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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My cousin played tackle football in the Vienna area. It think the league was called Pop something. I had honestly never thought about the risk of CTE in kids sports since I didn’t have kids yet. The kids seemed to be having fun, but the injuries were common. My dad coached my brother’s soccer team so I had that comparison point.

The most disturbing part was that the coach regularly took the boys to Hooters after games.[/quote]

This is really funny, to any of us who have had sons go through the Vienna program.   VYI is one of the most impressive programs around when it comes to strict safety protocols.  I’m not sure when this was or what team you are referring to, but I never saw a lot of injuries in any of our years.  [b]As for Hooters, where is the Hooters in this area? That’s a first. I laughed out loud at that one.[/b]  If it was true, what’s wrong with the parents for driving them there?

During my son’s last year in 8th grade, he would have loved it if a coach suggested that. Nothing similar ever happened. There were some potluck tailgates after practice organized by parents but that’s about it.

Check out VYI and look at their safety protocols yourself if you live in the area.  [/quote]

The Hooters is on Rte 50 in Fairfax near 123 and it's been there for many years.[/quote]

Okay.  That’s nice to know.  The point was that coaches in Vienna are not regularly organizing team events at Hooters.  I’m am sure my son and his friends would have been talking about it if they were placed on the team who had the family potlucks while the other teams were going there.  Maybe this was one team, many years ago but I have not heard of it.  [/quote]

Oh I remember this team, some of the neighborhood kids were on it. The moms didn’t like it but they didn’t want to move their kids from a winning team over Hooters.  I think the coach was a local dentist.[/quote]

Then why didn’t they skip Hooters? Along with the potluck tailgates, our teams sometimes met up at the Vienna Inn.  We couldn’t always attend for various reasons.  It was never an issue to not go to a restaurant with the team after a game.  It’s common for families to need to get to somewhere else and there’s never a time when the whole team can be there.

All this thread is doing is making me want Hooters wings.  I tried them about 30 years ago and they really were good, if they are the same.  [/quote]

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