A group of former National Football League greats -- including Hall of Famers Harry Carson of the New York Giants and Nick Buoniconti of the Miami Dolphins -- is urging parents not to let their children play tackle football until they're at least 14 years old.
The group is instead endorsing a program called "Flag Football Under 14," launched by the Concussion Legacy Foundation. The program aims to educate parents and young players about chronic traumatic encephalopathy.
Sometimes called CTE, it is a degenerative brain disease caused by repeated blows to the head, and has been detected in more than 85 percent of tackle football players studied over the past 10 years, according to the foundation.
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They wouldn't of had concussions if they didn't take steroids and go crazy.
ReplyDelete6:34 AM, Do you really know that for a fact? All that head banging and being knocked around all the time has got to cause problems down the road.
ReplyDelete6:34 idiotic statement. Maybe for you to achieve that level of fitness you'd need steroids. Teaching better tackling from a young age as well as updated safety equipment will reduce the number of concussions but in a contact sport they can never be eliminated. That's the risk you allow your child to take.
ReplyDeleteThe Redskins stopped tackling many years ago.
ReplyDeleteThere's a study from last fall in the New England journal that shows heavy metal concerts and the effects on CTE are prevalent. Go figure...... Everyone now a days is jumping on this bandwagon.
ReplyDelete8:12 That there is funny.
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