The number of children who die from dog attacks each year is roughly the same as the number of children who die playing football. So, no family pet? The number of children who die riding a bike each year is about 20 times as many as die playing football. No bikes for kids?a kid going into my sisters class as a freshman actually died during football practice as my senior year of highschool was about to start.
http://www.apnewsarchive.com/1998/B...e-in-Heat/id-53fc3aff517c74f359e48a68ea605380
totally unrelated to concussions though.
The number of children who die from dog attacks each year is roughly the same as the number of children who die playing football. So, no family pet? The number of children who die riding a bike each year is about 20 times as many as die playing football. No bikes for kids?
Is football, played at the high school level, necessarily worse than a lot of other activities as far as long term risks?
we've been playing football for over 100 years and just NOW people are worried about it?
iirc correctly people were regularly dying playing football until the government got involved. That was a long time ago.
Look up Teddy Roosevelt and football.
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You say people were regularly dying from football and I asked for some type of reference.
Look it up yourself. One thing I remember for sure is that there were deaths involved.
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From now on your word is law and cannot be disputed.
The number of children who die from dog attacks each year is roughly the same as the number of children who die playing football. So, no family pet? The number of children who die riding a bike each year is about 20 times as many as die playing football. No bikes for kids? Is football, played at the high school level, necessarily worse than a lot of other activities as far as long term risks?
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You say people were regularly dying from football and I asked for some type of reference.
I would encourage it. Football does good things for kids. I'm sure only a minority get concussions.
Anyway, as Carolla would say it: "Pain is temporary. Being a pussy is forever". Do you want your kids to never experience pain or disappointment, or do you want them to be tough and disciplined? You generally can't have both. In fact one usually begets the other. Hence football and other such sports.
http://www.history.com/news/how-teddy-roosevelt-saved-football
"The Chicago Tribune reported that in 1904 alone, there were 18 football deaths and 159 serious injuries, mostly among prep school players. Obituaries of young pigskin players ran on a nearly weekly basis during the football season."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_football#Early_history
I remember reading about the numbers of deaths prior to some serious overhauls during the original buildup and spread of the sport in the late 1800s and early 1900s. It was mostly prep and college ball - and an almost entirely different game. Heck, there wasn't a forward pass even involved. It was a lot closer to a bastard of rugby than anything else, almost exactly like rugby at the start and, over the years, slowly removing or changing rules to make a different game. It remained brutal as all hell though - the forward pass was not a legal move until 1906, yet they had the system of downs already in place. Oh, and you could legally tackle below the waist starting in 1888.
That's all part of why early gridiron football was so brutal, and why, even though it originated in rugby, it was more dangerous.
Heading a soccer ball causes at least short-term cognitive dysfunction, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Texas in Houston.
No sport is immune to injury/concussions. But some sports are clearly more prone to them than others. One very interesting thing of note - look at that ESPN link I provided. Look at the difference between boys and girls and concussions per sport. In basketball the women are almost 2x as likely to get a concussion as the men.
Weird. And in almost every other sport women are more likely to suffer concusions.
Maybe men are more primitive and more caveman like and have thicker skulls for bashing other men and hunting creatures that can bash a head in.
LOL This.tackle yes
flag no
LOL This.
Friends don't let friends play flag football. Unless maybe it's coed.
Agreed. I was miserably bad at football and also the smallest kid ever to play at my school - my helmet would spin all the way around with a good hit, which will REALLY get your parents up off the bench - but it taught me some valuable life lessons, foremost being the value of discipline and hard work. Also that I would not be able to skate through life with 20/200 vision, a lesson that had previously proved beyond a Suzuki 50cc and trees.It's the nanny state ran by helicopter parents.
It's the reason society is in the shape it's in.