How do parents justify letting their kids play football?

[Anonymous]

my boys play flag. this weekend we played the kids of NFL dads (boston area). I thought it was telling that these boys were playing flag while their dads are currently playing in the NFL on one of the top teams in the league. No football for our boys, even my football obsessed husband agrees.

[Anonymous]

A good friend of ours has 3 Super Bowl rings, and he doesn't have any brain injuries.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A good friend of ours has 3 Super Bowl rings, and he doesn't have any brain injuries.

How do you know that? Is he still living? CTE can only definitively be detected via autopsy.

[Anonymous]

The newest study shows the huge risk of head-butting drills for young kids playing tackle football before 12. It's not just about concussions yeah

[Anonymous]

I know a couple of HS football players with low GPAs and low SATs and football is their only ticket to college. That is the reason they play.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A good friend of ours has 3 Super Bowl rings, and he doesn't have any brain injuries.

Did he buy the rings from dead players estates?

[Anonymous]

We don't let our kids play contact sports, just basketball and baseball. They are smart and we care.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:People with any sense have always known it was stupid to play football. My mom knew this back in the 70s.

+100

My older brother was beyond pissed my parents wouldn't him play football in the early 80s.

Soccer was a sissy sport for boys he was told--but at 6'3 could kick most people's ass that said that. He ended up full-ride, all-American and a pro-career--ad a CTE-free brain.

Okay, I'm a huge soccer fan, played in college, and will definitely let my kids play (but not American football), but soccer isn't exactly safe either. There's been research coming out that repeated heading is bad for brains too. They are preventing kids from doing it until a certain age. Might explain why I don't seem quite as smart as I was when I was young...

Thank you soccer is just as unsafe as football.

Most concussions are full on head to head hits with no protection.

Most body contact is without the benefit of pads.

So many injuries in soccer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We don't let our kids play contact sports, just basketball and baseball. They are smart and we care.

They also must be young if you are unaware of the dangers of playing basketball and baseball.

I know 1 boy with 5 concussions in basketball and a kid who had his eye socket crushed in baseball.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We don't let our kids play contact sports, just basketball and baseball. They are smart and we care.

They also must be young if you are unaware of the dangers of playing basketball and baseball.

I know 1 boy with 5 concussions in basketball and a kid who had his eye socket crushed in baseball.

some parents are just idiots.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:People with any sense have always known it was stupid to play football. My mom knew this back in the 70s.

+100

My older brother was beyond pissed my parents wouldn't him play football in the early 80s.

Soccer was a sissy sport for boys he was told--but at 6'3 could kick most people's ass that said that. He ended up full-ride, all-American and a pro-career--ad a CTE-free brain.

Okay, I'm a huge soccer fan, played in college, and will definitely let my kids play (but not American football), but soccer isn't exactly safe either. There's been research coming out that repeated heading is bad for brains too. They are preventing kids from doing it until a certain age. Might explain why I don't seem quite as smart as I was when I was young...

Thank you soccer is just as unsafe as football.

Most concussions are full on head to head hits with no protection.

Most body contact is without the benefit of pads.

So many injuries in soccer.

Those lawsuits are coming soon.

[Anonymous]

With the promise of fame and fortune, people will always flock to play it.

[Anonymous]

The truth of the matter is that parents who have talented athletes have a hard time saying no to their passionate sons who LOVE the game and want to play so badly. I have a friend who said she would never let her son play, but it turns out he is supper talented at the game and now she is letting him do it.

Keep in mind there are pretty high concussion rates in other sports like hockey, lacrosse, wrestling.

Glad my honors student with a 4.1 GPA is not much of an athlete. His extra curriculars are more artistically based (theater, music, etc.), but he manages to get enough exercise to stay in shape playing rec sports and swimming in the summer. I feel bad for the jocks who have to rely on their sport to gain access to a good school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A good friend of ours has 3 Super Bowl rings, and he doesn't have any brain injuries.

you mean your good dead friend who clearly was a bench warmer.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People with any sense have always known it was stupid to play football. My mom knew this back in the 70s.

+100

My older brother was beyond pissed my parents wouldn't him play football in the early 80s.

Soccer was a sissy sport for boys he was told--but at 6'3 could kick most people's ass that said that. He ended up full-ride, all-American and a pro-career--ad a CTE-free brain.

Okay, I'm a huge soccer fan, played in college, and will definitely let my kids play (but not American football), but soccer isn't exactly safe either. There's been research coming out that repeated heading is bad for brains too. They are preventing kids from doing it until a certain age. Might explain why I don't seem quite as smart as I was when I was young...

Thank you soccer is just as unsafe as football.

Most concussions are full on head to head hits with no protection.

Most body contact is without the benefit of pads.

So many injuries in soccer.

Those lawsuits are coming soon.

The soccer lawsuits are already here. Same with lacrosse, field hockey, ice hockey, basketball, softball, baseball, wrestling, track and field and even golf. But I'd say, outside of professional sports, that amateur/collegiate soccer players are suing second only to football. And I know of what I speak; I'm a lawyer who has worked almost exclusively on professional and collegiate concussion lawsuits for the past five years.