Insurance Happy Hour

Today Laird is writing the episode summary so it will be less creative than a Family Guy cutaway.... Today we talk about this weekend's "big game"® ™ ℠ and how professional sports such as the football, hockey and soccer might be dying pastimes due to the increased liability created by today's faster, stronger athletes (and their litigious lawyers). For the NFL and all of football, a new threat: an evaporating insurance market (https://www.si.com/nfl/2019/01/17/nfl-no-more-general-liability-insurance-covering-head-trauma) Will insurance destroy America's favorite sport? (https://www.insurancebusinessmag.com/us/news/breaking-news/will-insurance-destroy-americas-favorite-sport-122643.aspx) Freakonomics podcast: How Much Brain Damage Do I Have? (http://freakonomics.com/podcast/brain-damage/) Now if only bowling became a contact sport. That'd I'd watch.