Opinion: Football-related injuries extend far beyond concussions
In football, concussions matter. But other injuries that make it difficult to walk or cause chronic pain are also high prices to pay for playing the game.
Most football reporting spotlights the scoreboard: who threw the touchdown passes, who rushed for how many yards, which team ultimately carried the day. But if you instead read sports stories with a focus on the injuries that players suffer, football news begins to look less like a tally of points scored and more like an emergency department sign-in log.
If and when you think about football injuries, you probably think about concussions. is an important part of the story of the risks of
