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[quote=Anonymous]IMO, you hear more about concussions and long-term brain injuries from football, but my kid plays on a competitive travel soccer team and those kids are freakin' brutal, man.  I don't want it to sound like a 'my sport is better than yours' thing, but I've seen two kids running full speed crash into each other so hard that it's audible on the sidelines.  Zero pads, really, and definitely no head protection.

I've always been very scared about ice hockey in the way that other parents are scared of football.  My best friend's brother when we were in HS was so good at hockey that he was recruited by private HS to come play for them on scholarship.  His Jr. year he took a header into the boards and was instantly paralyzed from mid-chest down.  The whole thing was caught on tape (actual VHS back then) and watching it was just chilling.  I was at my college's men's hockey game one year and a player got rammed with his body twisted to the side.  When the other player moved from squishing him against the boards, he just crumpled to the ice.  We all thought for sure he was going to be paralyzed, but it ended up being a pinched nerve, I think.  He never played again and still had tingling fingers the last I heard, about 2 years after the accident.      [/quote]

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