Kids playing football

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Not exactly sure.
Stub had a very good post, thanks for bumping. Revealed the twisted statement made about the 20% concussions. Using what info stub presented, there should be parents that won't allow any athletics for their kids.

Btw stub, prayers out for your child and family. May you get many more years with him and all of them special.
 

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Two things stand out from this link:

1. It claims a 75% chance for a concussion in football.
2. "Estimated 47% of athletes do not report feeling any symptoms after a concussive blow"

Also, this link shows the rate of concussion in HS football to be 11.2 per 10,000. Someone had said the rate is 1 in 10k. This is from an NFL funded study.
 
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Glad you read this...and I would guess that these guys were from an era where it was supposedly "safer".

Don't forget to click on this opinion piece...I can't say I agree with all of it but all sides are good to hear.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/20/opinions/jones-football-kids-concussions/index.html

It is good to hear all sides. And if my child is amazing at football and has an insurmountable passion for it, I might reconsider my stance if it's really important to him. I don't want him to be kept from that which makes him happiest in life - but I also don't want him to suffer lifelong damage from something that's pretty easy to prevent.
 

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It is good to hear all sides. And if my child is amazing at football and has an insurmountable passion for it, I might reconsider my stance if it's really important to him. I don't want him to be kept from that which makes him happiest in life - but I also don't want him to suffer lifelong damage from something that's pretty easy to prevent.

How would you know if he's amazing at it if he's not allowed to play it in the first place, though?
 

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You'd get about as good of an idea by how they perform on a track team. Flag football is just a bunch of kids running around, pretty much.

PS: I do realize you were being facetious there.
For the first time I actually wasn't, now I know how the boy who cried wolf felt. Flag football teaches a lot more fundamentals that just running though. Passing, catching, basic principals like pursuing a ball carrier or how to play defense. You can tell pretty quickly the kids who have a natural aptitude for those things and the kids that don't.
 

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We started playing football in PE in elementary, so I'd guess that would be a good basis.
 

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oh, I think there are plenty of ways to know if a kid has football capability...size is one, basic coordination, mentality, aptitude, pain threshold, strength...unfortunately, in football, most kids who have to run "The Annexation of Puerto Rico" don't come out on top. :)
 

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I've always felt like it was just another risk like everything in life. Obviously if further measures can be taken to improve safety then by all means implement them.

However, everything in life has its risks. Seems like no matter what sport you do, there are always long term effects. In football it's concussions while in basketball your knees will hurt for the rest of your life.

Derrick Rose (Hoiberg's new Point Guard in Chicago) last year told people he was sitting out to avoid long-term injuries, so he could attend "his son's graduation." That's just the price you pay for constantly exerting force on parts of your body.

Anywho here's a nice little video on it....

[video=youtube;P4j6FQU7QcU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4j6FQU7QcU[/video]
 

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A lot of people don't realize just how devastating dementia and other head-related injuries are, and I hope to god you never will. It is absolutely demoralizing.

There is no way I would let my son or daughter play football. Bodily injuries I can deal with, brain trauma I cannot.
 

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A lot of people don't realize just how devastating dementia and other head-related injuries are, and I hope to god you never will. It is absolutely demoralizing.

There is no way I would let my son or daughter play football. Bodily injuries I can deal with, brain trauma I cannot.

Mine can be kickers