Anonymous wrote:Football has become the modern day gladiator sport. Good for underprivileged who pursue his route if willing to take the risk of severe and non reversible head injury. I would not let my kid play this sport because for one thing, we don’t need the scholarship money.

The vast majority of boys who play high school football do not receive scholarships and do not make a college team.

Anonymous wrote:Football has become the modern day gladiator sport. Good for underprivileged who pursue his route if willing to take the risk of severe and non reversible head injury. I would not let my kid play this sport because for one thing, we don’t need the scholarship money.

It is only a path for the underprivileged because we had made it so, and the path to success is easy to navigate --play well in high school, play well in college, get drafted. Ditto with basketball. Baseball or soccer could be the same if the route to professional had transparency, or if we attended and supported other sports the way we support football and basketball. You can't decry football on one hand then hold a Super Bowl party for all your friends.

Football = Darwinism

Football will die out on its own some places. I don’t know any parents who will let their sons play football anymore. The next challenge is for those of us who won’t let our sons play to stop supporting other boys playing. I’m guilty of watching college football, and I DO feel guilty about it.

Yes I absolutely think it’s time, because of the indisputable evidence of CTE in every brain they have studied in college and pro players. But it won’t happen because people love money more than they care about saving lives. It’s as if we as society made millions every year from smoking, so we just kept on celebrating it. I will not go to football games at any level. If you doubt me, go watch the documentary Concussion.

Football has become the modern day gladiator sport. Good for underprivileged who pursue his route if willing to take the risk of severe and non reversible head injury. I would not let my kid play this sport because for one thing, we don’t need the scholarship money.

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Anonymous wrote:Sad story about a football player in Georgia who died after a head injury. How can parents continue to let their kids play this dangerous sport?

https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/01/health/georgia-high-school-football-player-dies/index.html

+1.

It's bad parenting at this point to let your kids play football.

About 1,000,000 boys played high school football in 2017.

Anonymous wrote:LOTS of colleges (maybe not south, but other places) have completely eliminated their football programs, OP.

I checked your claim that "lots of colleges" have dropped football.

As you can see, it's a handful since 2000 and some of that has because the colleges have ceased to exist.

Do you just make stuff up prior to posting it as fact?

It took me a couple of minutes to debunk your claim.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_defunct_college_football_teams

Anonymous wrote:LOTS of colleges (maybe not south, but other places) have completely eliminated their football programs, OP.

Can you list any of these schools?

I can think of a few that have added football.

Anonymous wrote:Sad story about a football player in Georgia who died after a head injury. How can parents continue to let their kids play this dangerous sport?

https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/01/health/georgia-high-school-football-player-dies/index.html

+1.

It's bad parenting at this point to let your kids play football.

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Anonymous wrote:LOTS of colleges (maybe not south, but other places) have completely eliminated their football programs, OP.

Not necessarily because of injuries. Football is a costly sport. I think there was a Real Time Sports episode dealing with this topic at historical black colleges and universities.

Both liability and ticket sales.

Anonymous wrote:LOTS of colleges (maybe not south, but other places) have completely eliminated their football programs, OP.

Not necessarily because of injuries. Football is a costly sport. I think there was a Real Time Sports episode dealing with this topic at historical black colleges and universities.

LOTS of colleges (maybe not south, but other places) have completely eliminated their football programs, OP.

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Anonymous wrote:Things need to change but I don't think getting rid of football is it.

Here is an article about reducing concussions in the Ivy league with a rule change.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/02/sports/ncaafootball/ivy-league-football-concussions.html

Google "ivy reduce concussions" if you can't read NYT.

Also, no NFL players die during games or practice. But HS and college players do, why? Because the coaches suck, we need coaches to be well trained and regulated and when harsh/unhealthy treatment is obvious there is a way to report it.

People have reported coaches and the school has said, they are contract employees and don't fall under the code of conduct of teachers... that is BS.

While coaching/trainers is definitely cause, this is also in the context that the physical size disparity in HS versus the disparity in the NFL. In the NFL, it's "fair game" for a defensive tackle to tackle a running back; while on the HS level, if you're talking about a defensive tackle that already has the chops of an elite athlete to make it to the college level versus an average joe running back...

Actually, the PP is correct. More high school and college players die of heart attacks and other forms of exhaustion than from injury caused by playing; this does not happen in the NFL, because the NFL long ago absorbed the lessons of proper hydration and rest periods. The Marines even do this, ffs. And yet we still see 2-a-days and -puking-is-good coaching on the high school and college level.

The heart attacks and heat exhaustion in high school football can and should be addressed and prevented. What about CTE, though??

Anonymous wrote:With the current climate, we all know where this would be going if you eliminate football--it'll be spun as yet another political conspiracy one way (Southern heritage) or the other (black suppression).

+1