Art Caplan, rapidly becoming the official bioethicist of sports, writes that:

A tearful memorial service was held Tuesday in Mountain View, Calif., for Thomas Herrion, 23, an offensive lineman for the San Francisco 49ers football team. The service drew more than 500 people, including the commissioner of the National Football League, Paul Tagliabue, and many other NFL officials and coaches. Their grief for the loss of this young athlete was sincere. But the NFL does not seem to have gotten one message it needs to learn from Herrion’s death: Players in the NFL have gotten too fat.