NFL's dirty little secret: Players suffer

http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/01/25/pearlman.football.concussions/index.html

According to Jeff Pearlman, playing football is bad for you. He refferces to how players that retire or after they are done playing suffer from severe dementia and not able to walk. He talks about how some players that played back in the 80's and even later. Though you can suffer and get injuried by playing to this day there is much better gear to help and protect NFL players. So I would have to disagree with the fact that playing football is bad for you. It is only bad if your not prepared and if you not wearing the equipment the right way or be as safe as possible. The persuasive techniques they used were Testimonial. I really think this opinion makes me pretty mad due to how he uses players that played back in the later times were equipment wasn't as well  made or as safe. Now also the rules help to prevent injury and help keep NFl players as safe and healthy as possible.