How many deaths and injuries in football? How many deaths and injuries from automobile accidents? (50,000?). Football isn’t even showing as an outlier statistically when comparing the two. But the mommies don’t think twice about putting their kid in a car . I’m tired of people magnifying trivia and deeming it important. It makes news, but not sense.
Statistically, once you adjust for the extremely small population of football players to the almost universal number of people who either drive or ride in cars, you will find that football is still going to come out looking pretty dangerous.
Using your logic, shooting up heroin is relatively safe, as only around 150,000 overdoses show up in emergency rooms, compared to the 2.5m automobile related injuries that are treated in emergency rooms. Does that make heroin safer than driving? Of course not. The size of the populations are not comparable.