re: Would you let your kids play football? Lebron says no.

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well no shite

its just a risk vs reward thing

if I can remove 1 serious risk without removing any of the rewards, why wouldn't I do that?

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Maybe football is rewarding for many. For many, it gives them the opportunity to receive a top notch education. Would Richard Sherman be Stanford-educated without football?

For many it teaches discipline/teamwork, etc. I know you can get that from other sports too, but maybe football is their passion. Baseball/Basketball can be won by an individual in many cases (pitcher dominating) and soccer can be one at the younger levels by having one dominant individual. A dominant RB or QB won't be shite without others to block or stop the other team.

I don't see how you can say it's a HUGE risk. It isn't. It's being sensationalized by the media. Don't get me wrong...the NFL downplaying and flat out ignoring head injuries for so long is deplorable.

However, at the youth level, I don't believe the risk of permanent or serious injury is that great or is much greater than other sports.

I'd venture to say most of us here went to HS with a football program. I'd also venture to say very few of us know people permanently injured or with CTE especially compared to knowing people who died from drugs or car accidents.

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'd say the odds of them riding in a car are higher but im no mathematician.

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Crap. I messed that up.

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For many, it gives them the opportunity to receive a top notch education. Would Richard Sherman be Stanford-educated without football?

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I'm just giving my personal reasons

no Richard Sherman is coming from my semen

lebron is a vagina.

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Football's going to die in about twenty years.

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Do people really believe this or is it just hyperbole? Football will never die in our lifetimes. It may evolve, potentially even radically, but the demand for it is still there, it'll won't die completely anytime soon

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For many it teaches discipline/teamwork, etc.

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And for many Mom's teaching teamwork through football is not near as important as keeping there son safe. There are other ways to teach to teach teamwork.

If the Mom does not support the sport and feel good about it, then the precious little boy of theirs is not going to be playing it.

Football is losing support from Mom's all across the country and that will be the downfall if it becomes to rampant. I see it in my wife. She says why should my boy play football when there are other sports with less negatives he could pursue.

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Do people really believe this or is it just hyperbole? Football will never die in our lifetimes.

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I believe it will effectively be dead or just a intramural sport of sorts in 50 years.

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I know of two guys around my age group that were paralyzed by football. You don't know when it might happen. I got two concussions playing highschool football myself, but I also got one more snowboarding. At the time I thought seeing stars was just getting my bell rung so I didnt tell anybody and kept playing. No coaches ever even brought up head injuries when I was playing at a very competitive highschool football level.

One thing is for sure for my son, In Texas they start playing full tackle football at a young age. My son wont be participating in that for sure. If he really wants to play football it will be touch or seven on seven and he will only move up to full tackle around middle school sometime.

There is no reason in my head for 5 to 12 years old to be out banging heads against each other. When he gets older I might consider it and I will teach him proper shoulder tackling myself.

The problems come up when you just farm your kid out to a guy reliving his glory years and you don't supervise how he is teaching your kid to play.

All in all, I will probably encourage him to play more games that will give him a lifetime of enjoyment like golf, basketball, etc. Rather then a game he can only play for a few years.

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perfectly reasonable. I don't think you need to play tackle football until the middle school level.

Baseball is more dangerous than football for kids aged 5-16

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Basically, I won't let my kids play tackle until middle school, if that. They can learn the sport by watching and playing 7on7 and stuff.

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So you won't let your kid play football until the age when it might actually start to get dangerous and when kids start to get stronger and more powerful.


Bunch of dumbasses up in here