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Actually the head trauma is worse before a certain age......
Mar 4, 2018, 9:10 PM
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or potentially worse. Their skulls aren't developed yet and are softer. At least that what the doctors say.
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Re: Actually the head trauma is worse before a certain age......
Mar 4, 2018, 9:13 PM
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Have you ever seen 8 year olds play football... they don’t even really tackle. Give them this then next thing you know they will keep raising the age and football will be gone
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Football isn't going anywhere....
Mar 4, 2018, 9:17 PM
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The US population continues to grow and there will always a be a huge supply of football players. There will always be some great athletes out there playing. It's huge.
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Athletic Dir [881]
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That comment sounds like the result of childhood head trauma
Mar 5, 2018, 6:30 AM
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. If we can prevent head trauma in kids, we prevent another Trump in the future.
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110%er [6320]
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You misspelled Obama
Mar 5, 2018, 10:44 AM
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The most corrupt president in the nations history, which is being proven in Congress as we speak. Half of his administration may be in jail before it is all said and done.
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I prefer Slippery Slope Theory.***
Mar 5, 2018, 1:51 PM
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Re: Step one of taking away football
Mar 4, 2018, 9:16 PM
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That isn't all that bad . Fundamentals of proper tackling aside , there will be changes made in this way over the coming years .
Remember how Dale's death prompted all of the changes NASCAR made to prevent it from happening again ? Same deal .
It's not particularly political , the need to be safer with our kid's brains and spines .
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Re: Step one of taking away football
Mar 4, 2018, 9:25 PM
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As long as this means kids will spend less time outdoors im all for it. And this is exactly what I need my statehouse members doing!
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Re: Step one of taking away football
Mar 4, 2018, 10:19 PM
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Doc...there is no question you know far more than I ever will on this subject and I mean no disrespect, but when you link an article to The NY Times as reference to your point, your post loses any credibility. The last time the NY reported the news rather than print lies to further the liberal agenda was sometime during first term of the Reagan administration.
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Don’t believe the crazy stuff Alex Jones tells you
Mar 5, 2018, 6:36 AM
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Not only does Trump watch CNN for the “real news” everyday before he turns to Fox & Friends for his ego boost, he has staffers summarize both the NYT and WaPost front and editorial pages.
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Re: Don’t believe the crazy stuff Alex Jones tells you
Mar 5, 2018, 12:13 PM
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wait you actually think CNN is a legit news source....
oh my that is good #### right there.
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Re: Step one of taking away football
Mar 5, 2018, 7:13 PM
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And girls soccer players have a higher percentage rate of concussions than boys football players. It’s not in the spotlight because of the low number of girls soccer players vs boys football. Also, girls in general have higher rates of concussions than boys largely due to the lack of muscle development in their neck muscles compared to the boys. Lets ban girls sports. It’s dangerous.
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Re: Step one of taking away football
Mar 5, 2018, 5:33 PM
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It’s a fact that watching mainstream TV promotes violence and anti-patriotism.
Where’s the BAN???
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FACT***
Mar 5, 2018, 9:34 PM
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Re: Step one of taking away football
Mar 4, 2018, 9:42 PM
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Really doesn’t have to be a political issue...based on the evidence this makes sense and hopefully more take up the issue soon.
Whether it eventually results in football being banned, who knows...but if so, we will all be ok without football...and I say this as a man who LOVES the game.
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Re: Step one of taking away football
Mar 4, 2018, 9:48 PM
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I have been called a nut but if you know history this is how Nazi Germany started. Slowing passing laws to protect its citizens and then they gradually passed additional laws taking away more and more freedoms. The bankers thought they could control Hitler, he sure proved them wrong. They say history repeats itself. Is it happening now on the United States??The Patriot Act was just a good start. The government has doctors so afraid to treat their patients because of the new drug laws. The addiction rate grows higher everyday regardless of all the strict laws while many suffer every day.
People like Lindsey Graham have no back bone. And we are losing the best congressman we have had in a long time in Trey Gowdy. A great future presidential candidate is going back into law practice.
It scares me where our country is headed. Call me crazy but wait and see what our government continues to do to take away our guns if not our guns the ammo for the guns.
Based on my research gun control never works. We have spent millions for the DEA and what have they accomplished?? Legalize drugs and tax them so you take the profit margin out of the market.
And it all starts with making tackle football an illegal sport for the youth. Tackle football is not the problem it’s the fact the our athletes are are faster and stronger and they play to many games in a season. Take away 4 games in NFL season and you take away a lot of hits. But then you cut into the NFL money machine. They want have that.
Unless we start fighting for our rights we want have any!
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Re: Step one of taking away football
Mar 4, 2018, 10:26 PM
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Yep, not letting kids play tackle football is the first step to being like a political group that was responsible for the death of millions.
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Re: Step one of taking away football
Mar 4, 2018, 9:48 PM
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I'm all for safety and developing equipment to minimize the possibility of serious injury, but we have children playing soccer who wear no helmet or protective gear and I have never seen this issue addressed. Having played high school football in the 1930's when our protective gear was nothing compared to today's gear, I can always use that excuse to explain my mental status.
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Re: Step one of taking away football
Mar 5, 2018, 2:12 AM
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Surely they wear the standard shin guards? Injury rates in soccer are a small fraction of what they are in football. Heading the ball is already banned in the US for kids younger than 11.
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Re: Step one of taking away football
Mar 5, 2018, 7:32 AM
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Mr. Joe, you're in better shape mentally than just about anybody we know!
You're right that football isn't the only sport where traumatic head injuries can occur. Hopefully Shelton Mitchell and BC's Mitchell won't have any long-term effects from Florida State turning round ball into an extreme contact sport. Hopefully this type of play won't be a trend among wanna-be youth coaches. I think one of the key issues here is exactly how these kids are coached, whether they learn to play clean and safely, or if they try to get away with whatever they can.
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Maybe boycotting the NFL is going to kill football?
Mar 5, 2018, 10:37 AM
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Why play if there is not a professional league where there is a chance to make a lot of money?
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Exactly. There is no college football as we know it...
Mar 5, 2018, 11:15 AM
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without the NFL.
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There are thousands upon thousands that play for what...
Mar 5, 2018, 11:33 AM
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they should, love of the game & an education.
College football will do well without the NFL with an education being the light it should be.
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i know one thing
Mar 5, 2018, 1:23 PM
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I got my bell rung at least three times in little league football before the age of 12. Got at least 1 concussion but probably more than that.
Might be why I'm slower than some of you other posters on here. Bob might be a little slower.
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Nah - the slippery slope is not that slippery...***
Mar 5, 2018, 1:40 PM
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This will be devastating to the proud football universities
Mar 5, 2018, 1:49 PM
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of Illinois.
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That's not nice...***
Mar 5, 2018, 1:54 PM
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Re: Step one of taking away football
Mar 5, 2018, 2:02 PM
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greenvillealum07 are you disappointed you won’t get to watch little boys tackle each other anymore?
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good lord....***
Mar 6, 2018, 7:01 AM
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next thing you know they will want to take my guns.. oh wait***
Mar 6, 2018, 7:02 AM
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