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re: Legal age for Football?
Posted on 12/8/15 at 12:25 pm to DuncanIdaho
Posted on 12/8/15 at 12:25 pm to DuncanIdaho
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while NBA is getting more and more popular each year.
Is that true?
Yes interest in the sport has risen every year recently and they just got a huge tv deal which will bring the salary cap up.
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Posted on 12/8/15 at 12:33 pm to Jagd Tiger
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the same progressive globalist democrat and republicans that want to import terrorists into the US will come to conclusion that "football is bad for you" and thus will pass laws to ban it.
You're a moron, even for SECRant.
Posted on 12/8/15 at 12:36 pm to skirpnasty
My god this society has gone straight to hell.
Posted on 12/8/15 at 12:37 pm to skirpnasty
I don't think football will go away, but I would not at all be surprised to see kickoffs removed and high school becoming the entry level.
Posted on 12/8/15 at 12:41 pm to elposter
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I love football but I would prefer my son not play. (He's four now so it hasn't really come up yet) Hypocritical? I guess, but I don't really care.
Exactly this. If it sticks around, it will become even more of a gladiatorial sport than it already is, in the sense that parents with means aren't going to let their kids handicap themselves for their future careers using their brains.
This post was edited on 12/8/15 at 12:44 pm
Posted on 12/8/15 at 1:33 pm to thefloydian
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There's no magical helmet that can fix football's problems. It's about deceleration, not actual contact (although that's bad too).
I disagree. The helmets are intending to increase the time between that initial contact and the moment your head comes to a stop. This reduces the force.
There's a guy testing a new design that has magnets in the helmet that basically expands that initial contact point off the helmet kind of like a force-field. It takes about 100 Gs to cause a concussion. Those magnets reduced a 120G contact to 88G. That's not a huge amount but surely technology will advance and improve upon this.
Magnets may not be the answer but there's too much money in football. They'll figure it out.
Posted on 12/8/15 at 1:39 pm to gamemc
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Magnets may not be the answer but there's too much money in football. They'll figure it out.
This is very interesting. Maybe you have seen the magnetic bungee jump. They put magnets at the base and magnets in your suit and you jump and the magnets at the base keep you from hitting the ground.
Posted on 12/8/15 at 1:43 pm to GuyonaBuffalo
Here's the link to the helmet study with magnets. LINK
This post was edited on 12/8/15 at 1:58 pm
Posted on 12/8/15 at 1:44 pm to gamemc
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Magnets may not be the answer
Posted on 12/8/15 at 2:12 pm to gamemc
Concussions aren't the issue here though. It's the repetitive trauma, not necessarily the trauma that's intense enough to cause a concussion.
Posted on 12/8/15 at 2:17 pm to skirpnasty
If I'm not mistaken, Jimmy Clausen's parents didn't let him play tackle football until high school. Flag only up to then.
Posted on 12/8/15 at 2:27 pm to Vols&Shaft83
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I am boycotting the new Will Smith movie
Yep. My wife has actually tried to engage me in conversation about this since seeing the previews and how tragic it is blah blah blah.
I'm like when you sign up to play football you are told day one the risks, and you sign the paperwork and accept the risks. Heck inside the helmet at least back when I played they had a sticker that said "Football may kill and/or maim you, so don't be a Darwin Award Winner and spear someone with this helmet unless you want to drink Campbell's Soup through a straw for the rest of your life."
Nobody is forcing you to be out there. Unless some of you jack wagons are overbearing fathers trying to live vicariously through their sons......
This post was edited on 12/8/15 at 5:50 pm
Posted on 12/8/15 at 2:46 pm to Brosef Stalin17
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Get him into flag-football until high school.
This I was an assistant coach for my sons 8-9 year old team... a kid on our team got hit and was out cold for 3 mins - scariest 3 mins of my life. Decided at that moment we were done with tackle football until later. We found a very good flag football program and my son is learning much better overall technique. Getting to play qb and has time to do the correct footwork etc... Over all a much better experience.
Posted on 12/8/15 at 3:17 pm to NashvilleTider
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.
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.
Posted on 12/8/15 at 3:19 pm to Aux Arc
It's the repetitive banging of heads, not one time collisions that is the issue. They are starting younger and younger at greater frequency (4-5 days a week in elementary school).
Posted on 12/8/15 at 3:26 pm to Aux Arc
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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.
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.
Posted on 12/8/15 at 3:28 pm to skirpnasty
I say we get kids to play rugby, it is a lot safer than football despite not having pads.
Posted on 12/8/15 at 4:08 pm to Flynn2Bryd
Luckily, I was blessed with two girls so I don't/won't have to worry about it. But, if I had a son, I would definately be hesitant about letting him play.. I started playing when I was 6 and played every year until my sophomore year in college.. Never had a head injury, but I'm 41 now and it feels like every injury that I had during those years have come back to haunt me.
Posted on 12/8/15 at 4:11 pm to hunkered down dawg
How many kids saved their brains (and future) from drugs by spending their afternoon's playing football?
Think of that.
Think of that.
Posted on 12/8/15 at 4:17 pm to bama1959
This is fricking bullshite, Americans have become pc pussies.
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