re: Legal age for Football?

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Kids get injured and hurt in all sorts of ways and in all kids of sports and activities. One of the worst collisions I have seen was a face to face mash up of two players going after a pass in flag football. Compared to other activities, nothing compares to tackle football for all of the combined benefits a kid gets out of it.

I'm so sick of the overreaction and hyperbole surrounding football. Let's bubble wrap our little angels and continue turning America into a bunch of pussies. Thanks Oprah.

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Michael Keck Article

This poor kid played at Mizzou for a year, and had the most advanced case of CTE for any person his age that they've ever studied. Maybe it was the tackle football and repeated blows to the head, maybe it was exacerbated by his parents, who knows. But I'll take the broken arms/legs and very occasional collisions that other sports and activities have rather than repeated collisions from tackle football any day. Unlike virtually every other part of his body (save his spinal cord maybe), my kid's brain can't heal itself, so (in my opinion) it makes no sense to put it in harm's way for no good reason.