Also, violent ground acquisition games such as football is in fact a crypto-fascist metaphor for nuclear war.
Posted on 08/28/2014 2:25:24 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Parents are worried about their children playing football, but most haven’t decided to keep their kids from putting on a helmet and stepping onto the field.
According to an Associated Press-GfK poll, nearly half of parents said they’re not comfortable letting their child play football amid growing uncertainty about the long-term impact of concussions.
In the poll, 44 percent of parents weren’t comfortable with their child playing football. The same percentage was uncomfortable with ice hockey, and 45 percent were uncomfortable with participation in wrestling. Only five percent, though, said they have discouraged their child from playing in the last two years as concern over head injuries has increased at all levels of the game.
The majority of parents said they are comfortable with participation in a host of other sports—including swimming, track and field, basketball, soccer, baseball and softball, among others. …
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We didnt’ even need a football to play this. One person would be it, then whoever tackled him would be “it” after that.
I suspect you recanted once you read my history. While young men of my generation played kid games, I fought for my country in a year and half of real warfare. I spent a year in the hospital healing up enough to walk again.
It’s my choice if I don’t want my children’s brains damaged in school sports. It’s their choice whether they choose to join the Marines like I did.
Nothing more pathetic than those guys who spend their lives reliving school football.
I think the problem is the helmet. I am uncomfortable with youth football because the adults do not seem to have common sense anymore. My male peers who played football when we were elementary aged played flag football. They started tackle football in junior high. They played in September to November. Now they start in August and seem to think that a five year old is becoming tough by wearing full gear with helmets for three hours straight in the August sun. The helmets are designed to be “safe” except for the oven factor because they are so full of stuff to prevent cracking heads that there is no air flow inside. It is too much trouble to take helmets off the young ones, so they make them keep them on. Crazy!
Anywho, helmets do not do anything for what happens inside the skull. And idiots cannot see any boo boos on the outside because the fancy helmets have protected the head from cracking open. But the inside damage still happens.
Back in the 60s, we called the game "Kill the Guy with the Ball." This may explain my passion for rugby.
Well...The military and football scholarships have opened many doors in my family. It is sad to see the left slowly destroy both our military and our favorite past time.
My mom was not comfortable with it four decades ago.
Did not stop me from playing (or at least sitting on the bench).
And they are also comfortable with field hockey and volleyball, no doubt.
Meanwhile, in Texas 1200 high school teams will take the field tomorrow night. That’s one of the things that makes Texas great.
I have been against the helmets for all these reasons. But most especially this reason. I did enough dumb things on my bike, skateboards, etc without a helmet and elbow pads. I think wearing all that stuff would have made me feel safe to do even stupider things.
Pain is there for a reason. It says STOP!
Beheaded is a future they are comfortable with however.
A couple of weeks past and we were back out in the front yard playing football again. Our parents didn't discourage it, no one help hard feelings even the boys parents, it was just accepted as part of life. Bad things sometimes happen. We had no helmets etc. This was in the early 1970's.
Todays gear for players on teams makes it reasonably safe much more so than sandlot was in our time. Our parents understood kids did things that had risk but it was stuff that built confidence and character. Our parents had rules and boundaries we had to abide in but at the same time that is what made it safer for us to do things kids today can not experience.
At 14 I was camping alone with boat, motor, and rifle on the lake in the summer. Today that would get a parent a CPS visit or some pervert bother the kid. It seems to be a purposely making kids into compliant wimps as the prevailing agenda so called experts now promote.
And 20 years from now, society will be uncomfortable defending itself from attack. We are doomed.
And they get to sue for money later on, as long as there's no statue of limitations!
There are plenty of other team sports available that involve damaging their futures
...and there is one in particular which has found great favor withe the gender-equity bunch which has hijacked youth formation in our culture, and is pushed with fervor and almost religious zeal...soccer...
...this is so obviously a femininist derived push to minimize athletic discrepancies between boys and girls, and yet, even here on a traditional minded forum such FR entire threads are dedicated to following the progress of World Cup games...quite amusing...and the names one gets called for merely expressing a negative thought about the crappy game...yeesh...
Why the discrepancy?
Easy, football gives one set of parents BRAGGING RIGHTS over the non-football parents. Worth a bunch of concussions and early-onset old-timers disease, I guess, to most of those parents.
...ah, the beauty of online fora...they afford the opportunity to post utter nonsense...as witnessed by the above...
Also, violent ground acquisition games such as football is in fact a crypto-fascist metaphor for nuclear war.
Politics...left,right or center...shouldn't enter into this.
Yeah...We called it “Pitch Up and Smear”....
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Exactly. My sister has two boys (I have two girls who both do karate and one is a black belt) who play hockey and football. The older one got a concussion playing hockey and missed a couple weeks of school. They both still play but she is definitely not “comfortable” with it exactly because of the concussion issue.
Far more kids die or get critically injured in MVA's yet no one bats an eye. Yes I'm a parent who has received one of those calls. I went to the scene of the wreck as they started cutting my daughter out. Six months later after the surgeries etc she was driving again.
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