[TangledUpInBlue]

But is it football or all contact sports? This is where people fail to use logic.

The NCAA just released a study about head injury and sports. The top worst four sports for head injuries were as follows:

1) Basketball
2) Soccer
3) Wrestling
4) Football

Lacrosse hasn’t been around long enough to measure statistics.

This witch hunt has to stop. The lessons learned from football are life lessons and very valuable to young boys becoming men. I’ve seen and experienced the difference repeatedly first hand.

There’s a chance for injury in every sport or activity. Skiing, trampolines, skate boarding, snow boarding, bike riding. What are kids supposed to do? Sit in a bubble?

You can’t live life that way.

[Colonel Kangaroo]

According to a graphic on the NCAA website, rassling is the number one concussion sport followed by men and women's hockey football and women's soccer. I think women's basketball is much more dangerous in this regard than men's. Women need to play under the old halfcourt rules as fullcourt basketball is a rougher man's sport

[safeasthebanks]

“The NCAA just released a study about head injury and sports.”

Is this available to the public? I can’t find this anywhere.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

What are kids supposed to do? Sit in a bubble?

You can’t live life that way.

That makes all the sense in the world - right up to the point where your family has a member’s number come up. My brother lived to be 76, and he was a football fan all his life. But his playing - and essentially all physical activity - ended abruptly one Saturday in in October. And, according to his death certificate, he presumably would still be alive today but for that accident.

On the occasion of my brother’s death, the son of one of Mother’s friends emailed me to the effect that his mother told him of my brother’s accident - and pleaded with him not to play football. I myself was on the JV team, and continued through the rest of the season - but after that, the subject of my playing football just never came up.

According to this article I suffered brain damage when I tackled a big kid in a 3-on-3 game, and saw stars (and also, it must be said, even more so when I inadvertently ran into a telephone pole which should not have been placed in the middle of a school playground). But it is also true that most spinal cord injuries, including my brother’s, happen to HS aged boys.

Maybe football should only be played in college and professionally . . .