"How Andrew Luck’s retirement highlights football’s ‘brutal’ nature" PBS NewsHour 8/26/2019

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SUMMARY:  NFL quarterback Andrew Luck has announced his resignation at age 29.  Plagued by injuries, the Indianapolis Colts player called it quits just two weeks before the new season begins.  Sportswriter John Feinstein, author of the book “Quarterback,” which profiled Luck and four other NFL quarterbacks, joins John Yang to discuss the physical and mental toll of the nation’s most-watched sport.