This Sunday afternoon, Seattle will quietly become a ghost town. For a few hours, the city’s attention will be transfixed on dozens of massive men repeatedly colliding with each other.
After a few hours of brutal violence, one team will win, Seahawks fans will turn off their televisions, and the players will limp off the field and into the care of NFL trainers, who will hand out prescription painkillers. A recent federal lawsuit alleges that NFL teams violate laws in the way they dispense painkillers, though the NFL denies that.
