Is Playing HS Football worth the Risks?
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Anonymous
| Football seems to have the most head injuries of all the sports. Is it worth breaking your kids nut? |
Anonymous
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Nope.
Is anything? |
Anonymous
| Nope. Daughter of a neurologist. He says it's the one activity he absolutely wouldn't allow. |
Anonymous
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Nope. I'm a parent of a 15 year old son who begged and pleaded when he was in middle school. We shut that down. It's not worth it.
Is there anything that is not free from any danger? Of course not. But football is one where the risks don't outweigh the benefits for our family. |
Anonymous
| No! |
Anonymous
| I have two middle school boys who are nuts about football, but they are only allowed to play flag football (and they're really good at it!). Tackle football is brutal, and not just on the head and neck, but the entire body. I cannot imagine permitting my child to be mowed over by some 200 lb. kid as part of a game. I will never allow that. |
Anonymous
| NO. |
Anonymous
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No, but I have to admit I find the whole sport barbaric - rich white people paying money to watch poor black men/boys hurt themselves ritualistically?! Is this Rome?!
But check out soccer's concussion rates. By some measures, that's a more dangerous sport for heads than football. |
Anonymous
| Absolutely not worth it. I love football and enjoy watching it, but I think it'll go the way of boxing in the next 50 years. |
Anonymous
Brain Injury specialist here - hell no. |
Anonymous
| No. And I worry about soccer also. |
Anonymous
| I played football in high school in the 1980s and I never heard of anyone having any kind of brain/head injury. Is there something different about HS football now? |
Anonymous
| No. Lacrosse isa popular option. |
Anonymous
My best friend's DH is a neuroscientist and he was telling me just the other day that he would never let his kid play football. |
Anonymous
No. My oldest played all the way through his senior year of high school. This is just dcum being dcum. |