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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The only people they’ve tested for CTE had CTE, and everyone knew it already. Don’t get me wrong, football is dangerous and CTE is a real risk, but not everyone who plays football gets it. A kid who plays high school football and doesn’t go on to play college and pro is not likely to develop CTE.[/quote]

Wrong. 1000% wrong.

They've done autopsies of kids in high school who died and who played football. They shockingly have found CTE plaques in high school football players who've never been diagnosed with a concussion. IIRC, the one high school player had a brain that looked like he was in his 40s or whatever.

Many kids who play high school football have probably played since peewee.  They have multiple practices per week, games, and for years on end.  By the time they're in high school they've already recieved thousands of hits to the head.

Football is basically MMA.  Yeah, you won't get knocked out 99% of the time, but every time you run into someone, block, or tackle, it is like taking a jab to the head in boxing or MMA. Those thousands of small insults to the brain and head add up over time due to years and years of practices and games.  Just look at Muhammad Ali. He almost never got KO'd, but all those smaller hits to the head turned his brains into mush.  You're literally signing your kid up for pugilistica dementia risk when you permit them to play football.  [/quote]

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