Thank you, Star Tribune

I am back home for a couple days for a friends' wedding (which means that I actually am blogging from my mother's basement tonight!) One of the benefits to this is that I am treated to the morning paper, the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Of course, they had this giant picture on the front page of the sports section:
Gross. Just what I want to see with my waffles in the morning. In all seriousness though, it was associated with a piece by Jim Souhan, investigating the increasingly violent game that is professional fooball.