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Message: [QUOTE="zibby, post: 659856, member: 543"] I finally got around to watching this and I want to puke. Buzz Bissinger just ranted like a lunatic and Malcolm Gladwell twisted everyone's emotions talking about former players who killed themselves. Junior Seau had a lot of problems. He had just been arrested for beating up his girlfriend and he had Ambien in his system. It's way too easy to say he killed himself because he played football. And nobody even mentioned that at major conference universities, football pays for nearly all the other sports a university provides or that many universities that don't make money on football see it as a "loss leader" because of the attention it brings to the university, or that some colleges concerned about a lack of male applicants are adding football to try to attract more. [/QUOTE]