So don’t enroll your kids in it.
Simple.
The driving force behind the long-term anti-football movement are feminists. They absolutely hate the fact that women won’t play the sport and for the few that do, nobody watches unless the players are wearing lingerie.
Someday a rough & tough people will just waltz in here and take over. And we’ll deserve it.
What crap! The nanny crowd is raising woosies.
When I was in 8th grade (’56), boys would get to school about an hour early in good weather. About 30-40 boys would play ‘tackle the man with the ball’, and just as many girls would stand around to watch. For kids that age, it was sorta like proving your ‘manhood’ to others and trying to impress the girls (like birds do before mating) all at the same time.
A football would be thrown high in the air and the boy who caught it would then be chased by everyone until tackled to the ground. He would then throw the ball and everyone would chase after that ball catcher. ...Just our regular school clothes.
First class period found many boys with busted lips, bloody noses, torn shirts and lots of grass stains. No one went to the nurse’s office. The little minor boo-boos were like badges of honor.
You can recognize that an activity has a significant risk of harm without deciding to avoid it. I’m “uncomfortable” with my teenagers’ driving, but they still do it.
Just stick them in their darkened bedroom with a video game with a family size bag of potato chips and a liter of soda.../s
The question parents should ask themselves is, why am I pushing my 4 year old into every sport imaginable?
More children visit the emergency room with head trauma injuries as a result of riding bicycles, skateboards and jumping on trampolines than playing football but you don’t see the same hysteria by the media or soccer mom crowd. Definitely an agenda.
“In the poll, 44 percent of parents weren’t comfortable with their child playing football...Only five percent, though, said they have discouraged their child from playing.”
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.
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.
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.
Politics...left,right or center...shouldn't enter into this.
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As P.C. as the NFL has gotten, so what?
Youth baseball has gotten out of hand with all these travel teams and leagues. Kids are recruited, trained and cut, just like the pros. For the parents, it's mandatory travel for all the tournaments their kid is required to play in if they want to stay on the team.
Uniforms? Ha! Just the other day a friend was telling me about his young grandson who had to go to a "fitting" for his full uniform. Hell, when I played little league, all we got was a used cotton t-shirt and ball cap......LOL!
I played, and thoroughly enjoyed, youth football. Those are some of the most precious memories of my childhood.
I remember one kid in my 6th grade YMCA league, cannot recall his name. The coach put him at linebacker, but the kid was terrible. He was big enough, but he was scared to tackle anybody. He was nervous and unsure of himself. He seemed like he would have rather been home collecting stamps. One day in practice, the RB ran right at him and the kid just pushed him out of the way so as not to get run over. Coach got all over him for that.
But, before long, the kid started gaining confidence. He started believing in himself. He earned a starting position and played some good games. Then, the kid went nuts and began playing his guts out — he became a terror at linebacker, making plays all over the field. He became fearless and probably our best player on defense.
His transformation from scared kid afraid of his shadow to a mini version of Dick Butkus was fascinating to watch.
I’ve thought about that kid through the years. I know without a doubt that playing in that league was a turning point in his life.
We’re now finding out former soccer players are having problems when their careers are over as well.
Gabriel Batistuta asked doctor for legs to be CUT OFF to end agonizing pain following retirement