Jack Anderson: Player concussions nothing to snicker about with rugby lawsuits pending
Jake Kolodjashnij, who was offered a renewed contract but with a clause in it that any risk relating to future concussions would lie with him. Pic: Michael Willson/AFL Photos via Getty Images
There is now easily a 30-year gap between me and the university law students I teach here in Melbourne. I was raised analogue; they are digital natives. I use terms and make cultural references that lead to facial responses that merge bewilderment, stupefaction and, occasionally, pity. It’s called the Gen Z stare.
In a class discussion about the recent governance shenanigans at Fifa, I mentioned in passing that I remembered the 1982 World Cup. Cue a collective and lengthy Gen Z stare. One of the students eventually roused himself and asked, was it played in black and white? Smart alec.
