth is that we could completely eliminate concussions from football and the players would

still come away with brain injuries bad enough to destroy their lives.

See, we now know that it's not just the big bell ringers that cause lasting damage to the brain,

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