11-18-2017, 01:42 PM
Does all of this mean the eventual demise of football as we know it? Would that bother anyone? Is my entertainment more valuable than someone’s health?
Those are all questions that will eventually have to be answered. I know a lot of people have the mindset that nobody is forced to play the game. But, those are usually people who don’t have anything to lose by others playing the game.
My youngest son sustained a concussion in middle school football. It was about 4 games into the season, he missed the remaining 5 games. The next season he blew his knee out.
Those two injuries set him back tremdously in school. His grades suffered, he was depressed. It has taken his entire sophomore year and now almost half of his junior year to pull his grades back up to where he was in middle school. It’s been tough.
When he decided not to play football after his freshman year, we were good with that.
Those are all questions that will eventually have to be answered. I know a lot of people have the mindset that nobody is forced to play the game. But, those are usually people who don’t have anything to lose by others playing the game.
My youngest son sustained a concussion in middle school football. It was about 4 games into the season, he missed the remaining 5 games. The next season he blew his knee out.
Those two injuries set him back tremdously in school. His grades suffered, he was depressed. It has taken his entire sophomore year and now almost half of his junior year to pull his grades back up to where he was in middle school. It’s been tough.
When he decided not to play football after his freshman year, we were good with that.
