How could NFL football be made safer?

Design and use a soft helmet. It should eliminate them using their own heads/helmets as a weapon while still protecting them from accidental hits to the head.

Pay them less money.

Danger = excitement = we will pay $$$.

Even if they don’t use your own head in tackling, just getting jerked around while being tackled is enough to make your brain rattle and cause a concussion, right? So no helmet change is going to fix that. Honestly, I don’t really see how it can be done, unless they rule out tackling altogether. And then it won’t be football anymore. It’s a dilemma, that’s for sure.

Smarter coaching, strict enforcement of helmet-to-helmet penalties. Football players join at their own risk. It’s just you and the other guys out there. survive and succeed.

It might just change the game so much that the fans won’t feel it is worth it to go. Doing dangerous things will always be dangerous. The players could be forced to take out special accident coverage for this later on in their lives. I can’t imagine they aren’t doing that right now. I would imagine it will be expensive but these players are doing alright financially.Make it a tax write off. One way or another the solution will revolve around money and who is going to foot the bill.