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Anonymous wrote:Tackle football is by far the most participated HS male sport according to NFHS which regulates HS sports. The idea that it is dying comical. The largest event that 99% of all HS hold are home football games. The money brought in from football in almost the entire athletic budget at most places. Football isn’t going anywhere because without it HS sports can’t survive.

Try to keep up. Clearly you live in a 30 year old bubble. Most football gains are now coming from flag football, especially due to girls:

https://nfhs.org/stories/participation-in-high-school-sports-tops-eight-million-for-first-time-in-2023-24


Flag football is dominating social media. It’s a sport that can be played coed, thereby doubling the commercial value of the future market. It is much faster, with far less delays. Anyone with a shred of intelligence is ditching tackle football because it is horrific for young, developing brains. Tackle football is a dying sport.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/interactive/2023/football-participation-decline-politics-demographics/

You must be right. I am watching 100,000 people in LSU’s stadium playing against Florida. The stadium is stuffed to the limit. LSU (inexplicably for warm Louisiana) has an indoor track facility a half mile away from the stadium. Maybe that is where the flag football game is being played.

From an economic standpoint there likely is no greater GDP producing event in the state (except for Super Bowl years). In case one wonders whether LSU is idiosyncratic Bryant Denny in Tuscaloosa was stuffed to the gills today too against mediocre Wisconsin. And even a team with limited attendance like Georgia Tech had a full stadium against. There are very draws like top level NCAA football.

One of the reasons the SEC is so good is that the best youth athletes in the south opt for pee wee football. They aren’t throwing the discus. The big time linemen who have size typically played the skill positions in pre wee football, and become unusually fast and agile. This starts at a young age.

By the way I am a former NCAA All American D1 guy and have lots of concerns over the corrupting factors in big time college football. In many ways not a fan. But my grandfather was a pro football player and it is in my blood. Flag football is fun, but college football isn’t going away.

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Flag football is going to overtake the sport. It is inevitable.

Lol no.

I live in SOCAL in an expensive area and more kids participate in tackle football than flag football. Tackle isn't going anywhere.

flag football is a good alternative for girls and kids whose parents wont let them play tackle but it will never overcome tackle.

the NFL has basically taken away most big tackles in games, its almost to the point, its no more dangerous than mens laxcrosse.

Agreed. And hockey. My kid plays high school football for one of the powerhouse Catholics - and there are very few head injuries or even “crushing”hits.

Because they are little white boys. Have him play in the ghetto

lol. This is big time catholic high school football. Half the kids aren’t white and about 10 get d1 scholarships every year.

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Anonymous wrote:
Flag football is going to overtake the sport. It is inevitable.

Lol no.

I live in SOCAL in an expensive area and more kids participate in tackle football than flag football. Tackle isn't going anywhere.

flag football is a good alternative for girls and kids whose parents wont let them play tackle but it will never overcome tackle.

the NFL has basically taken away most big tackles in games, its almost to the point, its no more dangerous than mens laxcrosse.

Agreed. And hockey. My kid plays high school football for one of the powerhouse Catholics - and there are very few head injuries or even “crushing”hits.

Because they are little white boys. Have him play in the ghetto

So this is racist. And if true so what? Why would you say that? And I doubt you know anything about football. A powerhouse Catholic High School will have a team that is very racially mixed. They are in it to win it. It is not Sidwell.

Anonymous wrote:My son plays D1 football. He didn't start playing tackle until freshman year (we wouldn't allow him to play before that) and didn't start lifting heavy or working out with a position coach until halfway through his junior year.

Playing in college was his goal (not ours) and he worked really hard to get where he is today. He also continued to play multiple sports through high school and credits that to his success as a football player.

I'll also add that from what I understand it's all about footwork and "hands."

This --- American football, unlike football football can be learned Freshman year. no need to get contact in earlier. It does not good at all. What you do need is to be athletic. So multiple sports, ability to run longer and short bursts. Working out can start in middle school but I would not go heavy until Freshman year.

