Football as we know it is Over

[grampahol]

Rules have always changed from time to time. If you think back to the origins of all these sporting events they were informal affairs when nobody was paid. They were just local groups getting together for informal rumbles and such .. It was basically bragging rights to see who had the meanest guys in town.  
My grandfather played catcher with just the barest of shin protection when players sharpened the spikes on their shoes to inflict the maximum damage possible and his old legs really showed it .
The game isn't going to stop being played ,but since players are now huge financial investments by teams they have a need to try to protect their investment. 
I suspect that if players were still paid the way they once were the rules wouldn't have even had a need for change . If you're paying some guy with extraordinary skills at a premium position millions of dollars every season you really don't want to expose him to potentially losing the use of his legs, arms and so on .
A few fans like seeing guys getting mutilated and dragged off in a pile of blood and gore, but only when it's the other team . After all, if it's going to be a game of  gore and blood then just drag poor suckers off the streets to entertain the masses. Otherwise it doesn't make financial sense to pay out millions upon millions for guys who might not live to see their own children grow up.  When you get right down to it none of it makes sense, paying grown men millions of dollars to risk life and limb for a few hours of Sunday entertainment ? There really are much safer ways to be entertained. Why not just Sunday afternoon televised pornography? Nobody gets hurt, but oh! That's immoral as opposed to guys getting their arms and legs mangled in the name of entertainment . Much more morality involved.