• miseducator@lemmy.world
    91·
    3 months ago

    An absolute tragedy, but great on Alabama for only having two people die in the state in two weeks! Gotta be some kind of record!

  • brbposting@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    8·
    3 months ago

    The NFL acknowledged a link between playing American football and being diagnosed with CTE in 2016, after denying such a link for over a decade and arguing that players’ symptoms had other causes.

    -Wiki CTE

    So by ~2031 any new high school freshman tackle football players…

    …have bad parents?

    Or are there equally risky activities I don’t have a problem…

    • AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works
      7·
      3 months ago

      All sports have some level of risk. I’ve got permanent knee issues due to playing softball as a kid. IIRC cheerleading has the highest rate of ER visits for kids sports - the throws and the like are dangerous, and ime parents are slightly more likely to take moderately serious injuries seriously in girls rather than the “walk it off” mentality that my parents and a lot of others have. A shotputter friend has some horrifically wild stories about near misses at their high school.

      Sports have a lot of benefit for a lot of kids though, you have to draw the line somewhere. And I think tackle football is over it, I wouldn’t ban anything else that I know of, but I’d definitely support banning youth tackle football. My parents refused to let my brother or I play tackle football as kids because of the danger, I think some awareness of CTE was out there even back in the 90s.

      • lewdian69@lemmy.world
        115·
        3 months ago

        Tackle football is also suuuuper boring as a sport. I honestly don’t understand why it’s so popular.

        • tamal3@lemmy.world
          5·
          3 months ago

          Have you watched rugby? I don’t like tackle football either, but rugby takes tackling to a whole new transcendent level.

          • lewdian69@lemmy.world
            12·
            3 months ago

            Correct. I said it about American football this time because I don’t understand how it became so popular and we were talking about it.

      • Cosmonauticus@lemmy.world
        4·
        3 months ago

        I wouldn’t go as far as banning all youth football. I’d say anything before high school would be a good idea. Then scrap things like full contract practices, hitting drills, etc.

        I don’t have the study but I remember reading hitting in practice caused the most long term damage. It’s not the big hits but the constant little hits that build up year after year after year

  • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
    4·
    3 months ago

    Can we bring back Gladiatorial combat, make it to first blood and chuck in ship battles. Seriously to first blood would probably be safer for the players overall and would be a lot more tactically impressive, no concussion risk if ya ban blunt weapons.

  • Inucune@lemmy.world
    41·
    3 months ago

    But muh sports complex! Duh church of football! Duh big game is all that matters in life! Day gon gib me a scholarship.