This is a vane attempt to back door America with the other “footbal”soccor. What do you think would happen if they outlaw football? Talk about revolution!
“What do you think would happen if they outlaw football? “
If MSM first spent a decade talking nothing but injuries, concussions, medical costs, and egregious human suffering, plus grossly overpaid people, most Americans would give football up.
They can’t just turn it off, there is too much money (above and below the table) being moved.
I sense the hands of the progressive movement here. Someone wins if someone else loses, high salaries, people looked up to as heroes, safety issues- all things the Left wants to change.
Surprisingly, there was not any reference to soccer in the article or any attempt to indicate that any particular sport would or should “replace” football.
Soccer is very much a socailist type sport. Will never catch on like football, even if football were to suffer greatly from concussions.
Wasn’t there a study recently that showed that soccer players can develop minor (but significant) brain damage from repeated heading of the ball, like a much less severe version of boxers becoming punch-drunk?
In any case, there’s still too much leading with the head in football tackling. If you look at sports like Australian rules football and rugby league or union, sports where they wear basically no padding and still have some truly horrendous hits and collisions, they somehow have fewer injuries. They don’t lead with their heads, they lead with their shoulders; and also, the players aren’t roided-up 290-pound monstrosities. They’re often big, but not freakish to the levels of an NFL lineman.
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It won’t get outlawed, it’ll just run out of players. Given the information we have today on concussions, their frequency in football and their lifetime effects, good parents are already starting to keep their kids away from youth football. If they aren’t playing football in high school and before they won’t in college and probably won’t wind up in the pros. And because the game has never taken off internationally there won’t be that influx of players.