Football is facing an existential crisis, whether the game and its culture want to admit it or not. In Welcome to the Machine, author, war veteran, and former Division 1 football player Glen Hines explores how various forces in American society and culture try to salvage football despite the growing evidence of its destructive effects. Part memoir, part cultural analysis, part chronicle of the biggest medical crisis facing American sport in over 100 years, this story is mandatory reading for parents with sons and a cautionary tale for thinking people who continue to fuel America's gladiatorial spectacle.