99% chance playing in the NFL will Ruin your life

This data is pretty conclusive and brutal.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/07/25/sports/football/nfl-cte.html?mtrref=www.nytimes.com&gwh=B7E022C7102331247DF7D02EAA603BB2&gwt=pay

Baltimore Ravens John Urschel, who is also pursuing a Post Doc at MIT, just retired. It can't be a coincidence. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/27/sports/football/john-urschel-baltimore-ravens-retires-nfl-cte-study.html

How could you ever consider letting your kid ever, in any sense, play organized football? But seriously couldn't a judge find that as negligence on a parent's behalf in a pretty easy way (with a few more of the same studies and similar results)? Letting your child smoke or drink at 8 yrs old like Charlie Sheen might be less destructive. I am only kind of kidding here.

Compared to other barbaric sports, did the NFL just oust Roman Gladiators as the most deadly sport? At least in every match, there is a 50% chance a gladiator would live? #maximus