Explain why you would let your son play football.
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Captain Crunch
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If your son is 5'9 and super athletic which sport you think is gonna get him closer to the pros
Futbol; Tennis
TMNT4000
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This is just another anti-football thread
It's a question
They just wanna make reasons to wanna shyt on football
If your worried about brain damage then I wouldn't send children to play association football either. Heading the ball for years can cause long term brain problems as well.
On the subject though if my child want lets to play any sport they could. American football included.
On the subject though if my child want lets to play any sport they could. American football included.
NYC Rebel
...on the otherside of the pond
I played football at OU and have reservations letting my sons play football.
Stop being thin skinned....it's a legit question
That's not true.
blockboy504
LSU Tigers
It's up to him let him choose
TMNT4000
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I would have taken this thread seriously if it wasn't for these anti-football threads these past few days
But I would take you seriously.
For me I would have no problem if my son plays football in the youth level since small kids are not big or fast enough to cause damage.
Now when gets to optimist and high school football it depends what positions he plays, they're trying to make the rules more safer for head hits especially for QB's and WR's
If my son play's either two of those positions I'll be good, but any other position I will teach my son not to play reckless with his body or head and play smart and safe as possible.
It is. They even banned headers for the under 11s in the usa.
Not as high a risk as the likes of rugby or american football but the risk is there.
There's also the fact that you will have to block shots with your head at some point.
Because in the USA people who play sports are soft, you put helmets and p*ssy pads to everything... It's not a surprise...
Blocking shots with your head at high speed can cause concussions, but it happens once in a while... Heading the ball from a center is not dangerous...
Verbal Kint
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I've gone over this before. There's been nothing that shows that playing football at the lower levels is inherently more dangerous than tons of other sports regarding the brain. Once you get to the upper levels with 240lb missles running around yea, things get dangerous. That said, nobody cared about concussions until 5-6 years ago. I've coached youth and HS football and at this point everything is emphasizing safety. Helmet to helmet hits are outlawed and any kid with a headache is held out until they're cleared by a doctor. Football is a great sport and the issues faced at the pro levels don't mean its the same at the minor levels. Millions of men grew up playing football from 1st-12th grade so why aren't we seeing all these CTE issues in everybody? I'm 32 and none of my guys I played with through HS have killed themselves or lost their minds or anything like that or suffered from brain issues to my knowledge. The level of fear without knowledge some of ya'll have is just dumb.
Verbal Kint
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This nikka on some dumb stuff.
- Any youth football coach gets drilled about player safety from the jump. Leagues have serious rules about everything from concussions to overheating and these days player safety is put over everything. 3 years ago (last time I coached) any kid with a headache was held out and made to see a dr. I've never seen a coach get 'excited' about any head to head collision, more like terrified that someone got hurt because we actually care about the kids we coach. This is free, volunteer work that people do because they love the game and enjoy working with kids. Ain't no glory in it besides the competition and the fun of winning. You talking out the wrong end and not making any sense.
Also the point of the drill you're describing isn't for kids to blast each other, its to teach defenders to square up and move their feet in a scramble and also to get them used to grabbing cloth or wrapping up from a non ideal position since most tackles aren't one on one, and also to teach ball carriers to get low. So yea, this situation happens almost all the time. Defenders are coming off of blocks and around piles and only have a yard or 2 to react to the ball carrier. Its also far less physical than lining guys up 5-10 yards apart and having them run full speed at each other. Step ya knowledge up
This nikka on some dumb stuff.
- Any youth football coach gets drilled about player safety from the jump. Leagues have serious rules about everything from concussions to overheating and these days player safety is put over everything. 3 years ago (last time I coached) any kid with a headache was held out and made to see a dr. I've never seen a coach get 'excited' about any head to head collision, more like terrified that someone got hurt because we actually care about the kids we coach. This is free, volunteer work that people do because they love the game and enjoy working with kids. Ain't no glory in it besides the competition and the fun of winning. You talking out the wrong end and not making any sense.
Also the point of the drill you're describing isn't for kids to blast each other, its to teach defenders to square up and move their feet in a scramble and also to get them used to grabbing cloth or wrapping up from a non ideal position since most tackles aren't one on one, and also to teach ball carriers to get low. So yea, this situation happens almost all the time. Defenders are coming off of blocks and around piles and only have a yard or 2 to react to the ball carrier. Its also far less physical than lining guys up 5-10 yards apart and having them run full speed at each other. Step ya knowledge up
The situation where a ball carrier is laying down on his back, flips over, then runs for yards does not happen a lot. In that drill the person who gets up the fastest usually wins, not the person with the best technique.
There are youth leagues all over this country and they dont all train their coaches and monitor them in the same way. Hell just a few years ago they were going on and on about youth foobtall in miami where people were betting on kids getting big hits and whatnot, including the coaches. I know on my own team we would get money for laying out players on the opposing team and this was way back in the late 80s early 90s. I wan an offensive lineman so i didnt really have a chance to get big hits and get the money so eventually something funny happened. We eventually stopped blocking the men lined directly across form us if the ball wasnt going to that hole. We just let them pass as we ran down the field looking to lay out anyone, even if they were nowhere near the ball. And a couple of us got big hit money for doing that shyt and nobody was talked to about blowing their assignments. Now you can say that a good youth football coach would frown upon that, but that is essentially my point. Not all the coaches are good coaches.
Field Marshall Bradley
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Verbal Kint
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That drill is also a scramble drill, forcing you to get up quick. And I was doing that drill in HS on a state championship team. Again the main point is forcing you to wrap up in non ideal situations. Teaching form tackling is cool but there are very few times in a game where a guy can square up and form tackle which is why teaching kids (especially on the youth level) about grabbing and holding on is important. Grab a leg and wait for reinforcements.
And yea I'll give you that there's some wild stuff out there. My pops is from Miami and told me about how serious they take that stuff down there. So you're right not all coaches are good and I can't really speak to other parts of the country. I know where I'm at in the midwest player safety and all that is paramount.