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Wow, I'm starting to think you played football and suffered concussions.

Football is absolutely more dangerous that other things. Players run head first into each other, often causing injury to the brain. What other activity does anyone bend over, take a running stance, and headbutt another running person like two Rams in mating se****on? Try to keep up. Science h**** made numerous modern discoveries about head injuries in sports and how serious they are. Concussions are a compounding injury, meaning that each time a player receives one, his damage incre****es, exponentially. And often the severity of the damage doesn't show up until after his playing career. Just because the damage isn't instantaniously visible like the victims of a car wreck doesn't mean it's no big deal.

That's the problem with the youth today, overly protected by the parents.. Raising nothing more than spoiled brats.. Get a boo boo and go crying to mom.. Wake up people, football is no more dangerous than anything else. You face death or possible injury every waking day...But yet, life goes on!!!

Anyone know the percentage of concussions in football vs all other high school sports?

I'm assuming here that the main reason nothing has been done to make high school safer is that there are so many school districts, counties, cities, states in other words so broken down in little groups that if they had a serious head injury the only one they would report to is the local paper boy. If they have to make all these rules because coaches are forced by parents, boosters, sponsors etc...to put a winning team on the field. they are trying to practice year round when 10-15 years ago they practiced starting in August and all stopped at the last game.

I read somewhere that head and spine injuries are nearly nonexistent in classrooms from grade school through the senior year of the finest of universities. Would seem like that is where any sensible parents would prefer to see their kids.

I noticed that in college football the head injuries were cut in half. Why?

You have missed the point. This isn't about trying to bring an end to sports. It's about informing parents about the dangers that kids are being subjected to through sports. Blown out knees and torn shoulders can be fixed with modern medicine. But brain damage is permanent. And it has been proven to cause depression, aggression, and suicidal and homicidal tendencies. why would any responsible parent let their child play football? We already knew that if a kid was good enough to get a scholarship, then they probably weren't going to an education of any use. But now theres a good chance of the problem being even worse as they rack up concussions on the field.

Follow the money trail. It is all about profits and gains. Corporate America does not care about the health and injury of kids. They just want to keep their profits coming in. They just keep selling the shoes , shirts, helmets, bats, sneakers, and balls. Sports in general is probably a good thing to keep in the education equation, but it should not be the priority. Unfortunately money rules and they keep the parents in the ether, thinking their kid is going to get a sports scholarship and go to college. There is no way in my life time or my children's life time that any of this will change. Not when the NFL wants 25 Billion in profits by 2027. The NFL: will find a way to work around it. In the mean time parents will continue to let their kids play sports, because no matter what you may think, sports and money rules before education. And that sucks.

Were you to read the studies by a renowned medical school, and the statistics just in the last 10 years you would realize just how hollow and unsubstantiated your opinion is.

Football, whether it be high school college or the NFL has been around for years and will continue to be around many more....Chance of injury has and will always be a factor...

Lets ask this question since its so much money from football. Instead of covering up and lying about head injuries especially the last ten years why have they not put the money to use in finding ways to prevent head injuries?

Do any of you remember Neil Bonnett a nascar race car driver? He had numerous concussions and it got to the point that doctors told him if he got back in a car and hit the wall one more time it would kill him. Nascar was in the cover up game and let him in the car. He hit the wall and was taken out of the car to the grave yard. Nothing made nascar change but the death of their star Earnhardt.

It's all about the money. Small schools like Ashe County might opt out football, but in the big picture there is too much money to lose for companies like Nike, Addis, Under Armor and all the rest. Not counting the NFL.

http://www.usatoday.com/sto...s/5061197/

3,800,000 concussions reported in 2012, double what was reported in 200233% of all sports concussions happen at practice39% -- the amount by which ***ulative concussions are shown to increase catastrophic head injury leading to permanent neurologic disability47% of all reported sports concussions occur during high school football1 in 5 high school athletes will sustain a sports concussion during the season33% of high school athletes who have a sports concussion report two or more in the same year4 to 5 million concussions occur annually, with rising numbers among middle school athletes90% of most diagnosed concussions do not involve a loss of consciousnessAn estimated 5.3 million Americans live with a traumatic brain injury-related disability (CDC)

Jr, you have some valid points, but they really raise a different subject worthy a separate thread. The issue here is the safety aspect of sports. Irreversible brain damage. Something that only gets worse with each injury and has driven athletes to murder and suicide. Instead of harming kids on Friday night, encourage them to focus on education so they can get ahead.

The problem isn't the sports themselves. It's our educational system that is so screwed up. Teachers are teaching to pass a test (for both No Child Left Behind and Common Core). As such the schools are not preparing students to be productive members of society. Kids graduating high school today could not in the majority of cases pass an exit exam for the 8th grade 100 years ago.

You can't just blame the schools though. I remember my mom was there after we got out of school everyday. She insisted we practice our handwriting and we do our homework. We resisted at times but the usual I'll tell your dad would often straighten us up a bit. Parents today are not as involved in many cases.

In many cases they don't have the time, and that is the fault of our society, we went from a society where in the 1950s and 1960s a single income could support well an average family to a point today where it often takes 2 incomes to have a standard of living less than that enjoyed by our grandparents at our age. How do we get back to how it was, that's a good question and I don't have a good answer at this time.

You just hit on another point club. Money.

It sucks, but it still won't change anything as long as there is money to be made.

Take a look at this club.
http://nypost.com/2014/12/0...s-schools/

As a huge sports fan and football fan, I doubt I will let my boys play football. At least not till I feel it's safe.

I think the helmet is essentially a weapon. I don't know if the study looked at this but I bet the helmet has done more harm than good.

No one is advocating doing away with sports only putting just as much emphases on education vs sports.

Just guessing, I bet those fancy football stadiums were built by private money and not the taxpayers.