Why isn’t youth football a big sport around here?
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Anonymous
THIS. So glad someone pointed it out. |
Anonymous
Lots of sports are equally or more dangerous than football. Cheerleading, gymnastics, basketball, boxing, skateboarding, hockey, equestrian... |
Anonymous
Can you name any equally dangerous sport? Statistically, only other comparably dangerous sport is cheerleading and that is also almost dead in this area. |
Anonymous
Cheerleading, boxing & skateboarding aren’t really a thing around here. |
Anonymous
Of course they are. Maybe not boxing, but cheerleading absolutely is. And most towns have skateboarding parks. |
Anonymous
Lacrosse has the same rate of concussions. Hockey has 50% more. Basketball has the most injuries overall. Far more than football. |
Anonymous
How many schools around here offer skateboarding, hockey and equestrian? Cheerleading and gymnastics aren't even remotely popular (nor are hockey and equestrian for that matter) in this area. I'd love to see what status you have for basketball being as dangerous as football. I'm still waiting to here what equally dangerous sports people around here are having their kids to |
Anonymous
Also this: " new study, published in the journal Pediatrics, found that girls who play high school soccer are at nearly the same risk for traumatic brain injuries as boys who play high school football" https://www.forbes.com/sites/kimelsesser/2019/11/07/the-concussion-gender-gap-why-girls-suffer-more-head-injuries/?sh=5a2f4e026937 But meanwhile, DCUM has a whole forum dedicated to soccer. The hate on youth tackle football is rooted in classism and racism, lets be honest. The posts on this thread prove it. People say they are "too educated" to let their kids play, and that the tackle football isn't really a thing in the DMV (go check out Saturday afternoons in PG county; youth football is doing great there), but they really mean that they don't want to associate with either poor white or black people. And then they drive to their soccer tournaments where little Larla has virtually the same risk |
Anonymous
How many competitive cheerleading studios exist in NOVA? |
Anonymous
How many of those girls ended up with CTE? |
Anonymous
If you limit your definition of "severe" to only injuries to the brain, then basketball isnt close. But if you expand the definition of severe to other parts of the body, basketball becomes very dangerous. Basketball actually results in the most visits to the ER https://www.healthgrades.com/right-care/sports-medicine/7-sports-most-likely-to-cause-injuries |
Anonymous
Who knows? How many youth football players will end up with CTE? We also don't know that, given the changes to helmets/safe tackling that have been implemented in the last 10 years. The point isn't whether football is dangerous; it very clearly is. The point is that the smug parents that condemn football families but let their daughters play soccer should probably take a moment to reflect. The difference in risk is not as great as they like to tell themselves |
Anonymous
At least a dozen or so? Twisters, Stingray, Cheer Extreme, ADC All Starz.... |
Anonymous
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Anyone remember when we were finally going to find out how bad football was?
https://www.wired.com/2017/02/nfl-concussions-accelerometer/ Unsurprisingly, no one wants to know. Other sports like soccer happily track as much physiological data as they can possibly get on their athletes, but football teams are terrified to know |
Anonymous
Even so, cheerleading is not as dangerous as football. The point of football (& boxing of course, but that's not really a youth sport) is to hit the other person on the team. If you hit hard, tackle hard, block hard, then you are playing well. Competitive cheerleading is taught in a way to avoid injuries. My daughter is a flyer, and has never had a a concussion. Twisted ankles and pulled muscles are far more common, and easy to recover from. |