I'm managing two fantasy football teams this year. One is with some high school buddies, the other is more of a random assortment of laptop gridiron enthusiasts. In both of them, Peyton Manning is my star quarterback.

Correction, was my star quarterback. Now with an additional neck surgery, they're saying Manning might not even be able to play at all this season.

The question of exactly how brutal a sport American football is has never really been up for debate. A 300 pound man running at 15 MPH is putting off about 3,000 joules of kinetic energy: that's double the energy of an AK-47 bullet. Imagine getting hit by that dozens of times a game!

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