m daniel flynn the author on war on football, saving america's game. these lawyers and doctors do this, sure people get injured playing football, get injured a whole lot of other ways, too, right? >> what a lot of people don't understand 10% of the players suing the nfl never played a down in an official nfl game. these are guys who got cut in the preseason games, like we'll see tonight and tomorrow night, for me, it's hard to believe that guys who played in pop warner, high school and college, the idea they had a cup of coffee in the nfl and they're going to sue and sayheir brain damage occurred there, it's hard for me to believe, the guys who played in the strike in 1997, backup quarterbacks and kickers, they surd this brain injury, the ironic thing is, they're hurting every league they're not suing. youth football was 6%. if they go down 6 .. they're not going to last. >> that's such an important thing. i'm thinking, when you say it's easy, it's hard for these people toelieve that suing the nfl is going to have -- it's easy to understand that becaus

♪ >> author daniel flynn has a message for all of the alarmist warning about the dangers of football.we should encourage sports, not slobs." he argues that the drum beat on football violence has hurt participation leading to a society of fat sos. this is another indication of how america will hurt us in the future. the obvious thing would be to go to bob right now. i don't want to. i want to go to danica. she's our resident expert on football. >> i do like exercise. i don't have children. i don't play football. i think the more exercise is probably better. >> better? >> you are taking quite a stance there. we'll get a lot of letters. how dare you advocate exercise. >> your thoughts, my man? >> okay. two things or maybe three. sports, worst thing about sports is infusion of pop culture. i get a head injury when i watch the super bowl halftime show. that's more dangerous. number two, female cheerleaders is the most dangerous sport in america is female cheerleading which is why i set up my own clinic in my apartment for all of the injuries. >> what about male cheerleaders? are they welco

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