In a debate on curbing Violent Sports, one needs to distance oneself and ask the question:
Do you want to curb violence in sports, which is the basic problem, rather than violent sports?

This is like the need to curb unseemly horror and excess of violence in movies, rather than an attempt to ban all horror movies. For more details please look up my views in the link:

http://www.helium.com/items/1813828-violent-sports-vs-violence-in-sports