No football before age 12.

[Kingofalldems]

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[dogman]

1. So brain damage after the age of 12 would be ok?

[Kingofalldems]

2. What a smartass post.

I am for banning football period. So there.

[dogman]

3. Sorry you took it personally.

My point is the messaging is incomplete. The study's results were obvious. If it destroys brains, age doesn't really matter.

[Kingofalldems]

4. Exactly. One of the many reasons

I do not follow any football.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

5. Sometime back in the late 70's or early 80's I saw

a show, probably on PBS, which profiled two young men recently retired from their NFL careers. Don't recall their names or what positions they played, but they'd had the typical careers, maybe five years for one and seven for the other.

Both were quite crippled up and weren't much over 30 if they were that old. Each had young children, and getting down on the floor and playing with them was pretty much impossible. If the two young men were showing signs of brain damage it wasn't mentioned. Even so, the extent of their physical impairments was so great that I made up my mind then I'd never let a son of mine play that sport. Luckily, my husband was never at all interested in sports, and both of my sons wound up small enough and sufficiently lacking in the needed skills that doing anything outside of high school P.E. class was out of the question.

[ProfessorGAC]

6. I'm On Board

Boys and girls basketball teams in front of the store: here's a couple bucks!
Little league baseball or softball, same!
Cheerleaders, dance groups, etc. Here's a couple bucks!
Never for youth tackle football
Never have, never will

[H2O Man]

7. It's a violent sport.

And "under 12" involves a lot of brain development.

I have more physical injuries from playing football as a teen, than from all the boxing I did.