UNC Football Coach Larry Fedora Tackled for Rant About CTE: ‘Our Game Is Under Attack’ (Video)

With pigskin participation in decline, “Our country will go down, too,” he tells reporters at ACC Media Day

Larry Fedora
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Better rewrite your ESPYS monologue, Danica Patrick: UNC head football coach Larry Fedora just went on a wild rant defending his sport and questioning its connection to CTE. And then he took the whole thing a step further, suggesting that keeping kids out of football for fear of brain injury could become a national security risk.

“Our game is under attack,” Fedora told reporters during the ACC’s Media Day, according to ESPN. “I fear that the game will get, will get pushed so far to one extreme, that you won’t recognize the game 10 years from now. And that’s what I worry about.

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