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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do some research- CTE is not just a problem with football. It’s pervasive in soccer, hockey, basketball, (lacrosse - TBD). Do you really not let your kids play any of those sports?
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This.  A lot of the anti-football sentiment is just classism (and honestly, a little raciscm).

People who have never attended a youth football practice talk about how dangerous it is, but sign their children up for hockey or lacross or softball, where head injuries can also occur.

They don't like football bc they associate with Red countries and bigotry.

But here's the truth: any sport that has athletes sharing space and running at top speed has risk for injury.

And the other truth they don't want to hear: football is the absolute BEST way to get your child exposed to other kids, cultures and races.  My son's baseball team is 100% white.  His basketball team had 3 AA boys.

His football team:  too many different cultures and races to count: Latin, AA, Asian, White.

Half the people on this board think its either a poor person's sport or a racist redneck sport.  It is neither.  It is a wonderful way for boys to get exercise, build character, and grow friendships[/quote]

You are completely ignorant.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/new-87-deceased-nfl-players-test-positive-for-brain-disease/

96% of NFL players and 79% of all football players examined have CTE (WHICH IS NOT A CONCUSSION). If your kid plays football for any length of time, he will probably develop CTE.

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Did you even read the article or the study?  If that’s what you got out of it, you should try to read it again more critically.  What someone did was study a group of people who were exhibiting signs of CTE and then prove that a certain percentage of them actually had CTE. That’s like saying out of 100 people who have symptoms of heart disease, 95 of them actually have heart disease. Not a big surprise.

They had no control group. They did no analysis of the number of football players that didn’t exhibit symptoms, etc. it was really a horrible study and was picked up by the media to prove that football was bad. And a lot of dumb people fell for it. [/quote]

People will believe what they want to believe

jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2787601?utm_source=For_The_Media&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ftm_links&utm_term=123021

Saying no to football makes them feel like good parents, but they refuse to admit that saying yes to the other sports carries a similar risk profile.

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DP. It's not the same risk profile across sports, though. And science and medicine don't yet know why some people get CTE while others who engaged in the same activity don't. You're unlikely to ever have a control group for any CTE study any time soon because it would mean that healthy people would need to donate their brains when they die. But that doesn't mean it's "denial" or a bad study that should be ignored. Head injuries and CTE among football players aren't new problems.

It's not about making ourselves feel like "good parents" by saying no. [b]The potential risk of serious brain damage isn't worth it[/b] for a lot of families.  You don't know if your kid will be fine or if his brain will get rattled one too many times playing football and end up with a host of issues by the time he's 20. [/quote]

The denial comes in when they think they are doing anything substantial to really reduce the risk by making the kid play soccer instead of football.

Yes, a very slight reduction in risk.  But marginal.

A lot of the anti-football sentiment is really against the culture, but disguised as concerns about 'safety.'

And in reality, the culture of football is amongst the best and most welcoming.  I would put it at the top of the list.  And competitive baseball at the bottom

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