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Football and other professional sportspersons regularly take pain meds on game days.

If that's true, then something is seriously wrong with football.

Have you heard of CTE?

I don't think anyone is arguing against that to be honest.

Hard disagree. There's an entire segment of the population that thinks football is continually being "pussified". Any attempt to make football not turn it's players into broken bodies is seen as ruining the sport.

They actively cheer for the bloodsport

I think that “anyone” should be interpreted as “anyone in this thread”. Of course you can find people arguing against anything being wrong with American football; you can find people arguing there are little gnomes living in their ears. And that’s probably excluding the Lizardman’s Constant.

Technically, their point still stands.

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