Subby has a severe reading comprehension problem.

Reading comprehension fail? Or did ESPN just make subby look foolish by correcting something?

If my son was dating Gesell Bunchen thats all I would talk about too

CheatCommando: Subby has a severe reading comprehension problem.

Notsomuch. Tom Brady, Jr. and I are roughly the same age. My dad didn't let me play football until junior high, but it wasn't because of fears of concussions. He was more concerned with things like tearing up knees, Achilles, etc. Did I ever get a concussion playing football? Not that I know of. Did I get one doing other things? Yep. Did the doctors freak out back then about it? Nope. It'd be different these days.

Children should not be allowed to play full contact sports as they have been proven to cause brain damage. Both football and hockey at the high school level and below should be forced to move to non-contact rules.

Slaves2Darkness: Children should not be allowed to play full contact sports as they have been proven to cause brain damage. Both football and hockey at the high school level and below should be forced to move to non-contact rules.

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hurdboy: CheatCommando: Subby has a severe reading comprehension problem.

Notsomuch. Tom Brady, Jr. and I are roughly the same age. My dad didn't let me play football until junior high, but it wasn't because of fears of concussions. He was more concerned with things like tearing up knees, Achilles, etc. Did I ever get a concussion playing football? Not that I know of. Did I get one doing other things? Yep. Did the doctors freak out back then about it? Nope. It'd be different these days.

None of which has anything to do with whether or not Brady Sr. knows his son plays football. I was half expecting to see a report that he had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's based on the headline.

Slaves2Darkness: Children should not be allowed to play full contact sports as they have been proven to cause brain damage. Both football and hockey at the high school level and below should be forced to move to non-contact rules.

I'm sure spending time in a dark basement with only the glow of a computer screen as a source of light is much healthier. Not to mention drinking cases of Mountain Dew and eating Cheetos. Plus no sex.

It's not the kids getting ruined by concussions. It's the adults and young adults with fully developed bodies ramming each other at full speed. If you watch mighty mights play, you'll see that they are not going to get anywhere near the same types of injuries as 6'6 275lbs athletes that are damn near pure muscle smashing in to each other at 4.4 40 speed time

CheatCommando: None of which has anything to do with whether or not Brady Sr. knows his son plays football. I was half expecting to see a report that he had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's based on the headline.

Sorry, misread.

//Headline still doesn't come anywhere close to this one.

bhcompy: It's not the kids getting ruined by concussions. It's the adults and young adults with fully developed bodies ramming each other at full speed. If you watch mighty mights play, you'll see that they are not going to get anywhere near the same types of injuries as 6'6 275lbs athletes that are damn near pure muscle smashing in to each other at 4.4 40 speed time

Children are getting concussions -- particularly boy's football and girl's soccer.

meanmutton: bhcompy: It's not the kids getting ruined by concussions. It's the adults and young adults with fully developed bodies ramming each other at full speed. If you watch mighty mights play, you'll see that they are not going to get anywhere near the same types of injuries as 6'6 275lbs athletes that are damn near pure muscle smashing in to each other at 4.4 40 speed time

Children are getting concussions -- particularly boy's football and girl's soccer.

As a pop warner coach the past few years I've seen no major head injury problems. Mostly broken fingers, sprained ankles, etc. Do you have any data?

My son has tried baseball, basketball, hockey and football at one time or another. The only sport he stuck with...and the sport he's very good at is baseball. I was rather relieved when he gave up football.

It is good to see from the sidebar that Elway is continuing his off season of underwhelming roster additions and subtractions.

bhcompy: meanmutton: bhcompy: It's not the kids getting ruined by concussions. It's the adults and young adults with fully developed bodies ramming each other at full speed. If you watch mighty mights play, you'll see that they are not going to get anywhere near the same types of injuries as 6'6 275lbs athletes that are damn near pure muscle smashing in to each other at 4.4 40 speed time

Children are getting concussions -- particularly boy's football and girl's soccer.

