I’m sure you probably aren’t like that. Just like I’m sure the people in favor of playing aren’t taking the “just rub some dirt on it” attitude like you suggested. The caricature of you being frightened of your shadow is just as unfair as the one you are painting of others.
I can't help but see the petulance, though.
Say it wasn't college football. Say it was something else, same economics, same age group, but not college football. Would there be such an outcry?
I'll use "we" here:
WE want the games to happen.
WE know there are minor risks.
WE want it because we want it.
I see it like the idea of heaven. Of course we invented that idea, of a forever place of our liking - the best possible place. Because we want it to be.
If I was a player, I'd want to play. But it would be a good thing that someone stopped me. If not my parent, then my coach. If not my coach, then my conference. The players need saving from themselves and all of the fans who are in angst need that, too.
And here's the thing - maybe they don't. That's entirely possible, even probable. But we just don't know.
That's all.
