Author Malcolm Gladwell Claims Football Will Become 'Ghettoized' Because of Head Trauma Risks

Best-selling author of The Tipping Point and Outliers;, Malcolm Gladwell claims that football will become "ghettoized" because of the risks of head injuries.

Gladwell is interviewed in the new film "United States of Football" by Sean Pamphilon, set to be released on August 23. In it, the issue of head traume from youth football to the NFL is documented. which documents the head trauma issue from youth football to the NFL.

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Gladwell claims, "we will go to a middle position where we will disclose the risks and essentially dare people to play ...That's what the Army does. So we leave the Army for kids who have other options, for whom the risks are acceptable.... That's what football is going to become. It's going to become the Army. That's a very, very different situation. That's a ghettoized sport, not a mainstream American sport."

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