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This is why mine are only playing flag. Prayers to his family.
This is why mine are only playing flag. Prayers to his family.
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http://www.wral.com/news/state/story/1931716/
This is why mine are only playing flag. Prayers to his family.
It is my nightmare that something would happen to my son that handicaps him or kills him by playing football, but we can't live our lives afraid of everything.
My son has played football since the second grade. He is now in high school football, 10th grade. If I had ever told him he couldn't play, that would be like cutting his heart out of his chest. He has planned to play college ball, then NFL all of his life.
Youth football players are safer than youth soccer players.
This is because football players are padded and helmeted up and are taught how to hit and expect to be hit. It is a prepared battle. In soccer contact is not intended but it happens and that results in head injuries
Think of the zillions of kids that play football and how few fatalities and injuries there are.
My kids all played football and have not had any injuries at all. Amraan if your friends kids are constantly injured and have broken bones from football ..that is about the equipment and most importantly the coaching. These kids are not hitting properly or taught to defend.That is just wrong.I would get out of that league immediately because the coaching is inferior.
Few facts regarding youth football:
• Organized football among 5 – 15 year-olds has 12 percent fewer injuries per capita than organized soccer in the same age rangehttp://www.popwarner.com/football/footballsafety.asp
• Organized football among 5 – 15 year-olds has 50 percent fewer injuries per capita than bicycle riding in the same age range.
• Organized football among 5 – 15 year-olds has 74 percent fewer injuries per capita than skateboarding in the same age group.
http://kidsclubs.about.com/b/a/000026.htm
If I am not mistaken most sports injuries are more about repetitive movement.
I totally agree with this, too. All 3 of my boys played football, from age 7 through high school, and one of them played in college. None of my boys ever had a football injury and I saw only a few minor injuries of other team members in all the years they played.Wow I really have to agree with this JBean. Both my sons played from Pop Warner and Junior All American all the way through senior year in High School. Most of the time they played both ways, offense and defense. Broken bones and concussions were so rare on any of those teams that it was really a big deal when it ever happened and thankfully only one of my sons had an injury, a sprained wrist in high school.
But this year, with the girlfriend and needing better grades for University, he declined to play, but considered Rugby, which apparently is worse then Football.
We had a player drop dead during summer practice. I am not saying injuries and fatalities do not happen, they just don't happen very often.There is a 17-year-old high school player who attends the same high school as my son who is recovering from a coma from a hit he took during a high school game last month. The coaches and doctors have reviewed tapes of the game and have no idea how he ended up with a life-threatening brain injury.