Professor Michael Munger writes in New York Times about the dangers of sports equipment and says Rugby is safer alternative to American football

Jason Fool
   Professor Michael Munger wrote an appealing article in the New York Times and I was pleasantly surprised and pleased to see the famed Duke University professor now become a columnist with the New York Times. professor Michael Munger has a sports column and he may just indeed become a great alternative and a libertarian sports voice alternative to a fool like  Dave Zirin, who writes bad progressive sports columns for the Nation magazine. Munger took on the sports industrial complex and all the fake safety fake news standards of spots equipment which he challenges the notion of them making products for safety. Munger correctly pointed out this gear, which companies and executives make hundreds of millions from foolish parents.

Munger says how there are far less injuries in rugby which he played in college and briefly in professional ball for the mighty Queensland reds of Australia. The part of the problem is behavior and culture in American football where helmets give players a false sense of security where these fools think they are safe to drive their hear like a ram at full speed into an opposing player and this is needed for athletic glory. The equipment companies making mass profits actually do more harm than good by providing a theory for these fools and coaches who cite  that these violent games are less dangerous because companies can sell "safety" gear that does little to prevent injures and encourages reckless play. Munger says in his year of sitting on the bench at Queensland Reds games he never saw anyone get their bell rung and that American collision ball and the foolish national obsession is a national travesty. Irish and Australian rugby is so much a safer and better alternative to the crap the United States puts every fall on their fields and television screens. The fact that schools and universities promote a spectacles that destroys human tissue and the body will be looked down upon by future generations as we think how barbaric Romans were for their gladiator events. the fact that the rest of the world has rejected this odd North America professional game only played by the countries of the United States, Canada, and Alaska says a lot about what the rest of the globe thinks of this sick and foolish gory game. The Duke professor also blamed high school and college coaches and their tackeling routines for the sport