JOHN RIORDAN: America’s game facing its biggest challenge yet
The 47th Super Bowl, to be exact. The NFL cavalcade rode into New Orleans these past few days with a strew of unlikely storylines and bad press waiting to be scattered around its carefully managed temporary home for a week.
And yes, once again, concussion is dominating the discussion, the magnitude of this dilemma faced by the sport apparently becoming more and more evident as the stakes get higher.