It's that time of the year again...football season. With the excitement building as rivalries renew both at the collegiate and professional level, it seems an appropriate time to look at the sleep through the lens of the sport of American football. In this episode we will:Preface the episode by considering the first athletic trainer in history, James Robinson of HarvardExplore some of the early research looking as sleep and football player/team performanceDissect the controversy regarding the actual risk of sleep disordered breathing in American football playersDifferentiate the differences between professional football sleep and collegiate sleep both in and out of seasonTouch upon the evidence for increased injury in underslept playersLook ahead to innovative programs designed to manage the sleep of football players both active and retiredProduced by: Maeve WinterMore Twitter: @drchriswinter IG: @drchriwinter Threads: @drchriswinter Bluesky: @drchriswinter The Sleep Solution and The Rested Child Thanks for listening and sleep well!