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This is going to be very ticklish for the left. With the trial lawyers now in the mix, we've got all the same ingredients that we had with the War on Tobacco in place with the War On Football. But with the popularity of football, the left knows that it has to approach w/ trepidation. This is Pres. Obama sticking his toe in the water, and to echo the poster above, my guess would be that this is at the urging of Michelle.
Good grief--there is no "war on football." You have science telling us that concussions are causing major brain damage and Alzheimer's, and you have players who are becoming increasingly concerned. If you think putting common sense reforms in that reduce injury, or that give athletes the time they need to heal properly between injuries is a "war" then I can't help you.
Wish I could rep you again. As a pediatric nurse, I can tell you the profession has become much more proactive about concussions and head injuries, not just in football players but with everyone. One of our doctors took his kid out of football after his second concussion. He does wrestling now.
My kids wrestle and play football. You can still get a concussion in wrestling (there's plenty of head slamming on to mats) but it's not nearly as common. Fortunately we haven't had to deal with a concussion in our family.
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Agreed. I coached high school swimming for awhile, and all coaches had to take mandatory concussion training. The stuff we learned and the consequences we saw for young people were scarier than hell.
It is scary--you're right.
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Yeah, like dads don't give a **** about their son's health.
By the way, the folks who have brought this issue to the forefront have all been former NFL players and their families. This ain't a left issue this is about work place safety that is tricking down to the plantations farm teams.
We live in a community within commuting distance of Lincoln Nebraska (home of the University Nebraska and Husker football). Lots of the small towns around here have former Husker athletes (some who've gone on to the pros and came back home to retire) either coaching at our schools, or as parents of kids in youth sports programs. I think that's one reason why our local schools, in cooperation with the local sports medicine community, have become so proactive about dealing with head injury--it's the former adult athletes who are raising the flags about head injury because sometimes they're dealing with the consequences themselves. It's interesting that the Dads who really did play college and pro ball are the most likely to not push their kids into tackle football too early. It makes them better players too--they're forced to learn the fundamentals in flag vs. just powering their way through. Nebraska Sports Concussion Network
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OK< we get where you ate coming from, so go back to playing with your dolls...
Did you really "get what me ate coming from?" You're SO clever! You have absolutely nothing intelligent to say--ever--but it doesn't seem to stop you!
Most High Schools are already starting to take the concussion issue very seriously, especially since we've had some high profile situations out here where a child has had repeat concussions and wound up severely brain damaged.
The major cause of these problems though are poorly trained coaches. They're not consistently drilling proper techniques into these kids. Football, even at the high school and younger age groups, can be a safer sport then it is now. But the athletes themselves have to know how to make it safe. And the only person they're going to listen to is the Coach.
I wonder what Trayvon would have to say about this?
Trayvon played football. Obama would have a fictional son that looked like Trayvon so Obama's fictional son therefore, PLAYED FOOTBALL. <GASP!!!!!!!!!!>
How coulld he go against his father's wishes? Oh, the humanity!!!!
This is a great way to get rid of football and force soccer, the sport loved by the communist America hating left, down everyone's throats. Remove one generation from it and the next won't follow. Just like freedom. All it takes is one generation to lay down and everyone after won't know what it's all about. I told the left handed squealers that the communists liberal freaks would be going after football the first time I read about the concussion nonsense based on BS and here we have dear leader claiming his phantom son wouldn't be playing such a violent sport. Well no sheet Obama he'd probably be a pansy just like you.
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