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<blockquote data-quote="Old South Stands" data-source="post: 258811" data-attributes="member: 1036"><p>The six years I played football, I wouldn't trade them for just about anything. If my son wanted to play, I wouldn't discourage him from doing so. No other sport in the world builds the kind of team bonding that football does. Baseball is more of an individualistic sport. You can go an entire season of baseball with someone in the dugout holding a grudge against you, hoping you strike out, etc. In football, even people who started out your enemy at the beginning of the season will have a grudging respect for you by team banquet night because you fought alongside him in the trenches, depending on each other to execute your job. People look back many years later and miss their years playing football and the comraderie that came out of that... Few probably look back and miss their years playing soccer, or even remember who was on their team.</p><p></p><p>There was a recent study (done at UGA of all places?) that showed 5 sports with a higher concussion rate than football, and the number one on the list -- surprisingly -- was cheerleading! I guess cheerleaders get dropped a lot. Ice hockey came in higher than football, and even soccer. Wrestling might have been on that list. All the 'heading' people do with the soccer ball causes enough cumulative low-level brain damage equal to having genuine concussions. Plus some of those guys get messed up pretty bad in collisions at the higher level.</p><p></p><p>Pop Warner football is reasonably safe; by high school, the guys can get really big. My last organized football came in the pre-season as a 120-lb tenth grader... after a vicious hit on a punt return I got a stinger that numbed my entire right side. Wasn't permanently damaging, but it was at that moment l knew that playing football as an adult was a whole different animal from playing Pop Warner. Just the pure physics of it. Playing in the NFL is insanity. Those guys are getting paid literally to have their bodies broken for people's entertainment. Joe Montana thought he got out of the game early enough, and for ten years he was okay. Now he can't even play a game of pickup basketball with his nephews. Most NFLers likely won't have concussion issues... But there's a whole host of other health issues like bad joints and arthritis these guys get after playing the game a total of 15-20 years.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Old South Stands, post: 258811, member: 1036"] The six years I played football, I wouldn't trade them for just about anything. If my son wanted to play, I wouldn't discourage him from doing so. No other sport in the world builds the kind of team bonding that football does. Baseball is more of an individualistic sport. You can go an entire season of baseball with someone in the dugout holding a grudge against you, hoping you strike out, etc. In football, even people who started out your enemy at the beginning of the season will have a grudging respect for you by team banquet night because you fought alongside him in the trenches, depending on each other to execute your job. People look back many years later and miss their years playing football and the comraderie that came out of that... Few probably look back and miss their years playing soccer, or even remember who was on their team. There was a recent study (done at UGA of all places?) that showed 5 sports with a higher concussion rate than football, and the number one on the list -- surprisingly -- was cheerleading! I guess cheerleaders get dropped a lot. Ice hockey came in higher than football, and even soccer. Wrestling might have been on that list. All the 'heading' people do with the soccer ball causes enough cumulative low-level brain damage equal to having genuine concussions. Plus some of those guys get messed up pretty bad in collisions at the higher level. Pop Warner football is reasonably safe; by high school, the guys can get really big. My last organized football came in the pre-season as a 120-lb tenth grader... after a vicious hit on a punt return I got a stinger that numbed my entire right side. Wasn't permanently damaging, but it was at that moment l knew that playing football as an adult was a whole different animal from playing Pop Warner. Just the pure physics of it. Playing in the NFL is insanity. Those guys are getting paid literally to have their bodies broken for people's entertainment. Joe Montana thought he got out of the game early enough, and for ten years he was okay. Now he can't even play a game of pickup basketball with his nephews. Most NFLers likely won't have concussion issues... But there's a whole host of other health issues like bad joints and arthritis these guys get after playing the game a total of 15-20 years. [/QUOTE]
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