As a pop warner coach the past few years I've seen no major head injury problems. Mostly broken fingers, sprained ankles, etc. Do you have any data?

Link

Rate of concussions for boy's football is 0.6 concussions per 1,000 athletic exposures (i.e., a game featuring 30 players a side is 60 athletic exposures) and for girl's soccer is 0.35 concussions per 1,000 athletic exposures.

meanmutton: bhcompy: meanmutton: bhcompy: It's not the kids getting ruined by concussions. It's the adults and young adults with fully developed bodies ramming each other at full speed. If you watch mighty mights play, you'll see that they are not going to get anywhere near the same types of injuries as 6'6 275lbs athletes that are damn near pure muscle smashing in to each other at 4.4 40 speed time

Children are getting concussions -- particularly boy's football and girl's soccer.

As a pop warner coach the past few years I've seen no major head injury problems. Mostly broken fingers, sprained ankles, etc. Do you have any data?

Link

Rate of concussions for boy's football is 0.6 concussions per 1,000 athletic exposures (i.e., a game featuring 30 players a side is 60 athletic exposures) and for girl's soccer is 0.35 concussions per 1,000 athletic exposures.

Those are high school stats

bhcompy: meanmutton: bhcompy: meanmutton: bhcompy: It's not the kids getting ruined by concussions. It's the adults and young adults with fully developed bodies ramming each other at full speed. If you watch mighty mights play, you'll see that they are not going to get anywhere near the same types of injuries as 6'6 275lbs athletes that are damn near pure muscle smashing in to each other at 4.4 40 speed time

Children are getting concussions -- particularly boy's football and girl's soccer.

As a pop warner coach the past few years I've seen no major head injury problems. Mostly broken fingers, sprained ankles, etc. Do you have any data?

Link

Rate of concussions for boy's football is 0.6 concussions per 1,000 athletic exposures (i.e., a game featuring 30 players a side is 60 athletic exposures) and for girl's soccer is 0.35 concussions per 1,000 athletic exposures.

Those are high school stats

What age group are you looking at?

High school is still younger than "young adults with fully developed bodies".

meanmutton: bhcompy: meanmutton: bhcompy: meanmutton: bhcompy: It's not the kids getting ruined by concussions. It's the adults and young adults with fully developed bodies ramming each other at full speed. If you watch mighty mights play, you'll see that they are not going to get anywhere near the same types of injuries as 6'6 275lbs athletes that are damn near pure muscle smashing in to each other at 4.4 40 speed time

Children are getting concussions -- particularly boy's football and girl's soccer.

As a pop warner coach the past few years I've seen no major head injury problems. Mostly broken fingers, sprained ankles, etc. Do you have any data?

Link

Rate of concussions for boy's football is 0.6 concussions per 1,000 athletic exposures (i.e., a game featuring 30 players a side is 60 athletic exposures) and for girl's soccer is 0.35 concussions per 1,000 athletic exposures.

Those are high school stats

What age group are you looking at?

High school is still younger than "young adults with fully developed bodies".

Brady is talking about letting his kid play football. I talked about pop warner and mighty mights. Basically, elementary school and middle schoolers. While high school athletes don't necessarily have their full muscle definition/development compared to college athletes, they're still highly developed(half my team 11 years ago was on the 1000 pound club, 12 starters getting d1 scholarships, etc). These are people running at full speed or near full speed. Like I said, if you watch mighty mights play, you're not going to see concussions very often. They don't have the speed, the weight, or the muscle to generate the force necessary for catastrophic injuries nearly as often as they do at higher levels.

fatalvenom: Slaves2Darkness: Children should not be allowed to play full contact sports as they have been proven to cause brain damage. Both football and hockey at the high school level and below should be forced to move to non-contact rules.

I'm sure spending time in a dark basement with only the glow of a computer screen as a source of light is much healthier. Not to mention drinking cases of Mountain Dew and eating Cheetos. Plus no sex.

