Sorry, I’m not quite seeing the problem? You say there are better alternatives but what’s below seems to describe pretty much what would be needed: a sport very much like football but where head injury is the exception and unusual rather than something to be expected. According to a quick search, there are 256 games in a football season. This is more concussions than games played, and it’s not cool. Rugby definitely has its own concussion problem, but it’s nowhere near on the scale of the NFL as far as I can figure. Of course I actively dislike football while I find rugby tolerable to watch (I have a thing about wasted time in sports, and rugby is far better,) so that may be coloring my perception.
