In addition to the societal impact, the N.B.A. players' union is cutting its own throat by not pushing to adopt this rule.
The study did not directly address two more immediate and societal concerns: Do today's N.F.L. players face similar or worse long-term dangers, and to what extent might those risks reach down to the 1.2 million teenagers who play high school football every weekend?
In attempting to tell a postmodernist tale encompassing societal control, AIs, the role of the player and the currency of information, among a trillion other things, Kojima dropped the ball, the baby, and the fucking bomb.
With regard to the high incidence of musculoskeletal injuries among volleyball players and its negative consequences and societal impact, one might expect effective preventive measures to be available, especially for the common finger/wrist, shoulder, knee and ankle injuries.
Broncos Chairman and CEO Joe Ellis meanwhile applauded the players for "raising awareness for important societal issues by using their platform in a positive way".
The same flaws are there, chiefly the simple failure to produce high-quality, tactically state-of-the-art players, the result of a combination of societal neglect – we play too little; we have too little space to play – and an enduringly inadequate coaching culture, backed higher up by a failure to nurture and show patience with what talent does emerge.
Professional Cricketers Associationn chief Angus Porter, who believes cricket does not have a drug problem, told BBC Sport: "More testing will improve our chances of helping players with a problem which is as much societal as it is sporting".
The Copa Libertadores remains an important societal goal for South America, and also a golden paradigm to the players and teams of the continent.
The resounding box office success of Steven Spielberg's cross-cultural mash-up "Ready Player One" is only the most recent affirmation of a societal trend: we're all otaku now.
An alternative way to advance the societal purposes of assessments is e.g. to promote social learning among public officials, market players, and citizens.
It turned out that the first did not come from the N.F.L., after all, despite its having more players than any other league, dozens of whom are likely to be gay, if societal statistics can be applied to football players.