I would not be too worried about the brain injury. That is a thing but it is not a common issue. You do have to watch the concussions which now get picked up. I would be wary with multiple concussions but absent that I would not be too worried.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Flag football is going to overtake the sport. It is inevitable.

Lol no.

I live in SOCAL in an expensive area and more kids participate in tackle football than flag football. Tackle isn't going anywhere.

flag football is a good alternative for girls and kids whose parents wont let them play tackle but it will never overcome tackle.

the NFL has basically taken away most big tackles in games, its almost to the point, its no more dangerous than mens laxcrosse.

Agreed. And hockey. My kid plays high school football for one of the powerhouse Catholics - and there are very few head injuries or even “crushing”hits.

Because they are little white boys. Have him play in the ghetto

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Flag football is going to overtake the sport. It is inevitable.

Lol no.

I live in SOCAL in an expensive area and more kids participate in tackle football than flag football. Tackle isn't going anywhere.

flag football is a good alternative for girls and kids whose parents wont let them play tackle but it will never overcome tackle.

the NFL has basically taken away most big tackles in games, its almost to the point, its no more dangerous than mens laxcrosse.

Agreed. And hockey. My kid plays high school football for one of the powerhouse Catholics - and there are very few head injuries or even “crushing”hits.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Flag football is going to overtake the sport. It is inevitable.

Lol no.

I live in SOCAL in an expensive area and more kids participate in tackle football than flag football. Tackle isn't going anywhere.

flag football is a good alternative for girls and kids whose parents wont let them play tackle but it will never overcome tackle.

the NFL has basically taken away most big tackles in games, its almost to the point, its no more dangerous than mens laxcrosse.

Anonymous wrote:Tackle football is by far the most participated HS male sport according to NFHS which regulates HS sports. The idea that it is dying comical. The largest event that 99% of all HS hold are home football games. The money brought in from football in almost the entire athletic budget at most places. Football isn’t going anywhere because without it HS sports can’t survive.

You’re an idiot. That’s because it’s no cut and they need. 100 fools to field a team

Anonymous wrote:Tackle football is by far the most participated HS male sport according to NFHS which regulates HS sports. The idea that it is dying comical. The largest event that 99% of all HS hold are home football games. The money brought in from football in almost the entire athletic budget at most places. Football isn’t going anywhere because without it HS sports can’t survive.

Try to keep up. Clearly you live in a 30 year old bubble. Most football gains are now coming from flag football, especially due to girls:

https://nfhs.org/stories/participation-in-high-school-sports-tops-eight-million-for-first-time-in-2023-24


Flag football is dominating social media. It’s a sport that can be played coed, thereby doubling the commercial value of the future market. It is much faster, with far less delays. Anyone with a shred of intelligence is ditching tackle football because it is horrific for young, developing brains. Tackle football is a dying sport.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/interactive/2023/football-participation-decline-politics-demographics/

Tackle football is by far the most participated HS male sport according to NFHS which regulates HS sports. The idea that it is dying comical. The largest event that 99% of all HS hold are home football games. The money brought in from football in almost the entire athletic budget at most places. Football isn’t going anywhere because without it HS sports can’t survive.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Flag football is going to overtake the sport. It is inevitable.

Lol no.

I live in SOCAL in an expensive area and more kids participate in tackle football than flag football. Tackle isn't going anywhere.

You might wanna keep up with social media. Tackle football is a dying sport, not only because it is far too slow, but no with brains wants their white matter turning into mashed potatoes.

This area is an aberration due to the high number of immigrants who love soccer. In most of the rest of the country tackle football is still king.

Anonymous wrote:
Flag football is going to overtake the sport. It is inevitable.

Lol no.

I live in SOCAL in an expensive area and more kids participate in tackle football than flag football. Tackle isn't going anywhere.

I wish there was a way to get flag football to replace tackle in the high schools. My son loves it, but we’ve told him no tackle. He says he’ll wait till he’s an adult, lol. Which I guess would be better. I know he won’t be playing in college, but I think he thinks will if he’s allowed to play tackle. It helps that the Mannings didn’t play tackle till high school.

He’s still young, but we have discussed the sub-concussive hits and what that does to brains.