liberals GROW UP! the world isn';t this flower bed, like you think it is!!
our kids are smarter and tougher then you liberals would have us believe!
we do not need government holding our hands while driving, or crossing the street!
if you can't handle seeing your kid getting hurt (like every normal kid) then maybe you should not have any!
personally i would not enrol my kids (if i had any) in football, only because i don't like football, i would enrol my kids into gymnastics and snowboarding and sports like that (can be much more dangerous then football, but its worth it).
Would You Let Your Kids Play Football?
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2013/02/03 19:47:55
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The National Football League has done what it can to make the game safer. At least, that is according to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell. Unfortunately for the NFL and Goodell, not everyone agrees. The NFL Players Association recently claimed most professional football players don't trust their team doctors.
That revelation comes on top of a class action lawsuit against the NFL by former players, claiming that the league had information for decades about brain injuries and hid data from them. To make matters even worse, in between all the Super Bowl XLVII hype, President Barack Obama was asked if he would let a hypothetical son play football. The President said he doesn't think he would and all of a sudden, the NFL's safety is under fire when the spotlight is brightest.
Commissioner Goodell has since come out on "Face The Nation" saying he would "absolutely" let his kids play the sport. Football still remains the king of sports in the U.S., but there is only so much bad press the NFL can take before it might have to make even bigger changes for the sake of player safety.
That revelation comes on top of a class action lawsuit against the NFL by former players, claiming that the league had information for decades about brain injuries and hid data from them. To make matters even worse, in between all the Super Bowl XLVII hype, President Barack Obama was asked if he would let a hypothetical son play football. The President said he doesn't think he would and all of a sudden, the NFL's safety is under fire when the spotlight is brightest.
Commissioner Goodell has since come out on "Face The Nation" saying he would "absolutely" let his kids play the sport. Football still remains the king of sports in the U.S., but there is only so much bad press the NFL can take before it might have to make even bigger changes for the sake of player safety.
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democoach 2013/02/03 20:49:35
Really bad Head Butts.
If my kid wants to play football I'll help him be the best. If he wants to play piano I'll help him be the best. My kid get to pick what he wants to do and I'm going to help him do it... unless it's doing drugs or being a liberal activist.
In our Football codes, Rugby and Aussie Rules, you don't wear any padding or a helmet!
In the Annual Survey of Catastrophic Football Injuries done by the University of North Carolina, it shows that the numbers estimated as:
3,000,000 youth players
1,135,000 high school players grades 9-12
100,000 post high school players
for a total of 4,200,000 kids playing tackle football in this country.
During the 2011 football season there were a total of 8 cervical cord injuries with incomplete neurological recoveries and 14 brain injuries which resulted in incomplete recovery. So we're talking about 22 kids out of 4.2 MILLION players or 0.000523%
So that's a 1-in-190,900 chance of being paralyzed or brain damaged. During that same one year period in 2011 there were 32,367 Americans that died in car accidents.... out of population of 311,591,917. So, according to the National Safety Council this means your one-year odds of dying in a car accident in 2011 was about 1-in-9,626.
Boy I tell ya this guy in the Oval Office sure is good for business! LMAOff!
my fantasy team
It's soccer rather..
NFL teams play 16 regular-season games a year. They rarely play more than once a week. And each team gets a bye week.
In the playoffs, an NHL team might play more than 20 games. Those games are every other night. In the NFL, a team plays no more than 4 postseason games. They get at least five days off in between. For the Super Bowl, they get two weeks off.
The NHL has had many players in its history who have not only played, but even excelled, past the age of 40. The NFL has had very few such players, and most of those have been kickers, who don't see a lot of physical contact.
Based on all those numbers, I think it's very safe to say that football puts MUCH more of a beating on the body than hockey does.
Come on, it's not even close.