Why isn’t youth football a big sport around here?

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It's not the CTEs. Other sports are far more dangerous. It's the douche bag culture.

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Anonymous wrote:It's not the CTEs. Other sports are far more dangerous. It's the douche bag culture.

Just out of curiosity, what programs did your son play for that had that culture?

Bc ours have been great. Community-focused, charitable, and a focus on teamwork.

This has been over the course of 3 different programs.

There's only been one that I've seen that has been bad (and I'll name them: the Olney program has some real d-bag coaches)

But every other one that we've either been a part of, or faced, has been some of the best coaches and attitudes we've encountered across all of sports

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Anonymous wrote:Our kids prefer other sports.

Soccer, lacrosse, rugby…

Rugby is pretty dangerous, too, no?

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Anonymous wrote:Because we are an incredibly educated community and we know that CTE is real and want our kids to have a future.

This.

Both of my parents are from poor southern states (KY, AL) and came to the DC area for college. All of my cousins live in the south and their kids start football at age 3 down there. I've talked with my cousins about this and they simply don't believe "the CTE hype."

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Anonymous wrote:People around here think football is for poor people. They cite CTE and concussions while driving their kids to equally dangerous sports.

THIS. So glad someone pointed it out.

Can you name any equally dangerous sport? Statistically, only other comparably dangerous sport is cheerleading and that is also almost dead in this area.

While I wouldn't say equally dangerous, I do know kids who have gotten concussions playing lacrosse and basketball.

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Anonymous wrote:People around here think football is for poor people. They cite CTE and concussions while driving their kids to equally dangerous sports.

like what?

Lots of sports are equally or more dangerous than football. Cheerleading, gymnastics, basketball, boxing, skateboarding, hockey, equestrian...

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

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

Seems to be a lot of foot / ankle injuries w basketball.

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Because people here are educated and know that it’s stupid to subject their kids to head injuries for no reason.

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Anonymous wrote:Because people here are educated and know that it’s stupid to subject their kids to head injuries for no reason.

Yup, this is why girls soccer is basically non-existent in the DMV.

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Anonymous wrote:Our kids prefer other sports.

Soccer, lacrosse, rugby…

Rugby is pretty dangerous, too, no?

It is - but what I find interesting is that football is now teaching the "rugby tackle" because it is safer:

https://vimeo.com/302466442

Not many people realize this but American football evolved from Rugby - it's counter-intuitive but if American football "devolved" back to it's roots and got rid of the pads and helmets, the risk of CTE and long-term brain health issues would be reduced.

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My sister has had her son (now a 5th grader) playing football for several years. She is now involved in the leadership program and put her DD in cheerleading so they could all coordinate and be in the same place. They are in north central MD.

I don’t get it, esp since we have extended family dealing with long term issues from concussion injuries sustained from football. But she gets rabid about it, posting when her kids team goes to their “Super Bowl.”

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All I can say is, when 6th know better, you do better.

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Anonymous wrote:People around here think football is for poor people. They cite CTE and concussions while driving their kids to equally dangerous sports.

THIS. So glad someone pointed it out.

Can you name any equally dangerous sport? Statistically, only other comparably dangerous sport is cheerleading and that is also almost dead in this area.

While I wouldn't say equally dangerous, I do know kids who have gotten concussions playing lacrosse and basketball.

I type this as a parent whose kid played tackle football in high school...it isn't just getting "concussions" but particularly for linemen, it is the small contact that happens on every play that cause damage. Yes, kids in other sports get concussions, but few other sports have that kind of soft head contact that causes damage like football.

My kid was told one and done with any concussions and fortunately he didn't experience one, though he did have a lot of headaches when he was playing.

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Anonymous wrote:People around here think football is for poor people. They cite CTE and concussions while driving their kids to equally dangerous sports.

THIS. So glad someone pointed it out.

Can you name any equally dangerous sport? Statistically, only other comparably dangerous sport is cheerleading and that is also almost dead in this area.

While I wouldn't say equally dangerous, I do know kids who have gotten concussions playing lacrosse and basketball.

I type this as a parent whose kid played tackle football in high school...it isn't just getting "concussions" but particularly for linemen, it is the small contact that happens on every play that cause damage. Yes, kids in other sports get concussions, but few other sports have that kind of soft head contact that causes damage like football.

My kid was told one and done with any concussions and fortunately he didn't experience one, though he did have a lot of headaches when he was playing.

What position was your son playing?

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Anonymous wrote: Come to Vienna. It’s huge here too. You will find your people.

Ha! 22180 here and was just going to post same - we didn’t encourage DS to play football because DH didn’t play youth football. Concerned about head injuries. Figured that if DS wanted to play football, he could walk on freshman year at JMHS. By that time, he was solidly invested in other sports.

DS plans intramural flag football at college.

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It’s not the 80’s anymore

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I don’t follow the distinction between football and lacrosse, where kids are really physical and whacking at each other with sticks. I get people who allow neither, but drawing a line between the two doesn’t add up.