[Stanley Nickels]

I certainly don't agree with government intervention in cases like this, but so many of you are looking at this from some "traditionalist" mindset.
The fact is, so many of you that played recreationally or in middle/high school, didn't have nearly as intense workouts as pro football teams. Your grampys weren't having heat strokes, but they also weren't running two-a-days between weightlifting, plyometrics, resistance and speed training, etc.
The bodies are pushed to be bigger, better, faster and stronger, and the response to extreme conditions is indicative in cases like this.

The heat stroke issue should be inherent to coaches in players who practice in that weather-- that's not where my argument is. But to simply argue that "well, we've been doing it this way for decades"... well, that just doesn't translate the same any more.