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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's taken me a long time to get here, but I agree OP.
My son has wanted to play tackle football since he was 6. I always said no due to safety/concussion concerns and don't even get me going on my feminist tirade of the NFL.
We put him (and our daughter) into flag football. He grew his love of the sport and has continued to ask about playing tackle. Here we are, he's in 7th grade, just went to the pediatrician for his annual check up and he's in the 97th percentile size wise for his age. He asked again if he could do the school football team and I said yes. Part of it is to give him the chance to do it before the stakes are too high. He has his primary sport that he excels in, and is part of his long term goal (playing in college, etc). But the social and emotional impact of being on the football team with his friends I believe will pay dividends, and he's already having a blast. 
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Above all sports, football and golf teach responsibility the best.  Golf is obvious as it’s all on you.  Football makes you realize how important it is to listen, understand and do your part bc, if you don’t, someone can get crushed.  The first time a kid has to look a teammate in the eye who got smashed bc they messed up provides eye opening perspective.  [/quote]

Exactly.  I've said the same thing for years.  Different sports teach different lessons.

For example, I encourage kids to play solo sports (like, golf as you mentioned), but I always use wrestling as the best example.  It's just you.  You are either going to whooped, or you're going to whoop someone else.  It's entirely on you (that is a bit of an exaggeration but you get the point)

Football is the opposite.  It takes 11 people all doing their job together.  And you owe it to the 10 other players to do your job, and they owe it to you.  There's something special about it that's hard to find in other sports.

It becomes extra special because only people that really played understand.  Sure, the RB gets the credit for the touchdown.  But people that play see the line making the hole, the center with the clean snap, the WR with the downfield block.

RB may get into the end zone untouched; the rest of the team made that possible for them.  It's really cool when you see it start to click for the kids[/quote]
Same could be said for soccer....[/quote]

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