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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Those are horrible.

But I've been involved in 3 youth football programs, and attended literally thousands of practices in the area.  I've never seen that done at a local practice.

I have seen one coach dismissed for teaching bad form.  He was told his kid could stay but he could not.  Unsurprisingly, he did not let his kid continue.[/quote]

Oh plesse, they have repeated collisions at almost every practice.  Drills like these are very common:

[youtube]https://youtu.be/L32tmQ4hpdE?si=1FsBVBi_F3XcRB8m[/youtube]

Every single one of those collisions is like taking a jab punch or worse to the head.  Over the course of playing multiple seasons kids will be exposed to hundreds and thousands of those kinds of hits that rattle the brain every time.  There is no amount of 'proper form' that can protect against it, because even using proper form and the most advanced paddding/helmets possible still rattles the brain.  It's basic physics. Then only way to remove the risk is to get rid of tackling and hit blocking altogether.  But then you don't have football except for flag.

[b]High school kids are getting Mohammed Ali brains by the time they graduate[/b]. [/quote]

[b]I tell people all the time.  If you're in a discussion, and you think you are right, be sure to avoid hyperbole.  It makes it too easy to dismiss you.[/b]

And FYI:  my son's football team was incredibly successful (#1 seed, league champs), practiced 4 days a week (one was film study) and they were no-contact/no hitting from October on.

There was a lot of hitting in August.  But once they got their legs back, it was no hitting in practice.  To avoid injury.

There are good programs; there are bad programs.  Parents need to do the leg work to find the right ones[/quote]

Sure Tom, whatever helps you sleep at night while knowingly signing up your kids for brain damaging activities.  [/quote]

This. I can't stand the way these dads rationalize this.

The parents in the film who said they wouldn't change a thing are selfish pricks. They love football for themselves and the adulation it gave them being the parents of these players.  The parents chose the sport for their kid. They are lying if they say otherwise. I've seen it dozens of times.

Their kid's words were very clear about the pain and horror their lives had become. They were terrified enough to kill themselves but yet their parents would still have them playing?  Talk about ignoring everything the kids were trying to tell their parents in their letters and videos. How dare they dishonor and ignore what their children were trying to tell them. These lousy parents loved football more than their kids. The hell that their children's lives became meant absolutely sh*t to them.  I hate the dad who proudly proclaimed his grandsons are in contact football too. Atkins said he let his kids choose. We know that's a joke. The parents set the kids on the path. What young kid should be responsible for making the decision about whether they want to risk cte?

Don't argue back about being part of the "nanny state".  [/quote]

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