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Poll: Parents uncomfortable with youth football
Associated Press ^ | Aug. 28, 2014 3:43 AM EDT | Kurt Voigt

Posted on 08/28/2014 2:25:24 AM PDT by Olog-hai

Parents are worried about their children playing football, but most haven’t decided to keep their kids from putting on a helmet and stepping onto the field.

According to an Associated Press-GfK poll, nearly half of parents said they’re not comfortable letting their child play football amid growing uncertainty about the long-term impact of concussions.

In the poll, 44 percent of parents weren’t comfortable with their child playing football. The same percentage was uncomfortable with ice hockey, and 45 percent were uncomfortable with participation in wrestling. Only five percent, though, said they have discouraged their child from playing in the last two years as concern over head injuries has increased at all levels of the game.

The majority of parents said they are comfortable with participation in a host of other sports—including swimming, track and field, basketball, soccer, baseball and softball, among others. …

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TOPICS: Society; Sports
KEYWORDS: football; liberalagenda
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1 posted on 08/28/2014 2:25:24 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

So don’t enroll your kids in it.

Simple.


2 posted on 08/28/2014 2:31:24 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: Olog-hai

The driving force behind the long-term anti-football movement are feminists. They absolutely hate the fact that women won’t play the sport and for the few that do, nobody watches unless the players are wearing lingerie.


3 posted on 08/28/2014 2:43:44 AM PDT by fso301
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To: Olog-hai

Someday a rough & tough people will just waltz in here and take over. And we’ll deserve it.


4 posted on 08/28/2014 3:09:32 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.)
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To: fso301

Wrong. Some of us don’t want traumatic brain injury for our kids. Team sports are a great formative tool for young men and women as they grow - but we aren’t willing to risk their brains in the process. There are plenty of other team sports available that involve damaging their futures.


5 posted on 08/28/2014 3:13:26 AM PDT by Chainmail (A simple rule of life: if you can be blamed, you're responsible.)
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To: fso301

The lingerie version I might watch, never seen it. I gave up on ball and other sports back in the mid 80s.

The sports loving spouse will have the overblown and overhyped USC religious ceremony on. I have a new game controller to try and DVD’s of The Streets of San Francisco to help me ignore it.


6 posted on 08/28/2014 3:15:49 AM PDT by wally_bert (There are no winners in a game of losers. I'm Tommy Joyce, welcome to the Oriental Lounge.q)
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To: Olog-hai

What crap! The nanny crowd is raising woosies.

When I was in 8th grade (’56), boys would get to school about an hour early in good weather. About 30-40 boys would play ‘tackle the man with the ball’, and just as many girls would stand around to watch. For kids that age, it was sorta like proving your ‘manhood’ to others and trying to impress the girls (like birds do before mating) all at the same time.

A football would be thrown high in the air and the boy who caught it would then be chased by everyone until tackled to the ground. He would then throw the ball and everyone would chase after that ball catcher. ...Just our regular school clothes.

First class period found many boys with busted lips, bloody noses, torn shirts and lots of grass stains. No one went to the nurse’s office. The little minor boo-boos were like badges of honor.


7 posted on 08/28/2014 3:28:41 AM PDT by octex
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To: Olog-hai

You can recognize that an activity has a significant risk of harm without deciding to avoid it. I’m “uncomfortable” with my teenagers’ driving, but they still do it.


8 posted on 08/28/2014 3:46:13 AM PDT by Tax-chick (No power in the 'verse can stop me.)
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To: Olog-hai

Just stick them in their darkened bedroom with a video game with a family size bag of potato chips and a liter of soda.../s


9 posted on 08/28/2014 3:49:29 AM PDT by RetSignman (Obama is the walking, talking middle finger in the face of America)
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To: Olog-hai
Kids must have softer heads these days. I never wore a helmet for anything and I am not sitting in the corner drooling on myself.

The question parents should ask themselves is, why am I pushing my 4 year old into every sport imaginable?

10 posted on 08/28/2014 4:04:53 AM PDT by defconw (Both parties have clearly lost their minds!)
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To: Olog-hai

More children visit the emergency room with head trauma injuries as a result of riding bicycles, skateboards and jumping on trampolines than playing football but you don’t see the same hysteria by the media or soccer mom crowd. Definitely an agenda.


11 posted on 08/28/2014 4:06:27 AM PDT by Leo58 (Those who cheer you today will curse you tomorrow, the only thing that endures is character.)
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To: Chainmail

You sound like the usual liberal puss, or the wimpy busybody mom who won’t let her kids play sports. I thank God my parents were so unlike your kind.


12 posted on 08/28/2014 4:16:17 AM PDT by ohioman
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To: Chainmail

I take back my name calling, but will never agree with your dislike of football. A sport that has opened many doors for my family. I think liberal scum in this country will eventually have it outlawed. F them all.


13 posted on 08/28/2014 4:19:42 AM PDT by ohioman
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To: Chainmail

Plenty of concussions in youth soccer.


14 posted on 08/28/2014 4:20:12 AM PDT by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Mississippi!)
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To: Night Hides Not
“Plenty of concussions in youth soccer.”

Plenty of concussions in soccer, and the whole issue of the long-term effects of heading the ball.

15 posted on 08/28/2014 4:32:05 AM PDT by pieceofthepuzzle
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To: octex

Ha!

We did the same thing when I was in the 8th grade (5 years after you), except we called it “Maul Ball.” Great fun...


16 posted on 08/28/2014 4:36:56 AM PDT by VMI70
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To: Olog-hai

“In the poll, 44 percent of parents weren’t comfortable with their child playing football...Only five percent, though, said they have discouraged their child from playing.”

Why the discrepancy?

Easy, football gives one set of parents BRAGGING RIGHTS over the non-football parents. Worth a bunch of concussions and early-onset old-timers disease, I guess, to most of those parents.


17 posted on 08/28/2014 4:46:16 AM PDT by BobL
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To: VMI70

On my playground, it was known as “Smear the Queer”.


18 posted on 08/28/2014 5:01:40 AM PDT by gatorhead
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To: RetSignman

I’ve seen enough of that with “modern” so-called parents. How anyone can voluntarily live like that is beyond me.


19 posted on 08/28/2014 5:02:05 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: gatorhead

Before gay was a bad thing.


20 posted on 08/28/2014 5:08:13 AM PDT by showme_the_Glory ((ILLEGAL: prohibited by law. ALIEN: Owing political allegiance to another country or government))
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