[Tupelo]

“You think they should make football illegal?”

I think parents should think real hard about allowing their kids to to play the ‘game’.
I still carry scars and endure pain from a football injury when I was 17.

[mewzilla]

The same parents who might have been telling their adult sons in the NFL to get vaxxed in order to keep the gravy train chugging along...?

I wonder how many might have done that.

[nickcarraway]

So, you wouldn’t let your child play football?

[alternatives?]

“I still carry scars and endure pain from a football injury when I was 17.”

I have heard other former high school football players says the same thing. In addition, there has been a steady increase in player size which will make the current injuries more severe than in the past. You add in coaches who are re-living their glory days and a parent should think long and hard about it.

[LouieFisk]

“I still carry scars and endure pain from a football injury when I was 17.”
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Sorry to hear that, but I expect anybody going into a sport where much of the game is spent in bodies slamming into each other understands they are likely to become hurt and/or possibly injured.