[bankwalker]

He’s not built for it ...

[Doogle]

"....72 footballs available for today's game. Let's hope their all inflated correctly"

[Georgia Girl 2]

Anymore if your kid is not at least 6ft and 200 lbs of muscle he will get annihilated in high school ball.

[dowcaet]

Athletes are bigger, stronger and quicker than ever before. The injuries are getting more numerous and devastating as a result. It’s a dangerous sport no matter how much we enjoy it as a nation!

[babble-on]

“Already long ago, from when we sold our vote to no man, the People have abdicated our duties; for the People who once upon a time handed out military command, high civil office, legions — everything, now restrains itself and anxiously hopes for just two things: bread and circuses.” - Juvenal

HAPPY SUPER BOWL SUNDAY!! TRY THE NACHOS!

[Reno89519]

Agreed. Even though I played it in school many years ago, I would never let our sons do so today.

[mfish13]

I am against footbal, too. PLAY RUGBY!

[mfish13]

I am against footbal, too. PLAY RUGBY!

[sphinx]

Well, Barron is safe at St. Andrews, which doesn't field a football team. It's a small school. It has a very active athletic program and tries to be competitive in its leagues, but football requires numbers. I know a couple of families whose boys played football at small private schools that do play the sport. They have to work really, really, really, really hard to find comparably small schools that also play the sport. They drive all over creation to do so, and still have difficulty fleshing out a full schedule. So they end up playing the smallest schools they can find, which are still two or three times bigger. Half the team ends up injured and they get blown out regularly. Chronic mismatches take the fun out of the game. Barron has plenty of other sports to choose from.

The small schools really should try a small-sided version of the game, which has a long history in sparsely populated Plains states. Play a seven or eight man, single platoon game with limited substitutions. That's real football, and it's fun. It's the way backyard pickup games are played. Or shift to rugby to reduce injuries. Or just stick with soccer, lacrosse, basketball, wrestling, track, etc.

[SmokingJoe]

Well Obama said the same thing, more or less. He said if he had a son, he wouldn't let him play in the NFL because it was too dangerous. Looking at how scrawny Obama is, I'd say there was little chance of any son of his playing in the NFL.

[jz638]

If the sport went back to thick sweaters and leather helmets, a lot of the injury problems would sort themselves out quickly. The plastic and foam armor players wear throughout high school and college enables players to develop bad habits and take dangerous risks with little outward effect. Minor injuries would increase, probably cutting some careers short, but the kids looking for a pro career would adjust their behavior to be better at staying healthy, not just getting bigger and faster. Also, if a guy got his bell rung on a play and got knocked out of the game, it would be an obvious and increasingly rare thing, not dozens of small car crashes accumulating each game over a career.

[Buttons12]

He looks better suited to basketball.

Why isn’t football broken into categories like wrestling? Bantamweights, heavyweights.

They should do something about the shape of that ball, too.

[FrankR]

In the current situation with public opinion of the Trumps, he would be a target for the other players to try to hurt, badly.

[fso301]

Basically, you want your child to succeed. Part of that desire is to steer them into sports they are built for. If your son isn’t built for football, find a more suitable sport.

[kabar]

Football is not a game for pussies. There is the risk of injury in almost every sport. Many on the Left would like to outlaw football. They think it is too violent and encourages toxic masculinity.

“On the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that on other days, and on other fields will bear the fruits of victory.” General Douglas MacArthur.

[jocon307]

Barron is a wonderful lad I’m sure, but he doesn’t strike me as football material. My daughter was sad that #1 son seemed to lack athletic ability, but #2 is a real brawler, so I said: look here’s your linebacker!