After a Wednesday where two players suffered significant knee injuries in a Dolphins practice with the Carolina Panthers, and both teams had to talk like it's another day at the office, it's a good time for the annual question:
What does it say about America that football is America's Game?
At least that's my annual question, an August habit of confession and confusion before several months of embracing a game more brutal and barbaric than anything under the guise of sport.
Concussions? Show compassion, if it helps you deal with what you're watching. But don't let surviving family members talk too loudly about it, as Junior Seau's family was silenced at his posthumous Hall of Fame induction.