Oso planning to go pro
Death of modern football as we know it? Chance this gets passed is probably slim to none but it is interesting.https://www.google.com/amp/s/chicago.suntimes.com/sports/proposed-law-could-ban-tackle-football-for-children-under-age-12-in-illinois/amp/
There's no reason to be playing tackle football before age 12 anyway.
I doubt it's the death of anything. When I was a kid, nobody tackled until middle school. The generation before didn't tackle until high school If anything, it may introduce more kids to the game whose parents are unfortable having them tackle when they're too young.
Not anything close to death, in fact I think it would save the game. Yes, you might lose a few participants to other sports (my dad wouldn't let me play football until high school and by the time I got there I was in ODP so wasn't going to switch to football even though I would have been good at it) but ultimately it would lower the instances of injury and concerns of concussion issues which is more likely to kill popularity.
Baloney.We had more fun than children are entitled to have playing tackle as kids. It was usually something like four-on-four. Most of us were about the same weight and size and couldn't hurt someone to save their's or our lives.On an organized level, my son played tackle beginning at age 7. He had a blast and, again, the weights were relatively comparable. He stopped as a sophomore in high school when he looked at the size of the guys lining up opposite him and KNEW he would be killed.If you're going to apply some arbitrary standard to youth football, then you better do so to other sports. My daughter, the elegant hard-charger who was the Mongol Horde of soccer players, had far more injuries and concessions playing soccer than my son ever did playing football.
Man, I hate both of these Superbowl teams so much .. want both of them to lose.http://m.startribune.com/an-open-letter-from-kentucky-to-the-people-of-minnesota-about-those-eagles-fans/470788223/After the Vikings beat the Saints, my father and I decided to go to Philadelphia the following week for the NFC Championship Game. It turned out to be one of the biggest mistakes I have ever made — and it had nothing to do with the outcome of the game. I witnessed, and experienced, the rudest, most obnoxious and violent behavior I have ever seen at a sporting event.From the moment we got on the subway to go to the game until the time we made it back to our hotel room afterward, we were subjected to constant verbal and physical assault. We were called names I can’t repeat because they are unfit for print. We were shoved, had objects thrown at us and were warned that if the Vikings won, we would be lucky to make it out alive.I have never been to a sporting event where I feared for my safety until last Sunday. All because I had the audacity to come to the game wearing a Vikings jersey.I wish I could say that this behavior came from only a few individuals. Unfortunately, it was pervasive. And those who did not participate stood idly by and watched it happen. I have no problem with Eagles fans celebrating a historic win. That’s the joy of sport. But you can do so with class and not ruin the time of fellow football fans whose only “crime” is being from another part of the country.I am not sure how it became culturally acceptable in Philadelphia to behave in such a manner, but it’s a shame. I was literally embarrassed to be a human.
Yeah, that Millie thing .. wow. I mean, it's one thing to say "eff that 99 year old grandmother who wants to see the Vikings win" .. it takes an entirely higher plane of d-baggery to go out and buy materials for a banner, paint it, and parade it around proudly.Then you think, well, only a couple guys are d-bags ... until you find out there were MULTIPLE banners .. I mean, you have to wake up early to plan that level of a-holitude. (Or maybe it comes naturally.)
pick-up "tackle" football in the neighborhood is a totally different than organized padded football prior to high school.
We didn't have a football team in high school so we would play tackle behind the school every few weeks or so.But man, some of those hits were viscous and very few of us had any chance of playing varsity football if our school had a team.That being said, injuries were relatively minor because when you don't wear pads l, nobody is going head first or even shoulder first. NFL should go back to thin pads and Lester helmets.
Wuz BeeJay hittin' on adolescents again orr wuz he at da glory hole, hey?
Rates of concussions in rugby are higher than in football. A lack of pads and helmets would make the problem worse. What would improve the problem is proper tackling.
Not sure what you are disputing. Rugby, a sport that involves tackling (like football) without significant padding (like you are advocating) has a higher concussion rate than football.https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-concussion-youth-sports/concussion-rates-highest-for-kids-in-rugby-hockey-and-football-idUSKBN0TZ2RE20151216"For each of the sports, they looked at concussion rates based on minutes of athletic exposure (AE), which includes competitions or practices with the potential for injury.The overall concussion risk across all of the sports included in the analysis was 0.23 injuries per 1,000 AEs.By comparison, the concussion risk per 1,000 AEs for rugby was 4.18, while it was 1.2 for hockey and 0.53 for American football."
I'm disputing that proper tackling fixes the problem.