Sunday, January 27, 2013

Obama says football needs to become less violent: report

Obama says football needs to become less violent: report

U.S. President Obama honors the New York Giants NFL team, winners of Super Bowl XLVI, in WashingtonWASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said he loves football but thinks the sport should "probably change gradually" so that there are fewer concussions, particularly at the college level. "I'm a big football fan, but I have to tell you if I had a son, I'd have to think long and hard before I let him play football," Obama said in a wide-ranging interview with The New Republic magazine published early on Sunday on its website. Football is America's most popular televised sport, an industry worth $9 billion a year. ...



Source: news.yahoo.com

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