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In reply to the discussion: While watching Nova on HS football, IMO it's time to scrap football or change it to a non contact [View all]former9thward
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While watching Nova on HS football, IMO it's time to scrap football or change it to a non contact [View all]
CK_John
Aug 2013
OP
Our daughter is an athletic trainer working in a middle and high school. It's football season!
phylny
Aug 2013
#1
For general out-and-out cruelty, your post ranks right up there with the average
HardTimes99
Aug 2013
#10
Your cruelty (cloaked as it is in quasi-Libertarian rationale) deserves harsh censure. Consider
HardTimes99
Aug 2013
#12
Extending that logic would mean that motorcycle helmet laws and seat belt laws would be dropped.
hedgehog
Aug 2013
#95
Wow, so if any athlete has died in any activity that activity should be banned? Brilliant logic! n-t
Logical
Aug 2013
#20
Way to create a strawman (speaking of 'brilliant logic'). My post was in reply to
HardTimes99
Aug 2013
#23
I thought it was used to denigrate Libertarians, which is how I intended it. I consider myself
HardTimes99
Aug 2013
#35
I'm actually leaving a sub-thread intact where pintobean and I discuss what
HardTimes99
Aug 2013
#41
I gotta think there's a middle ground between banning football altogether and a mad max free for all
Kber
Aug 2013
#30
I played all the way from childhood in the parks to a year in college honestly I enjoyed it yes
Arcanetrance
Aug 2013
#13
I loved playing football. It was all I really had in high school that helped me fit in. I still...
Logical
Aug 2013
#21
Todays football is nothing like 10yrs ago. These are football factories. Players are 30% bigger,
CK_John
Aug 2013
#22
There are 29,000 high schools in America, 14,000 of them have football teams. Also....
Logical
Aug 2013
#42
There are high schools without football or sports programs?? Where might that be.
madinmaryland
Aug 2013
#31
Ask your pediatrician or neurologist how he or she feels about scholastic contact sports. I think
HardTimes99
Aug 2013
#46
Sorry, I don't think school should be a place where children risk death, whether
HardTimes99
Aug 2013
#48
Your post is one of the reasons I so enjoy and appreciate DU, as it often forces me out of
HardTimes99
Aug 2013
#84
During my last protracted bout of unemployment before this current one, I investigated becoming
HardTimes99
Aug 2013
#86
One can, however, have cheerleading without acrobatics. One cannot have football without contact.
WinkyDink
Aug 2013
#75
The day my son dropped soccer was a day Mr. Brickbat and I (privately) celebrated.
Brickbat
Aug 2013
#72
Many, if not most, non-contact sports are far from "boring." Baskeball, skiing, gymnastics, golf,
WinkyDink
Aug 2013
#76
I'm simply pointing that life in general, even activities we take for granted...
Purrfessor
Aug 2013
#81