"Non-contact rules" doesn't equal "not-playing any sports"
Ever heard of "Flag football?" Maybe "no checking" for hockey? Plus all the other athletic activities that are out there besides "contact sports" Track. Basketball. Baseball. Softball. Etc etc etc. Grow up. At least jr high and lower should follow the flag rule.

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This is the best I can find regarding the 8 to 13 age range. They're certainly getting concussions, but not at the same rate of the high school age kids, and the rate of concussion diagnosis is dramatically higher than it was 15 years ago.

Bottom line: coaches at all levels of sport should learn how to tell of a kid has a concussion, realize that brain injuries are incredibly serious, and keep kids who have a brain injury out of games because their health is more important than a pop warner game.

Cool story: when I was a kid, my mom had always told me I couldn't play football. Then, after my parents were divorced, a guy who was dating my mom told me I could never play football because I was too skinny. Not long afterwards, my mom relented and allowed me to play, and she admitted to me years later that it was because she wasn't going to let this dude make child-rearing decisions for her. Thanks, mom's ex-boyfriend! Thanks, excessively prideful mom!

/this "too skinny" guy wound up being a lineman, years later

CheatCommando: Subby has a severe reading comprehension problem.

THIS.

Thanks for the lulz.

bhcompy: It's not the kids getting ruined by concussions. It's the adults and young adults with fully developed bodies ramming each other at full speed. If you watch mighty mights play, you'll see that they are not going to get anywhere near the same types of injuries as 6'6 275lbs athletes that are damn near pure muscle smashing in to each other at 4.4 40 speed time

My nephew had 2 concussions before age 12. It's true they're smaller but they're also uncoordinated enough not to avoid running headfirst into each other.

sab6300: Slaves2Darkness: Children should not be allowed to play full contact sports as they have been proven to cause brain damage. Both football and hockey at the high school level and below should be forced to move to non-contact rules.

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I dunno if he was trolling or not, but I completely agree with his second statement: Both football and hockey at the high school level and below should be forced to move to non-contact rules

I played football during high school. No major injuries (broken fingers, sprained ankles, etc.), and I had a lot of fun on the team.

However, fast forward a few years and my cousin was in high school and wanted to try out for the football team. Well his mother, decided that football is too violent, so lets him play baseball instead. From Freshmen to Senior year I've never heard of a person get more farked up at a sport then he did at baseball (and strangely he was good at it). He had baseballs completely split his lips open, he broke a leg, broke a collarbone, broke an arm and got a mild concussion after taking a ball to the head.

We laugh now that the next cousin (who is a Freshmen next year) is going to die in some crazy event because he joined marching band.

meanmutton: bhcompy: meanmutton: bhcompy: meanmutton: bhcompy: It's not the kids getting ruined by concussions. It's the adults and young adults with fully developed bodies ramming each other at full speed. If you watch mighty mights play, you'll see that they are not going to get anywhere near the same types of injuries as 6'6 275lbs athletes that are damn near pure muscle smashing in to each other at 4.4 40 speed time

Children are getting concussions -- particularly boy's football and girl's soccer.

As a pop warner coach the past few years I've seen no major head injury problems. Mostly broken fingers, sprained ankles, etc. Do you have any data?

Link

Rate of concussions for boy's football is 0.6 concussions per 1,000 athletic exposures (i.e., a game featuring 30 players a side is 60 athletic exposures) and for girl's soccer is 0.35 concussions per 1,000 athletic exposures.

Those are high school stats

What age group are you looking at?

High school is still younger than "young adults with fully developed bodies".

Yeah most high.school males are stronger than the average adult male farker, more know and participate in weight training now. I know kids at 17 that can lift as much as me and it took me until my 30s to lift 300.

Would having Giselle as a wife be considered a full contact sport with serious potential for injury?

My god you guys are no fun. The headline is a joke. A joke...like funny, ha-ha. It's a twisting of an idea and producing something funny.