California Bill Banning Football for Kids Under 12 Passes Committee
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Actually mine too. I wasn't a pussy then due to my tuff logger upbringing and because I had an older, way bigger brother to try to keep up with. Our grade school principle used to play smear the queer with us. The first time I put on a baseball glove at age 6 my dad drilled me right in the nose. After we stopped the bleeding he said "you ready? This time catch it with the glove instead of your face."TheHB said:
My PeeWee age self just transported into the future to say, "oh yeah?"chuck said:I don't support legislating personal safety. I was against seatbelt and helmet laws and against banning smoking in privately owned establishments.
I don't really get peewee football. My brother and many friends got involved in it. Kids that age are 99% pussies and can't play the game right. Our community had a number of moms, normally anti government types, who went on a crusade to end the league after their own precious, future superstars got hurt. Funny how attitudes change when something happens close to home.
I think tackle peewee FB benefits about 1% of the kids who take part in terms of their development though. We learned what we needed by playing flag or touch football (when supervised) or tackle/smear the queer when not. My first organized tackle football team (7th grade) had exactly one kid who was a bit more advanced in his tackling technique than the rest of us due to playing organized peewee ball. It took about a week of practice for the other good athletes to catch up.
Bottom line is that I don't care. California gonna California. Play flag football until junior high. Maybe it will work and keep kids engaged. Don't know. I don't think doing that in itself will degrade the quality or quantity of FBS talent. Peewee age kids suck either way. -
My 7th grade neighbor is sitting out next year because he didn't get snacks at end of game
Same game, different bag
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Pretty clear rule: Don't fuck with the Lynnwoods. Lived there a spell in college. Later Tacoma too.BleachedAnusDawg said:
So good I decided to Google it as I'm not Pup.TurdBomber said:
A similar great day occurred in Lynnwood, WA in the late 90s, when the neighborhood was informed a Level 3 Sex Offender was moving back to the neighborhood, so the Ford Ranger/Nissan Pickup driving neighborhood dads burned his house down.Swaye said:
If a politician put this bill forward in Texas their house would be burned down within a week. You do not fuck with football in Texas.89ute said:Glad we don't recruit California anymore. You don't see this shit in Texas.
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-08-01-mn-19079-story.html
Conclusion: Lynnwood was off-white Tacoma when I lived there. -
The working class doesn't have time for that compassion/forgiveness/rehabilitation shit.dirtysouwfdawg said:
Hole e shit.TurdBomber said:
A similar great day occurred in Lynnwood, WA in the late 90s, when the neighborhood was informed a Level 3 Sex Offender was moving back to the neighborhood, so the Ford Ranger/Nissan Pickup driving neighborhood dads burned his house down.Swaye said:
If a politician put this bill forward in Texas their house would be burned down within a week. You do not fuck with football in Texas.89ute said:Glad we don't recruit California anymore. You don't see this shit in Texas.
That’s a good short story. -
Fucking great design year. And you almost wrecked one. Asshole.TheHB said:
Yeah, I should have clarified that it was my first football concussion. I got my first concussion in second grade when my bike collided with the front fender of a 1967 Mustang. Needless to say, the car owner was not sympathetic to my cause.RaceBannon said:
Started getting concussions boxing my brother in grade school.TheHB said:
Started playing PeeWee football when I was 9. Got my first concussion before fourth grade classes even started.Sandra6 said:GreenRiverGatorz said:
Who knows how much is out there since diagnosis is post-mortem. This study shows a stark increase in risk with players in the NFL versus college and high school. There's a lot of high level math and statistics jargon in there, so someone smarter than me will have to conclude whether or not this study touches on prevalence of high school players vs gen pop.YellowSnow said:
@GreenRiverGatorz what is the data on CTE for kids that only played through HS or College? Honest and not loaded question. I'm not well versed in this subject.GreenRiverGatorz said:For real though, football is quickly becoming a sport for the poors. Unless they're destined to be a QB or kicker, you're signing your kid up for early onset CTE with the end goal of surviving for a few years in the NFL and getting a paycheck that's only guaranteed week to week.
Why do that when the Saudis and LA Dodgers are throwing around 9 figure guaranteed deals?
Seems like if HS Football alone cause CTE, there would be a lot more CTE out there. And nowadays, I would think the equipment and protocols are much better.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9989358/#:~:text=We therefore estimated that high,, respectively (Table 3).
I have a really hard time imagining that boys under 12 are strong enough to give each other CTE.
Something tells me that football gets more and more dangerous as you get to higher levels of play. Maybe there’s occasional CTE in high school football. But the NFL, where you’re playing against not just grown men, but the very strongest grown men in America-that’s really where CTE explodes.
Is there seriously even one documented case of CTE resulting from the puny hits somebody got in Pop Warner at age 11 or younger?
Huh?
What?
