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brbposting ,

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 ,

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 ,

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

Cosmonauticus ,

You can literally say that about anything anyone enjoys…

Cosmonauticus ,

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

subignition ,
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Tellier was “a shining light every day he graced the halls of Morgan Academy,” school headmaster Bryan Oliver said on Facebook. “He was a student, a friend, an athlete and most important a Christ follower.

Ugh. Really got your priorities in order there, Mr. Oliver

idiomaddict ,

I’ve been to the funeral of a 22 year old from a family of true believer born again Christians. It was bizarre. I was the saddest person there and we were only sort of friends. The rest of them honestly believed that he was chilling with Jesus and it would be silly to be sad.

Since then, I’ve noticed that people emphasize the religiosity of the dead when they are trying to reduce their feelings of guilt.

PrincessLeiasCat ,

When my Dad died young, 60 or so, the so many “sympathy cards” that we had to read after the funeral emphasized this. I was at such a low point - we were very close and his death was an absolute nightmare - yet it was as if they were comforting themselves by letting me know he was with Jesus now.

And it just made the entire situation somehow worse and more demented.

werefreeatlast ,

Maybe invent a game where you gotta tickle people instead of slamming up against them.

Deceptichum ,
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Tickle not tackle. Coaches favourite game to play.

miseducator ,

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!

CaptainSpaceman ,

for only having two kids die on the football field*

FTFY

AnarchoSnowPlow ,

During two a days my freshman year we had to stop practice for a bit when a JV guy got hit low, flipped over, and landed on his neck. Ambulance took him off. Coach was pissed we had mandatory water breaks “cause some pussy died last year.”

I don’t think he made the team.

(Also in Alabama)

jeffw OP ,
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Roll tide! /s

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