NFL safety

Many NFL players have criticized the new fines being dished out to defensive players. The new rules essentially say that it is illegal to hit a "defenseless" offensive players and there is no more launching-knockout-sports-center-top-10- hits. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has fined several players over the past few years over helmet to helmet hits and has even resorted to suspending players, such as Dunta Robinson of the Atlanta Falcons. Defensive players are the ones complaining more often than not because more often than not, they are the ones being fined for the violent hits. The reasons the fines have been implemented is because there has been research done that shows that football does serious damage to the brain, and outlawing these hits could reduce these affects. This controversy brings up an interesting point: is it such a bad thing that we want to protect football players? I would like to believe that we are better than the Romans, that we would not stand for individuals being murdered and paying to see it...but the outcry against theses fines makes me wonder.