re: Would/Will you let your Son play Football?

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i'm going to push soccer and make sure he understands how much more open european women are, sexually

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I've seen pics buddy, bowling may be a better fit for your gene pool.

My son played from 2nd grade all the way through high school (defensive back mostly).

Never got hurt.

Had to have reconstructive surgery done on his right pinky finger due to an injury he had playing basketball though.

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I want my son to be a cheerleader

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Seriously though... I've seen stats where cheerleading is more dangerous than any of the boys sports and I believe it. I can't go anywhere in the Atlanta area without seeing some cute young girl with a knee or ankle brace. And I've seen some "flyers" get almost completely missed coming down and smack their heads pretty good... no doubt a lot of concussions too.

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yes and I will set up a personal bounty system at home in the form of later curfew.


WHO DAT

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FTFW!!! Im in. (No ledgers though)

If I ever have a son, I will lead him to baseball. Hopefully he can follow in his Father-In-Laws footsteps and make the big league

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You must have played with a bunch of pusses..

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Or because the people you played with didn't take care of their bodies and put themselves in compromising positions, or were actually weaklings who couldn't handle the wear and tear like others can.

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Show me the data on people who played 3-4 years in HS. Even another 3-4 in college. This trauma they are studying, if I'm not mistaken, is for pro players who have played over 15 years total and took brutal shots at the pro level.

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LINK

tldr:
"The sickness will be rooted in football's tragic flaw, which is that it inflicts concussions on its players with devastating frequency. Although estimates vary, several studies suggest that up to 15 percent of football players suffer a mild traumatic brain injury during the season. (The odds are significantly worse for student athletes — the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that nearly 2 million brain injuries are suffered by teenage players every year.) In fact, the chances of getting a concussion while playing high school football are approximately three times higher than the second most dangerous sport, which is girls' soccer. While such head injuries have long been ignored — until recently, players were resuscitated with smelling salts so they could re-enter the game — it's now clear that these blows have lasting consequences.

The consequences appear to be particularly severe for the adolescent brain. According to a study published last year in Neurosurgery, high school football players who suffered two or more concussions reported mental problems at much higher rates, including headaches, dizziness, and sleeping issues. The scientists describe these symptoms as "neural precursors," warning signs that something in the head has gone seriously wrong."
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"Teenagers are especially susceptible to these mass cellular suicides. This is largely because their brains are still developing, which means that even a slight loss of cells can alter the trajectory of brain growth. Football concussions are also most likely to affect the parts of the brain, such as the frontal lobes, that are undergoing the most intense development. (The frontal lobes are responsible for many higher cognitive functions, such as self-control and abstract reasoning. The immaturity of these areas helps explain the immaturity of teenagers.)"
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"Needless to say, this disturbing data has not dissuaded anyone from playing in the NFL: The tremendous rewards offered to professional athletes help compensate for the potential risk. We understand why they play on Sunday.

But this same calculus doesn't apply to high school athletes, that pipeline of future talent. Although these teenagers are suffering concussions at higher rates and with worse consequences — the head trauma of football targets the most vulnerable areas of the developing brain — the overwhelming majority of these kids will never play the sport competitively again. They are getting paid nothing and yet they are paying the highest cost."

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what in the...frick?

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Wow you need to post a picture of yourself to disprove this or else everybody is going to assume that your looks have a direct correlation with your post count.

That's actually a really hard question to have the right answer for.

What does seem clear is that (contrary to what makes intuitive sense to most of us) even the elementary age kids playing football can do a lot more damage to themselves than you might think.

BMES April 2012

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This study reports, for the first time, the head impact biomechanics experienced with participation in youth football. From these data, how frequently and how severely 7 and 8 year old children impact their heads while playing in organized tackle football can be characterized. Interestingly, high magnitude impacts (>80 g) were experienced by the instrumented children during play. This level of severity is similar to some of the more severe impacts that college players experience, even though the youth players have less body mass and play at slower speeds....

it is important to note that all levels of play experience high magnitude impacts (>80 g), but these impacts occur more frequently as the player gets older.

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Youth football helmets are very similar in size and mass to adult football helmets. With that said, the neck muscles of 7–8 year olds are undeveloped in comparison to high school and college football players. These two factors may result in a youth player being more susceptible to impacting his head on the ground while being tackled than a high school or college player.

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While youth football players impact their heads less frequently than high school and college players, and have impact distributions more heavily weighted toward low magnitude impacts; high magnitude impacts still occur. Interestingly, the majority of these high magnitude impacts occur during practice.

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