Tim Cain plays a researcher who stresses the damaging effects of football on the brain. (Credit: Gerry Goodstein)
Many sports fans would argue that football is America’s new pastime. Some college football stadiums hold over 100,000 fans, the Super Bowl attracts a television audience of about a third of the nation, and media coverage of the National Football League is overwhelming. With such widespread popularity it’s surprising that a degree of uncertainty surrounds the future of the sport that so many live and die for. However, it is the fact that football players may literally die because of their participation that the sport is in flux. On Wednesday night, I attended Headstrong at the Ensemble Studio Theatre in New York, a play that embodies the struggle between love for football and the danger of playing it.
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