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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Tell me on what sane planet a sport like this is good for kids:

[youtube]https://youtu.be/S-YwoVk-46Q?si=Fi-mWe_5ob8fV7ze[/youtube]

You can argue about team sport involvement and physical activity all you want, but the above is what you don’t see that occurs constantly during practices all the time even to this day.  The clip at 1:15 n the video is horrifying.

Plenty of other sports like swimming, track, golf, baseball, basketball, tennis, etc. exist.[/quote]

I wont let my son play tackle football but he literally is only interested in high contact sports. He wants to wrestle and play rugby, soccer, and football. We have him enrolled in swimming, we have done basketball and tennis but no real interest from it. And the thing is - he is good at the sports he likes, thats why he likes them. He wants to score. We didnt encourage that and we arent a hoo-rah family- he wants to be on a team and he wants to score. He does not like individual events so far. The exception is wrestling but he is basically a domesticated honey badger so that fits. While wrestling, soccer, and rugby are higher concussive events they dont have the collision aspect that football does so we have let him know that he will not be allowed to play tackle football.

The decision for football for me is cut and dry because of the repetitive and cumulative sub concussive events illuminated in the article but I am conflicted about other contact sports as well. I think this can be an easier decision for parents with kids who arent into sports, or are into individual sports, or have less interest in contact sports. With that said, most parents assume that it wont happen to their kid.

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