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Boycotts and brain damage cast a dark shadow over football season

A new NFL season has come with new controversy for the powerful sports league

MINDY REED HAS BEEN IN LOVE with the NFL for more than 50 years. As a kid in Connecticut, she wore a Bart Starr jersey and bonded over the game with her dad. Fandom helped Reed break into the old-boys’ club as she climbed the corporate ladder at Dell and connect with football-mad Texans when she switched careers and became a librarian in Austin. Now she’s giving it all up.

Reed, 61,

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