Will you/ do you let your kid play football?

[Brooklyn Bully]

I'll never have kids, but if I did, I don't think I'd let him play football. Baseball, soccer, basketball, sure. 

 

http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/02/us/new-york-football-player-death/index.html

[thefuzz]

Absolutely.

 

 

Learned lot's of great lessons in my playing days.

[Cary Kollins]

Nope. At this point it begs the question "what kind of parent would let their child play football?"

 

 

 

 

was the third high school football player to die in the last week, according to published reports.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/02/us/new-york-football-player-death/index.html

 

 

 

According to the Boston-based Sports Legacy Institute non-profit organization, athletes with a history of repetitive brain trauma are prone to being diagnosed with CTE, which involves the building-up on the brain tissue of an abnormal protein called tau. Although CTE can only be diagnosed with a post-mortem examination, athletes who lived with the disease can show symptoms that include memory loss, confusion, impaired judgment, paranoia, impulse control problems, aggression, depression, and progressive dementia before death.

 

http://rt.com/usa/192316-frontline-football-brain-cte/

 

 

 

[SCMunnerlyn1]

I will and my kid will be the kid that the other parents want banned because he "hits too hard"

[Anybodyhome]

I can see it now....

 

"My chess-playing kid beat up your football playing kid" bumperstickers

[cookinbrak]

Would you let your kid drive? I guarantee more than 3 students died in traffic accidents last week.

[KJ89]

Yes.

[Brooklyn Bully]

Would you let your kid drive? I guarantee more than 3 students died in traffic accidents last week.

 

Apples and oranges. Nice try though.

[MadHatter]

My son is 5'9"....weighs 146 lbs...and runs like a white boy.

Football was never in his future

[JJman]

I played QB for two seasons in High School and had the time of my life doing it. So absolutely.

[h0llywood]

I had 3 concussions in high school and I would still let my kids play. 

[Scrumtrilescent]

He's only 13 days old and I'm already getting angry he hasn't started shaking off his first read.  

[TheAmericanDream]

Currently my son plays. He loves it.

[Panthro]

Rugby