NFL violence makes strange bedfellows.
With Super Bowl XLVII looming, President Obama and Baltimore Ravens safety Bernard Pollard have both expressed serious reservations about the future of the NFL. In an interview with The New Republic published over the weekend, Obama suggested that the game "will probably change gradually to try to reduce some of the violence." Pollard, considered one of the premier (and reviled, at least in New England) dispensers of mayhem in the sport, fears that the NFL may be headed for an unprecedented tragedy and ultimately cease to exist.
"The league is trying to move in the right direction [with player safety] but, at the same time, [coaches] want bigger, stronger and faster year in and year out. And that means you're going to keep getting big hits and concussions and blown-out knees," Pollard told CBS Sports. "The only thing I'm waiting for ... and, Lord, I hope it doesn't happen ... is a guy dying on the field. We've had everything else happen there except for a death. We understand what we signed up for, and it sucks."
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