An Ounce of Prevention Equals a Pound of Cure

NFL players, past and present, have got to be the dumbest group of people in the whole entire world. Maybe it comes from being hit in the head so often.
After years of complaining that the league's care for injured retirees was insufficient, there now come cries from many players to ease up on the fines for dirty and late hits.
The idea here is simple, prevent blows to the heads, prevent blindside and late hits help the players avoid serious injury, so they don't become crippled and incapaciated later in life.
It seems however that the players want to hurt and kill each other than get paid handsomely while they spend their later years drinking their meals through a straw.
The league is doing the right thing here. The players are idiots. Mark Schlereth's rant makes no sense. Of course the league is trying to protect itself, but it's also trying to protect the players. Of course it wants to market hard hits, it's part of the beauty of the game, but the league is trying to walk a fine line by keeping the hitting that makes the sport great, but limiting those hits that are most likely to cause serious injury.
And then you have schmucks like Mike Ditka, who has been one of the most vocal critics of the disability system, saying they should get rid of facemasks. Maybe if shots to the head had been so strictly legislated against when he was playing he wouldn't say such stupid things now.