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Hall of Fame QB Brett Favre wants youth football outlawed
Posted on 6/24/18 at 8:23 am
Posted on 6/24/18 at 8:23 am
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Brett Favre wants to end youth tackle football in the United States.
Favre, who sustained countless concussions in his 20-year NFL quarterbacking career, told the London Daily Mail that he wants his grandchildren to pursue golf and music rather than football.
Favre and retired athletes such as former NFL quarterback Kurt Warner and U.S. women's soccer star Abby Wambach are investors and spokespeople for Prevacus, a prescription drug designed to treat the long-term effects of concussions.
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Favre is also supporting a proposed Illinois bill forbidding anyone under 12 from playing tackle football. The Dave Duerson Act to Prevent CTE, named after the former Chicago Bears safety who died by suicide after a lengthy battle with the disease, doesn't have the support to pass.
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Favre thinks similar legislation should be a national law.
This post was edited on 6/24/18 at 8:27 am
Posted on 6/24/18 at 8:26 am to WPBTiger
Everyone is turning into a Big Pussy this day and age..
Posted on 6/24/18 at 8:26 am to WPBTiger
That's one way to protect your records. Nice try, Brett.
Posted on 6/24/18 at 8:30 am to finchmeister08
Upvote for perfect Larry David use. That .gif always makes me laugh.
Posted on 6/24/18 at 8:30 am to WPBTiger
So unAmerican. Next thing he’s going to try to outlaw is dick pics.
Posted on 6/24/18 at 8:30 am to WPBTiger
Just give all yourh football players those magic copper bracelets he selks. No more concussions
Posted on 6/24/18 at 8:33 am to WPBTiger
The idea of taking Bret Favre and his opinion seriously on anything off the football field is hilarious.
Posted on 6/24/18 at 8:35 am to WPBTiger
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that he wants his grandchildren to pursue golf and music rather than football.
Why not tell them to focus on school and be doctors or engineers?
Posted on 6/24/18 at 8:40 am to WPBTiger
Wait a few hours and he’ll forget about this.
Posted on 6/24/18 at 8:42 am to PhilemonThomas
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The idea of taking Bret Favre and his opinion seriously on anything off the football field is hilarious.
Yea definitely.
This opinion is literally about the football field tho hoss
Posted on 6/24/18 at 8:48 am to GregMaddux
Where is this army of brain-addled zombies in American society from playing a couple years of tackle football? Wait, there isn't one. This overreaction is just another venue for virtue signalling.
Posted on 6/24/18 at 8:56 am to WPBTiger
I agree with Brett on this. Football is a blood sport.
Posted on 6/24/18 at 9:00 am to tgrbaitn08
Under twelve football is safer than cheerleading when you look at the injury statistics. Its only when the boys get bigger and faster in high school that concussions become somewhat more likely.
Posted on 6/24/18 at 9:01 am to WPBTiger
Who knew Brett Favre was a commie. I thought he was supposed to be an American hero.
oh well...
oh well...
Posted on 6/24/18 at 9:03 am to hankiba
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Under twelve football is safer than cheerleading when you look at the injury statistics.
That's not saying much. Cheerleading is fricking dangerous. It's one of the most dangerous "sports" or activities out there. People don't realize how dangerous it is. My little cousin got a couple of concussions, one very serious one with possible long term ramifications, before they became convinced to take her out of it.
Posted on 6/24/18 at 9:07 am to LSU_Smash_the_West
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Everyone is turning into a Big Pussy this day and age..
If not wanting mental problems later in life caused from concussions suffered in youth then I guess I'm a giant bleeding vagina.
Oh, and elohel someone calling Brett Favre a pussy.
Posted on 6/24/18 at 9:08 am to WPBTiger
So it should be banned by law because every kid will get the same head trauma that guys who went on to college and played for 20 years in the NFL.
Maybe ban players coming back after they retire.
Maybe ban players coming back after they retire.
Posted on 6/24/18 at 9:16 am to GregMaddux
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This opinion is literally about the football field tho hoss
Naw hoss, it's about concussions and a decision to let your kids play football.
Posted on 6/24/18 at 9:17 am to WPBTiger
Why would anyone listen to any opinion someone with that many concussions has?
This post was edited on 6/24/18 at 9:20 am
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