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George Will is saying it. ESPN, one of the National Football League’s broadcast partners, is sort of saying it. And even the NFL, by staging a dog-and-pony show last week to co-opt the moms of America, is admitting it. Cripes, football 2012-13 is a mess.<\/p>\n

I don’t even refer to the ever-growing ranks of ex-pro player litigants, or the attempts by some NFL insurers to bail. The country’s most popular bloodsport can survive the upcoming multibillion-dollar hit at that level.<\/p>\n

But just look around at the alternating chords of denial and panic inside Pop Warner and public high school programs. My favorite story involves the pee-wee coach in Massachusetts who doesn’t confine himself to limiting contact time in practice, per the nearly useless recommendations of the Boston go-to guys in “concussion awareness.” No, sir. This coach has a stopwatch and a spreadsheet<\/em>, with which he attempts to record and accumulate contact times for each individual squirt. Good luck with that one, o molders of young men. (See “Pop Warner football programs adjust to new contact rules in practice,” Phil Perry, Boston Globe<\/em>, http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/local\/massachusetts\/2012\/08\/22\/pop-warner-football-programs-adjusting-new-contact-rules-practice-cutting-back-the-hits-softening-blows-during-practice\/RPnwVQqSkltWRRv5h7TBPN\/story.html<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

Regarding ESPN, I’ve already touted Peter Keating’s excellent emperor’s-clothes strip of the vaunted ImPACT concussion management system. Another piece in ESPN’s just-concluded multi-platform package on traumatic brain injuries that I highly recommend checking out is Tom Farrey’s “NFL Youth Football Fund faces crisis,” http:\/\/espn.go.com\/espn\/otl\/story\/_\/id\/8294350\/nfl-youth-football-fund-once-flush-millions-faces-safety-crisis-depleted-funds-options<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Farrey and other worthies are all over the football story right now. I’ll chime in when I have something urgent or unique to add to the conversation. In the meantime, I’ll keep the focus here on the criminals in youth swimming — both the perps and the higher-ups who cover up their actions, and thereby continue to endanger our children in that sport.<\/p>\n

But holy moly, is football ever a mess!<\/p>\n

Irv Muchnick<\/em><\/p>\n

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