The thing is there are concussions in both those sports, and broken bones, but no one wants to mention it. Football has more concussions because it's a collision sport but nobody objects to the other sports. Look at soccer for instance I've seen players die on the field. Some of the most gruesome injuries I've ever seen was in slow pitch softball games. I learned a lot of life lessons on the football field when it comes to winning and losing. There might be an age when football is simply useless for a kid such as 8 or 9 year old but they seldom collide hard enough to get concussions. It's the parents call but kids get injured everyday on the school playground.
I disagree. Football is a contact sport that requires a defender to take the opponent to the ground. There are techniques that you have to learn to do that efficiently. Flag football does not teach those fundamentals, nor does it teach players proper blocking techniques. Flag football is more like 7 on 7 where the only skills employed are running, passing, and catching. Many coaches are now complaining that 7 on 7 camps are actually hurting the game as they don't put players in situations that they will encounter in real game, real contact situations.
Presumably because head injuries are more dangerous/life altering than other types of injuries?
I officiated 6 and 7 year old leagues -- they don't hit anything with their heads. They just grab with their hands and fall down with "an injury" for the attention.
Won't work you could put an eye out with those things. Ban it..ban it before it's too late!this just in!!!.........tiddlywinks to replace football
Swedes used to be Vikings and now they are coward to terrorists. This football thing is just more liberalism. People should continue to have choices.
Has anybody been told they cannot play football? Does it bother you that our government tells people they cannot smoke pot?
Some people want to make it that way. And many think in a number of years that football, as we know it today, won't be around. It doesn't bother me that the government says people can't smoke pot as that is a societal law that they have chosen - some states have actually changed that law. I could debate a lot of things, but in a nutshell I am all for things that are legal, moral and ethical. If anything passes all three of those test - I am good with it.
So, an adult choosing to smoke pot is unethical and immoral, but allowing your child to ram his head into things in a way that has proven to cumulatively create traumatic brain injury is perfectly fine. I see.
You mean the sport where they encourage fighting and hitting each other on the head? You could be right .
Football and basketball players lose some teeth also...But those hockey players take a lot of shots on or near the head. Where are the brain police with respect to them?
