Nope; just too boring.

For both the players and the spectators, violent sports help satisfy a natural appetite for conflict that would otherwise require war-making. Let them play. They would come home from war in much worse condition... if they came home at all.

For children yes. I loathe the idea of parents letting kids play football. If adults want to engage in such behavior then they can do so once their frontal lobes are mature enough to make good judgement

While most football injuries are accidental, how does this compare to the "sport" of boxing ?
where the object is to deliberately damage the brain into a state of unconsciousness.. Whoever wins this battle is considered to be a great hero. Each vicious punch sends the skull flying while the stationary brain within is pulverised, as it is slammed into the skull in the opposite direction of the punch. Imagine the damage done with a of a flurry of such punches...... I would stick to football, and take my chances.

Maybe men's heads have evolutionarily become just too soft and vulnerable since we stopped whacking each other with clubs at every opportunity.

I can't watch it now, knowing the permanent brain damage happening with each clash. Same thing happens in soccer, when players use "headers" to hit the ball.

Heading a soccer ball causes instant brain changes, study finds [wapo.st]

Two thoughts: one idea is that more protection has allowed more brutal hitting. Soccer is held up as an example of keeping the padding off results in keeping the injuries down. The second thought is that I saw a high school's tee shirt for their football team that said "We will win, Any time, Any place, Any way". Methinks we have lost our sense of sport and moved into the kill or be killed arena.

The problem with the enhanced protection is that it does virtually nothing to prevent the physical movement of the brain inside the skull, which is what, effectively, causes concussions. There is really no way to prevent it when heads get banged together, or impacted forcefully in almost any way. There was a study done on woodpeckers awhile back to see how they could hammer trees so hard and rapidly, and not suffer brain damage. Of course, the study wasn't all that productive considering woodpeckers evolved over, what?, millions of years to be able to peck wood without concussing their little bird brains.

Bread and circuses...