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Four concussions per high school team per year. I would think that number would be higher. There are 1.1 million high school football players in the country playing at 14,000 schools who practice every day of the week barring Sunday mostly and play ten games during the year. You break that down and get four concussions in a season per school. One would think the numbers would be quite a bit higher. Not so "staggering" after all.
Now you want to also add in undiagnosed concussions which could basically be anything. Hey coach I got a headache ban there's an undiagnosed concussion. Maybe the kid just doesn't want to run at the end of practice. lol
Lets see some real comparisons and stop going after football. Eva Lesko is a perfect example of somebody who shouldn't even be talking about this issue.
Forgot to add the link there above. This is from a study that actually shows some real numbers.
But, while the study found that concussions represent a higher proportion of all injuries sustained in boys' ice hockey than other sports, football had the highest rate of sport-related concussions per 100,000 AEs:
I don't get where all the political bickering earlier in this thread came from. The decision to allow your kid to play a rough contact sport has nothing to do with politics. It comes down to science and reason. As a parent it's your job to do the research on what can possibly happen to your child and what the liklihood of bad things happening is. Once you have this information it's then your call wether or not to let them play.
We're seeing more and more ex professional football and hockey players come clean with the things they have been suffering from linked to contact. From everything I've learned about it does not seem worth it to let my son play football or hockey. That's my choice and I have no desire to tell other parents what to do or shut down the sports.
I don't get where all the political bickering earlier in this thread came from. The decision to allow your kid to play a rough contact sport has nothing to do with politics. It comes down to science and reason. As a parent it's your job to do the research on what can possibly happen to your child and what the liklihood of bad things happening is. Once you have this information it's then your call wether or not to let them play.
We're seeing more and more ex professional football and hockey players come clean with the things they have been suffering from linked to contact. From everything I've learned about it does not seem worth it to let my son play football or hockey. That's my choice and I have no desire to tell other parents what to do or shut down the sports.
With Obamacare and sports injuries, it has everything to do with politics. The government has the ability to ban any sport it wishes and has grounds to do so now. They pay for the injuries.
I don't get where all the political bickering earlier in this thread came from. The decision to allow your kid to play a rough contact sport has nothing to do with politics. It comes down to science and reason. As a parent it's your job to do the research on what can possibly happen to your child and what the liklihood of bad things happening is. Once you have this information it's then your call wether or not to let them play.
We're seeing more and more ex professional football and hockey players come clean with the things they have been suffering from linked to contact. From everything I've learned about it does not seem worth it to let my son play football or hockey. That's my choice and I have no desire to tell other parents what to do or shut down the sports.
Professional football players have nothing to do with kids playing the sport. 1% of 1% of 1% will make it that far and they are paid handsomely to take the chance playing that long. I'm sure now they will be forced to sign some sort of waiver to continue after all the legal wrangling is taken care of.
With Obamacare and sports injuries, it has everything to do with politics. The government has the ability to ban any sport it wishes and has grounds to do so now. They pay for the injuries.
Professional football players have nothing to do with kids playing the sport. 1% of 1% of 1% will make it that far and they are paid handsomely to take the chance playing that long. I'm sure now they will be forced to sign some sort of waiver to continue after all the legal wrangling is taken care of.
But they all went through the system and sustained injury after injury.
Professional football players have nothing to do with kids playing the sport. 1% of 1% of 1% will make it that far and they are paid handsomely to take the chance playing that long. I'm sure now they will be forced to sign some sort of waiver to continue after all the legal wrangling is taken care of.
Are you saying kids playing sports in high school can't get seriously hurt? Have you seen the size of some high school football players?
I graduated high school in 1995 and I distinctly remember that there were a handful of football players bench pressing 350 to 400 pounds.
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