The weekly savagery rises to unprecedented highs at the pro level where the speed of on-field collisions can potentially inflict irreparable damage to athletes engaged in hand-to-hand combat with opponents on the other side of the line of scrimmage.
While us fans routinely watch and admire the courageous physical feats of our favorite gridiron warriors, rarely do we ever ask ourselves how these competitors extinguish that inner game-time flame and revert back to being regular mild-mannered citizens that drop the kids off to school and pick up the milk and toilet paper for their wives on their way back home.