As a football fan, it’s always painful to hear the increasing number of stories about players sustaining head injuries that range from your standard (but still dangerous) concussions to chronic traumatic encephalopathy. It’s easy to let oneself be ignorant of it while rooting for our favorite players during the truly suspenseful and exciting 60 minutes of game play. But at the end of the day, many professional athletes (and their families and friends) are suffering, some of them attempting — and sometimes succeeding — to end that suffering via violent means. It’s the NFL fan’s dilemma, and Travis Waldron at Think Progress articulates it well. (via Think Progress)