'The United States Of Football' Documentary Brings Pain To The Sport It Loves

The idea that parents would question the wisdom of their kids playing full-contact, tackle football is not new. My parents held me out of little kids' football in the late 1970s-early 1980s because they feared my little spindly self would be broken into a million pieces. Looking at how I stayed spindly into high school, I ran cross country and track instead.