Ravens’ Bernard Pollard Says Football Won’t Exist in 20-30 Years


Baltimore Ravens defensive back Bernard Pollard says that he doesn’t believe that professional football will be around in 20 or 30 years to to the violent nature of the game and the injuries it produces.

Pollard addressed the issue on an interview Friday on SportsRadio 610 in Houston, Pollard said,

“in another 20 or 30 years, I don’t even think football will be in existence anymore.”

Pollard has been playing with the NFL for 7 years and four years of college before that. He was asked if he would be ok with his sons following in his footsteps into the world of professional football and he said,

“I know what my body has been through. I’m 27 years old. I take care of myself, but it’s a violent sport. I don’t want him to have go through it. I don’t want to see my son with a concussion.”

Pollard echoed the sentiments of two time MVP Kurt Warner who earlier said on NFL Network,

“They both have the dream, like dad, to play in the NFL. That’s their goal. And when you hear things like the bounties, when you know certain things having played the game, and then obviously when you understand the size, the speed, the violence of the game, and then you couple that with situations like Junior Seau—was that a ramification of all the years playing? And things that go with that. It scares me as a dad. I just wonder—I wonder what the league’s going to be like. I love that the commissioner is doing a lot of things to try to clean up the game from that standpoint and improve player safety, which helps, in my mind, a lot. But it’s a scary thing for me.”

Pollard did not express the same amount of respect for NFL commissioner Roger Goodell concerning the suspensions of various players in the “Bountygate” scandal. Pollard said,

“You have a man in position firing people and getting rid of guys for what? Everybody is showing these clips of these guys running around and hitting people. This is football. That’s what’s supposed to happen.”

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