Anonymous
Post 03/16/2017 11:00     Subject: Is Playing HS Football worth the Risks?
Anonymous wrote:I played football in high school in the 1980s and I never heard of anyone having any kind of brain/head injury. Is there something different about HS football now?


No. My oldest played all the way through his senior year of high school. This is just dcum being dcum.
Anonymous
Post 03/16/2017 10:58     Subject: Is Playing HS Football worth the Risks?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Nope. Daughter of a neurologist. He says it's the one activity he absolutely wouldn't allow.


Brain Injury specialist here - hell no.


My best friend's DH is a neuroscientist and he was telling me just the other day that he would never let his kid play football.
Anonymous
Post 03/16/2017 10:55     Subject: Is Playing HS Football worth the Risks?
No. Lacrosse isa popular option.
Anonymous
Post 03/16/2017 10:52     Subject: Is Playing HS Football worth the Risks?
I played football in high school in the 1980s and I never heard of anyone having any kind of brain/head injury. Is there something different about HS football now?
Anonymous
Post 03/16/2017 10:36     Subject: Is Playing HS Football worth the Risks?
No. And I worry about soccer also.
Anonymous
Post 03/16/2017 10:25     Subject: Is Playing HS Football worth the Risks?
Anonymous wrote:Nope. Daughter of a neurologist. He says it's the one activity he absolutely wouldn't allow.


Brain Injury specialist here - hell no.
Anonymous
Post 03/16/2017 10:24     Subject: Is Playing HS Football worth the Risks?
Absolutely not worth it. I love football and enjoy watching it, but I think it'll go the way of boxing in the next 50 years.
Anonymous
Post 03/16/2017 10:23     Subject: Is Playing HS Football worth the Risks?
No, but I have to admit I find the whole sport barbaric - rich white people paying money to watch poor black men/boys hurt themselves ritualistically?! Is this Rome?!

But check out soccer's concussion rates. By some measures, that's a more dangerous sport for heads than football.
Anonymous
Post 03/16/2017 09:52     Subject: Is Playing HS Football worth the Risks?
NO.
Anonymous
Post 03/16/2017 09:50     Subject: Is Playing HS Football worth the Risks?
I have two middle school boys who are nuts about football, but they are only allowed to play flag football (and they're really good at it!). Tackle football is brutal, and not just on the head and neck, but the entire body. I cannot imagine permitting my child to be mowed over by some 200 lb. kid as part of a game. I will never allow that.
Anonymous
Post 03/16/2017 09:24     Subject: Is Playing HS Football worth the Risks?
No!
Anonymous
Post 03/16/2017 09:22     Subject: Is Playing HS Football worth the Risks?
Nope. I'm a parent of a 15 year old son who begged and pleaded when he was in middle school. We shut that down. It's not worth it.

Is there anything that is not free from any danger? Of course not. But football is one where the risks don't outweigh the benefits for our family.
Anonymous
Post 03/16/2017 09:06     Subject: Is Playing HS Football worth the Risks?
Nope. Daughter of a neurologist. He says it's the one activity he absolutely wouldn't allow.
Anonymous
Post 03/16/2017 08:55     Subject: Is Playing HS Football worth the Risks?
Nope.

Is anything?
Anonymous
Post 03/16/2017 08:54     Subject: Is Playing HS Football worth the Risks?
Football seems to have the most head injuries of all the sports. Is it worth breaking your kids nut?