re: No one cares about college football anymore

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Actually there are studies that show soccer has and even higher rate of concussions than football. Baseball, all it takes is one line drive, in a game or practice (one) and your child may never be right again. Basketball, well I am not sure about it.

The point is nothing is without risks. Football at a very young age I doubt has any problems with concussions (they just are not big enough to hit that hard), and most players start playing football in high school anyway.

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No sport has a zero probability of being permanently and/or seriously injured, but that doesn't mean the probability is equal for all sports. Sure, you could get hit with a line drive in face while playing baseball, but the probability of that happening in your lifetime is small even for people who play professional baseball for 10+ years. It's orders of magnitude less probable than football players developing CTE and other brain injuries/diseases. Play football long enough and developing CTE almost becomes a certainty. And it doesn't take decades for CTE to develop. There are high school football players who have developed CTE.