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We can debate this until we're all blue in the face but no one is stopping football --not injuries or safety groups or parents or lawsuits or Chris Collinsworth. It's too much a part of the American fabric.
Taking pads and helmets out of football is an even worse idea. It's a contact sport. You have to provide some protection, especially to minors in high school, etc. Until they prove that the protection is actually causing the injuries they are meant to safeguard they won't do a thing about it.
Just because rugby players do not use helmets does not mean they are concussion-free. And I don't see a lot of head to head contact in rugby. Tackling, yes. Scrums, yes, but not the kind of helmet to helmet impact common in football.
And I'm willing to bet there are far more leg and knee injuries in football at any level than concussions. I think it's far more likely they will require knee braces as standard equipment than take away helmets and shoulder pads.
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