Antwan Randel-El can't walk down stairs

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I think the leather helmet idea would get people killed before it would solve anything... And then result in freak deaths and paralysis even after.

I think you preach heads up football, adopt the collegiate targeting rules, and then expand on them. Eject players for targeting, and suspend them for the length of the injured player's recovery.

It has to be punitive, because the risk to the person delivering the blow is negligible when compared to the person receiving the blow.