BigBeauford
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Probably been discussed, but the end of high school football means the end of college football, which means the end for a lot of women's sports, which receive funding via these big sports.
Highschool football should be banned. Kids are getting brain damage for no good reason.
So what do you do for upper level play such as college or professional? With this logic you'd have to ban football as a whole.
The lawsuits are going to force this crap to shutdown before the local school districts will voluntarily do it. This is literally exactly the same as smoking.
Why would lawsuits force shutdown? Why wouldn't it just make schools create waivers for parents to sign?
I'd be more for making it non-tackle football up until Junior year. That way they at least get two years of contact football to prepare for college, and you don't have Junior High kids playing football at 13.
Why would lawsuits force shutdown? Why wouldn't it just make schools create waivers for parents to sign?
I'd be more for making it non-tackle football up until Junior year. That way they at least get two years of contact football to prepare for college, and you don't have Junior High kids playing football at 13.
Yeah lets just ban all sports, nothing good has ever come from them.
No other sport gives all the players brain damage.
Quite the straw man there.Yeah lets just ban all sports, nothing good has ever come from them.
Quite the straw man there.
HAH.
If someone made a proposal like eliminating high school football completely in a Texas or Georgia town, shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit. He'd do good to already have his bags packed.
You can bet the NFL will fight this tooth and nail.
Yep. No more public school football programs, and instead they can play with club/traveling teams.Those are multi billion dollar businesses, let them figure that out. Why should public schools feel obligated to be a feeder system to the NFL?
I played football from 6th grade through the end of high school and started every year. My brother did the same. I'm a former nuke and will have a masters in EE next year, my brother's a helo pilot.No other sport gives all the players brain damage.
I played football from 6th grade through the end of high school and started every year. My brother did the same. I'm a former nuke and will have a masters in EE next year, my brother's a helo pilot.
That brain damage we both got sure did fuck us up in life.
The quote said everyone, how is that not hyperbole?You're getting a masters in electrical engineering but don't know the difference between anecdotal and scientific evidence?
You are not going to get a law passed completely banning minors from being allowed to play tackle football, I don't think.
It should not, however, be funded by taxpayer dollars. The optimal solution would be a tackle-free form of football for public schools, with tackle football reserved for privately-funded leagues. If people wanna screw with their kids' bodies and brains, let them pay for it.
So what do you do for upper level play such as college or professional? With this logic you'd have to ban football as a whole.
'The communities need it' comment actively ignores the fact that there are dozens of entertaining, popular sports that do not put young people's health at risk that these schools could start offering instead.
A state could completely ban tackle football at the high school level easily. There is no such thing as High School Boxing, because each individual state has banned it from being offered. It is probably going to happen in the north east first and eventually the deep south and texas will be the last ones holding out.
Probably been discussed, but the end of high school football means the end of college football, which means the end for a lot of women's sports, which receive funding via these big sports.
You are not going to get a law passed completely banning minors from being allowed to play tackle football, I don't think.
It should not, however, be funded by taxpayer dollars. The optimal solution would be a tackle-free form of football for public schools, with tackle football reserved for privately-funded leagues. If people wanna screw with their kids' bodies and brains, let them pay for it.
Playing football is way down the list of the most dangerous shit I did while in high school. When did football become the bogey monster?
And all of the poor kids would get priced out.Somebody would just establish a high school level league and get all that money the schools left on the table.
Not necessarily. There are lots of athletes that don't decide to play football until they get to college. Even if high school football were to be abolished or severely cut back, college football will continue to thrive.
I don't think this should happen. I know a bunch of people who raced dirt bikes or engaged other dangerous sports when in high school too.
Somebody would just establish a high school level league and get all that money the schools left on the table.
Playing football is way down the list of the most dangerous shit I did while in high school. When did football become the bogey monster?
Science eventually brought to light that it has potential to be incredibly damaging to brains, even at the high school level. It can change the white and gray matter after only a season, and cases of CTE have been discovered in high school players (or those that played only high school football but not anything after).
Have them play flag football instead.
Why not just make it flag football?
I got knocked out once playing High School Soccer and once playing High School Lacrosse. Should they be banned? Are they any safer? Or is football just the boogeyman focused on today?