America’s wrong to love football?

Football and its most powerful organization, the National Football League, have faced a serious public relations problem regarding concussions. The NFL settled a massive class-action lawsuit brought by former players (and now, another former player is suing). Retired NFL star Junior Seau committed suicide, and was later found to have shown abnormalities associated with chronic traumatic encephalopathy.

Seau shot himself in the chest in 2012. Afterward, his family agreed to have his brain studied. Hollywood signed up Will Smith to dramatize the story of concussions in the NFL in the movie "Concussion," which chided the American love of football. The NFL is "a corporation that owns a day of the week," quipped Albert Brooks, playing forensic pathologist Dr. Cyril Wecht, "the same day the church used to own."