[egypturnash]

Thanks!

Actually my non-football life mostly taught me that I hate teamwork and sacrifice; I burnt out on the animation industry in part because I wasn't interested in being a minor part of someone else's creative vision.

And as to strategy... funny, my choice in video games is really never about commanding a team and thinking about multiple characters and a tactical situation, I'd rather play a single entity.

There were bits of organized sports required in school of course, but my lack of enthusiasm for those games left me stuck out in the far boring edges of the field, which did little to increase my enthusiasm for any organized sports.

(Also I suspect that in the situation the original article describes, where football is the subject of a lot of legal action over concussions, organizations like Pop Warner would find themselves having major financial problems, and facing a growing social stigma against letting one's kids play The Brain Damage Game. Unless perhaps it became exclusively low-contact football.)

[PopeOfNope]

Had you been exposed to those concepts at an earlier age, maybe you would have more of an affinity for them. Maybe not. Also, one of the concepts exposed in football is leadership and hard work. I started at the age of 8 as a lineman. When I quit at the beginning of my Senior year, I would have been co-captain of the defensive backfield. Isn't the concept of meritocracy something we espouse in the startup field?

As for the brain damage scare, it'll pass. Soccer went through it a few years ago[0]. As for the concept of social stigma for playing football, I laugh. If you actually think a concussion scare 'all of a sudden' is going to sway communities with dozens of years of entrenched culture, you're living in a bubble.

[0]: high school soccer teams suffer more concussions than high school football teams do.