I think the first thing I would say is that I wouldn't say it now, because you're at the start of your own journey in this. As you've described, you've had some experiences with your own children and with others you've seen. But you're going to have an immersive experience in the next couple of months, and you need to find out for yourselves. You're going to find some surprises along the way. You'll feel something that you didn't think you'd feel, and you'll think something that you didn't think you'd think, and all that.
The only thing that I would say to you is what I was trying to say at the end of my comments, in terms of listening hard, thinking hard, and then acting hard. As you move along from the athletes to the scientists and then to the decision-makers, I think you're going to have the background and the feeling where you can ask the right questions of those sports decision-makers and essentially be able to say, “You've heard about those athletes. Tell me what you are doing in your game. Your game has changed. Your game is always changing. Your game can change again.”
As I said in my comments, you are not just the custodian of your game. First and foremost, you're the custodian of those who play your game. How can you make your game a game that is so exciting and pleasurable to play, but is also safer? We need to hear an answer to that. If you say there's no answer to it, I'm sorry, but look at this sport over here and what it's trying. Look at what the other one is trying. Why aren't you trying that? It's your obligation to do that.
I don't even know enough about this to say much about it, but I've talked to some people in rugby. They have a really interesting challenge. They have a game that isn't a particularly popular game in Canada in terms of participants. They have an experience with lots of head injuries, and they can't put a helmet on it to pretend that it goes away. What do they do? The only thing they can do is look at how the game is played. They have an absolute necessity to park impossibility and to focus on possibility. What are they doing? All these things that don't fit with rugby, show me how they fit.