They've been doing flag football for the Pro Bowl for a few years now to avoid injury, and the overwhelming feedback is that it is boring.

They either need to make it safer or stop the sport altogether. Or at least stop letting kids play tackle. If an adult wants to make that choice, maybe we let them, but don't let adults make that choice for kids.

> but at the same time, there were lots of fatalities in the early, leather-helmet days of the sport.

This is a good point. We'd need to know if that was because medical science was worse or if it was actually less safe.