October 28, 201015 yr Are you going to discourage those two sports, or just cross your fingers? Discourage and cross my fingers. If he wants to play any sport I'll have a hard time not allwoing it.
October 28, 201015 yr More teenagers are hurt or killed driving automobiles than playing football. Should we stop our teenagers from driving? My son played from pee wee through high school. If I had another son I would support him 100% and in fact I would encourage him to play football. We do until they are 16 and a half or older. They also have limits as to when they can drive and with who until they've gone an amount of time that someone deems is safe and they have to pass a written and driving test. Nobody is saying every kid can't play football. The question was would someone not allow their kid to play football. I'm guessing there are parents that don't allow their children to drive at certain times or at all for various differnt reasons.
October 28, 201015 yr Well oblivious. :lol: More are killed by a lot of things other than football. Then should we stop teens from doing all those things since there is a much greater chance of them getting hurt/killed doing them?
October 28, 201015 yr Author Kids don't stand a chance growing up in the days of helicopter parents. :lol:I think a lot of evidence is starting to appear that football might be a lot more dangerous than was thought just a few years ago. This danger is especially troublesome when it deals with potential long term brain issues. The posters on here who know me well should know I have a pretty laissez-faire attitude, but as the evidence piles up I am shifting towards the feeling that football is not a sport I'd want my children, little brother, or nephews to participate in. Personally, I don't laugh when discussing brain damage.
October 28, 201015 yr #3 son was playing and decided to quit and focus on his grades. (GIRLS) he came into our room and proceeded to give us reasons why he wanted to quit. I looked at him and said.."someday you will be 25/35/45/55 years old and you can't say, I want to play high school football. He walked out and continued to play and told me later he was so glad he didn't quit. I got upset at my coach and quit going into my Senior year, it still bothers me to this day and I even spoke with my coach 30 years later on why I was upset. My point, you cannot go back and play, believe me I'd try.
October 28, 201015 yr Then should we stop teens from doing all those things since there is a much greater chance of them getting hurt/killed doing them? No, I just think that was a silly comparison. I'm all for kids playing football by the way.
October 28, 201015 yr No, I just think that was a silly comparison. I'm all for kids playing football by the way. Maybe it was silly to you, but as a parent, I have worried a lot more about my son while driving then I ever did when he played football. Sure, football is dangerous, but so are a lot of sports and activities that our kids do.
October 28, 201015 yr Maybe it was silly to you, but as a parent, I have worried a lot more about my son while driving then I ever did when he played football. Sure, football is dangerous, but so are a lot of sports and activities that our kids do. That is my point driving is waaay more dangerous and way more teenagers drive than play football.
October 28, 201015 yr That is my point driving is waaay more dangerous and way more teenagers drive than play football. Sorry, I completely misunderstood where you were going.
October 28, 201015 yr I think a lot of evidence is starting to appear that football might be a lot more dangerous than was thought just a few years ago. This danger is especially troublesome when it deals with potential long term brain issues. The posters on here who know me well should know I have a pretty laissez-faire attitude, but as the evidence piles up I am shifting towards the feeling that football is not a sport I'd want my children, little brother, or nephews to participate in. Personally, I don't laugh when discussing brain damage. You've also stated you didn't play above 8th grade so you don't really have a frame of reference for the older levels. As for the lower levels, did you suffer any brain damage from playing when you were younger? I nor anyone I know did. I think it is like anything else in the world with the 24/7 media and internet access is that isolated incidents seem like general occurences which I don't think they are.
October 28, 201015 yr It is said that if you autospy a man that died over 65, you will find some sort of prostate cancer. I wonder, if you autopsy anyone, what is the chances that they have some sort of brain damages. Just because someone played football, does not mean that the brain damage was a result of playing football. To live life, you take chances. Thoses chances have risks. I just do not see that brain damage from playing football is as high a risk as crossing the street.
October 28, 201015 yr Discourage and cross my fingers. If he wants to play any sport I'll have a hard time not allwoing it. Completely understandable. I know when I was in high school we had a couple of guys that wanted to play but weren't allowed to. We played quite a few backyard games with those guys which were mostly basketball players and a few of them would've made great wide receivers and or DE's.
October 29, 201015 yr Author You've also stated you didn't play above 8th grade so you don't really have a frame of reference for the older levels. As for the lower levels, did you suffer any brain damage from playing when you were younger? I nor anyone I know did. I think it is like anything else in the world with the 24/7 media and internet access is that isolated incidents seem like general occurences which I don't think they are.:lol: So by that logic where is your frame of reference for this conversation? Unless you are a doctor you really have no frame of reference to comment on medical issues. :lol:
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