It isn't safe for the varsity, that's what makes them gladiators. A special breed, a special caste, and you wouldn't subject the genteel student body of mindlessly ambitious academic strivers to the same harsh physical abuses. Only the football players, who now are rightly getting paid for their exertions, as well as the effin' injuries they sustain on a regular basis, on account of even though they are great athletes, and are all jacked and built and super fit and thus in a good position to absorb the physical violence much better than the average schmuck, are put in the harm's way of a tackle football player....
And the student body can play 7 on 7, which is totally fun, great exercise, and great competition and very engaging and exhilarating and all the rest of it, and then everything will be golden.
To me that's the effed-up part of the sport of football. Not the violence of it on an emotional level or psychological level. Some people complain about that, that you have to be too aggressive in your heart and mind to play it well, which I think is stupid. Those people are just pussies. It's the damage you do to your body. Serious injuries, and even more minor injuries and all the gradual/invisible wear and tear that steadily accumulates. Something like CTE is just the icing on the cake, and shouldn't have been a surprise to anyone.
