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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wasn't sure if I had to post this on the parenting forum or sports so I ended just going with the off topic forum .Would you let your child play football at any level, pee-wee, elementary, junior, high school , college and even pro ? I just finished a FRONTLINE documentary on PBS titled LEAGUE OF DENIAL . The documentary is about four years old so some of you might have seen it already 
                There's a risk in almost anything we do in life that is true . However watching that documentary I couldn't help but wonder if the NFL would have been what it is today ( $ 9B in revenues ) had parents who ultimately greenlight their kids athletic choices known what we know today . It was sad and tragic to see men who at one point in time were our society's equivalent of gladiators end up being vegetables  unable to tie their shoe laces , fetching a bottle of water in the fridge in their 30s and 40s .

PS: it's quite the long documentary 
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_OVWSAL0EAw[/quote]

I have a 11 year old boy and with everything I know I would not let him play football under any circumstance. I have seen the documentary your talking about and more recently real sports did a segment on youth football. I suggest you Google the real sports episode and watch if it's available on you tube. It shows what is happening to young kids at football practice and it is scary. There are supposed to be restrictions and rules but they are not enforced or respected. Most of the practices are little kids doing full contact drills the whole time. People can say there are risks in everything and that is true to some extent. My son plays soccer year round and certainly risk in that. There is a big difference though between heading a soccer ball occasionally and doing football Oklahoma drills 2 hours a day every day starting at age 8. [/quote]

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