We've talked a lot about the potential for repeated head injuries to cause one of two fatal downfalls to football as played in North America: (1) the long-term brain poundings football players get lead to dementia and its related issues for the players down the road, which we can already see leading current players away from the sport, and (2) the financial cost for leagues and institutions hosting football teams when lawsuits are brought to court and won against them for physical and mental damage to the players.
Here's a new case out of Iowa, where a high school athlete was "allowed" to continue practicing and playing after what seems to have been a severe head trauma that bled. In this case, it was the head coach and the school nurse who were held particularly culpable.
If you're the administration or school board of that school, and you just got hit with a million dollar bill because of your football program...what do you do?
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