In Eric Buchman’s view, “...it’s hard to root for a team when there’s a chance you’re also rooting for a rapist.” By focusing on the rapes and sexual assaults, Buchman overlooks the deeper problem of football. The main problem of football is the long lasting effects of football. According to Marvin Washington, a former N.F.L champion, “The major problem is with chronic traumatic encephalopathy, the brain disorder that is the N.F.L.'s industrial disease.” C.T.E or chronic traumatic encephalopathy has affected way to many former football stars and this needs to change. Therefore the fans and the avid watchers of football need to come together and tell the N.F.L that there is a problem. This can not go on forever and if it does the N.F.L will not exist in the next 50 years. Although C.T.E is one of the biggest problems with football today, I still hold the opinion that football is not ruining players lives, it is providing the life for players that never had