Monday's health and safety news from the world of football:
- The Seattle Times examined how coaches from other sports have peeked inside Seattle Seahawks' coach Pete Carroll's lab, noting how the defending champions' leader has changed the player culture.
- A Newsday survey of 763 former players found 61 percent found the transition difficult to post-NFL life.
- Forbes looked at how former NFL stars regularly cash in during Super Bowl week.
- The St. Louis Post-Dispatch featured the injury talk that always surrounds Super Bowl week.
- NFL.com reported on how technology took another leap in the league as officials experimented with tablets for replay reviews in Sunday's Pro Bowl.
- Revenge of the Birds reported on how some Pro Bowl players visited airmen at Luke Air Force Base in Glendale, Arizona.
- Adweek reported on the safety improvements with the latest models for Riddell helmets.
- The New York Daily News reported on proposed city rules that would require a doctor to be present at all youth football games. Staten Island Live reported that Staten Island youth leagues don't support the bill.
- KWIT-FM in Sioux City, Iowa, reported on how area high school officials are seeking a safer path back from concussions for area athletes.
- The San Jose Mercury News looked at the debate over the two-year playoff ban for the Serra (California) High School football team, which forfeited a playoff consolation game for player-safety reasons.
- The Middletown (New York) Times Record featured a local inventor who thinks he has created a helmet breakthrough with the Cosmic Shock Helmet Pads.
- The Lancaster (Pennsylvania) Eagle Gazette looked at why young athletes need time off.
- The Santa Clarita (California) Valley Signal featured a concussion conference at Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital.
-- Bill Bradley, contributing editor
