How long before Obama issues an Executive Order mandating... 
T-Football as the only football allowed in the USA?
Posted on 12/01/2013 8:03:42 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
For Eddie Mason, the decision wasn’t difficult. The NFL veteran’s 10-year-old son, Tyler, won’t play tackle football until high school.
Mr. Mason’s decision wasn’t a result of the burgeoning national discussion about football’s role in brain injuries. Instead, he believes children should learn the game’s fundamentals without tackling. Mr. Mason, who played three seasons at linebacker for the Redskins before retiring in 2003, sees a problematic culture infecting football’s lowest levels that’s inextricably connected to the safety concerns.
“This brash kind of mindset, the underdog mindset,” Mr. Mason said, “this hard-core attitude kind of deal about who hits the hardest [is part of the issue]. If you look back over the last eight to 10 years, players showing up in the NFL are technically unsound. We’re eight to 10 years behind developing fundamentals for how to play the sport.
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Yup! They’ll all be getting scholarships to become metrosexual ESPN sports reporters. Of course, by then, they’ll have nothing to report. I guess they could go with “virtual” computer generated games. The robots can sit on the couch drinking “virtual” beer while they watch the “games”.
A boon for soccer moms until the “We know what’s best for you crowd” starts in on head injuries from ‘heading’ the ball. There is nothing that the libs will not try to control. After all, they learn everything there is to know from their discussions in the teachers lounge. Clymers all!
I love hearing some of the respondent's opinions of manhood while most of them have carefully avoiding risk to themselves.
I don't have a problem with youth sports, but I emphasize the word youth here. My biggest pet peeve about these sports leagues is the involvement of adults. I would never allow a child to play organized sports until he or she is in high school (at the earliest).
If kids want to play football, they can do it the way we did and go out in the grass themselves. Nothing does more to raise a generation of wimps than to etch in a child's mind the idea that they can't do any of these things unless they're being supervised by adults.
I went in the grocery store last Sunday. 90% of the adults were wearing football jerseys in some weird tribalist tradition.
I am standing by the cheese aisle trying to get past a 40ish husband and wife in matching Pittsburgh Steeler jerseys when a friend of theirs walks up in his Denver Broncos Jersey. After the initial greetings I hear Broncos say, "Did you guys win today?"
My head was ready to explode.
Having played and coached youth sports in the past, I can say with some credibility that Pop Warner football, Little League baseball, etc. are doing a lot more harm than good. The exposure to physical injuries is only a very small part of the problem.
I disagree. The game today is much faster and the players are a lot bigger. This translates into harder hits.
Go ahead and look at clips on YouTube of football games played back in the 1950s and 1960s. The players were basically crew-cut men who were mostly under 6 feet and 180 pounds. Yes, they were tough and strong but nothing like the 270+ pound behemoths that we have out on the field today (that can run 40 yards in 4.4 seconds). Also, the "hits" were much cleaner in those days. You didn't have gorillas slamming people to the ground and then getting up and pounding their chests for the cameras.
I've been watching NFL football for close to 40 years and I'm telling you the game has changed. The game used to be much more sportsmanlike and gentlemanly. Now you have a large number of trash-talking gangsters who either have or will do a stretch in prison.
How long before Obama issues an Executive Order mandating... T-Football as the only football allowed in the USA?
There is certainly no shortage of armchair tough guys around here.
Years ago I had two sons who were into little league baseball. At one of my elder son’s games I was sitting in the bleachers when it was announced an umpire was needed. The crowd looked at me and I took the task. It wasn’t long into the game when I started getting remarks from the crowd/parents. One lady got especially nasty in her remarks. After one remark I took off the mask ,put it on home plate, and just walked away. After that I didn’t do much to keep my sons interested in little league though I believe the older son had a real talent for baseball.
You see it every game in the NFL. Players with absolutely no tackling fundamentals at all. All they know how to do is ram someone or use their head as a projectile.
You continually see multiple players on defense miss tackles that could have easily been made with proper training.
Instead, the goal is to see who can spear or ram someone the hardest causing a concussion in 9 out of 10 instances.
The solution, as author Malcolm Gladwell (love him or not!) has suggested, may be to impose height and weight limits on tackle football players even at the NFL level. What will happen when players can’t weigh more than 245 pounds and be taller than 6 feet 4 inches tall?
I had my boy coding Arduino when he was 9. We got him the Raspberry Pi for Christmas. Skills he can take anywhere.
You sum up the sports wacko dad pretty well.
Another thing about types like that are the guys who call in to the local sports dribble show that I make it a point to change the channel when it comes on that seem to almost worship high school kid football players.
It is sad and kind of scary how these older guys can drone on and on about some HS junior at a school that most people have never heard of.
and wanting to star in Glee.
I am amused and saddened a bit by the middle aged and really obese guys in jersies going bonkers watching a game on TV.
Safety guru turns to football helmets
http://www.plasticsnews.com/article/20130926/NEWS/130929935/safety-guru-turns-to-football-helmets#
Inflatable padding
According to Andrew Tucker, football helmets adequately protected players from catastrophic brain injuries, but helmet manufacturers had no motivation to design helmets that decrease the risk of concussions. Vin Ferrara[citation needed], a former Harvard quarterback, accidentally discovered a new way to cushion football helmets. One night, Ferrara was looking for an aspirin when he saw a squirt bottle in his medicine cabinet. As he pumped it and then punched it, he realized that the bottle withstood the blows of different forces. Ferrara immediately came up with the idea to encase football helmets with a number of inflatable pockets in order to cushion the blows a football player receives.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_helmet
I can’t stand sports for the most, especially the modern made for TV format.
But I remember as a kid in the 70s, pro sports having some good merits. Starting in the mid 80s, I saw changes and I lost all interest.
This is absolutely ridiculous. Dammit, life is dangerous! How the hell is this generation of teacup kids supposed to ever function as adults, in a world that's out to kill them?
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