Is it time to get rid of high school football?

[Anonymous]

Sad story about a football player in Georgia who died after a head injury. How can parents continue to let their kids play this dangerous sport?

https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/01/health/georgia-high-school-football-player-dies/index.html

[Anonymous]

Which sports do you feel good about, OP?

[Anonymous]

There was also the college player on Saturday who collapsed on the sidelines during the game and had to be rushed for emergency brain surgery.

Bad week for football.

[Anonymous]

I don’t know about eliminating it completely, but maybe more rules changes are needed, and not just in football. Think about hockey, lacrosse, soccer, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t know about eliminating it completely, but maybe more rules changes are needed, and not just in football. Think about hockey, lacrosse, soccer, etc.

Exactly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sad story about a football player in Georgia who died after a head injury. How can parents continue to let their kids play this dangerous sport?

https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/01/health/georgia-high-school-football-player-dies/index.html

Or let them drive when they are 16?

[Anonymous]

With the current climate, we all know where this would be going if you eliminate football--it'll be spun as yet another political conspiracy one way (Southern heritage) or the other (black suppression).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t know about eliminating it completely, but maybe more rules changes are needed, and not just in football. Think about hockey, lacrosse, soccer, etc.

Exactly.

Or cheerleading. I believe cheerleading has the most catastrophic sports injuries at the high school level and a reputation (so take that for what it is worth) for under reported brain trauma because many young women don’t want to stop.

[Anonymous]

It may die out on its own, I've been reading of schools who can't field teams.

My oldest DS played HS football ten years ago, but now that I'm much more aware of the issues, my younger one isn't playing. He knew not even to ask. Lacrosse is the big growing sport now, it seems.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t know about eliminating it completely, but maybe more rules changes are needed, and not just in football. Think about hockey, lacrosse, soccer, etc.

Exactly.

Or cheerleading. I believe cheerleading has the most catastrophic sports injuries at the high school level and a reputation (so take that for what it is worth) for under reported brain trauma because many young women don’t want to stop.

But it is no big deal if you cut basket tosses and pyramids out of cheerleading.

[Anonymous]

Things need to change but I don't think getting rid of football is it.

Here is an article about reducing concussions in the Ivy league with a rule change.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/02/sports/ncaafootball/ivy-league-football-concussions.html

Google "ivy reduce concussions" if you can't read NYT.

Also, no NFL players die during games or practice. But HS and college players do, why? Because the coaches suck, we need coaches to be well trained and regulated and when harsh/unhealthy treatment is obvious there is a way to report it.

People have reported coaches and the school has said, they are contract employees and don't fall under the code of conduct of teachers... that is BS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Things need to change but I don't think getting rid of football is it.

Here is an article about reducing concussions in the Ivy league with a rule change.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/02/sports/ncaafootball/ivy-league-football-concussions.html

Google "ivy reduce concussions" if you can't read NYT.

Also, no NFL players die during games or practice. But HS and college players do, why? Because the coaches suck, we need coaches to be well trained and regulated and when harsh/unhealthy treatment is obvious there is a way to report it.

People have reported coaches and the school has said, they are contract employees and don't fall under the code of conduct of teachers... that is BS.

While coaching/trainers is definitely cause, this is also in the context that the physical size disparity in HS versus the disparity in the NFL. In the NFL, it's "fair game" for a defensive tackle to tackle a running back; while on the HS level, if you're talking about a defensive tackle that already has the chops of an elite athlete to make it to the college level versus an average joe running back...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Things need to change but I don't think getting rid of football is it.

Here is an article about reducing concussions in the Ivy league with a rule change.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/02/sports/ncaafootball/ivy-league-football-concussions.html

Google "ivy reduce concussions" if you can't read NYT.

Also, no NFL players die during games or practice. But HS and college players do, why? Because the coaches suck, we need coaches to be well trained and regulated and when harsh/unhealthy treatment is obvious there is a way to report it.

People have reported coaches and the school has said, they are contract employees and don't fall under the code of conduct of teachers... that is BS.

While coaching/trainers is definitely cause, this is also in the context that the physical size disparity in HS versus the disparity in the NFL. In the NFL, it's "fair game" for a defensive tackle to tackle a running back; while on the HS level, if you're talking about a defensive tackle that already has the chops of an elite athlete to make it to the college level versus an average joe running back...

Actually, the PP is correct. More high school and college players die of heart attacks and other forms of exhaustion than from injury caused by playing; this does not happen in the NFL, because the NFL long ago absorbed the lessons of proper hydration and rest periods. The Marines even do this, ffs. And yet we still see 2-a-days and -puking-is-good coaching on the high school and college level.

[Anonymous]

No it's time to get rid of drinking OP. More people die from drunk drivers. Don't pick on football...it's the only way to college for a lot of blacks and whites alike.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Things need to change but I don't think getting rid of football is it.

Here is an article about reducing concussions in the Ivy league with a rule change.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/02/sports/ncaafootball/ivy-league-football-concussions.html

Google "ivy reduce concussions" if you can't read NYT.

Also, no NFL players die during games or practice. But HS and college players do, why? Because the coaches suck, we need coaches to be well trained and regulated and when harsh/unhealthy treatment is obvious there is a way to report it.

People have reported coaches and the school has said, they are contract employees and don't fall under the code of conduct of teachers... that is BS.

I'm interested in reading more about this. As for lacrosse, I'm aware of at least one player in my son's league who had a concussion from lacrosse.