NFL Players and Coaches and the President on Kids and Football
The NFL preseason is in full swing, which means your Sundays (and Mondays and Thursdays) will soon be dominated by gigantic men in garish spandex smashing into each other. Take the high road and lament how everyone’s still freaking out about Tom Brady’s deflated balls if you want, but at least that absurdity distracts from the conversation a lot of fathers might want to avoid: Given everything that’s now known about prevalence of concussions in the game, and the terrifying long term impact they can have on a kid’s health, would buy moncler jackets you let your own kid play football?
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“I would moncler outlet sale not let my son play pro football. It’s sort of in the same realm (as boxing). At this point, there’s a little bit of caveat emptor. These guys, they know what they’re doing. They know what they’re buying into. It is no longer a secret. It’s sort of the feeling I have about smokers, you know?” (via NFL)
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cheap moncler outlet That’s what makes life exciting. And that’s what makes football exciting. The players are never safe. Anything can happen at any moment. The controlled chaos on the football field is astonishing to witness, and refreshing for a spectator who may fear the chaos in his own life, and may need to be reminded how to take the leap. cheap moncler outlet
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“For me, the game’s been great. I cheap moncler coats think organized sports of all kinds are good for kids. (My son) started at a young age. He plays because he enjoys the game and that’s what he wants to do; he’s at one of the finest universities for being a student athlete now and I couldn’t be prouder. The thing about the game now is we’re much smarter about how we handle head injuries and how we monitor concussions so I think we’re in much better shape than we were before.” (via AOL)
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“I think that we’re at a real crossroads, as it relates to the grassroots of our sport https://www.mymoncleroutlet.com , because if I had a 10 year old boy, I don’t know that I’d be real inclined to encourage him to go play football, in light of what we cheap moncler are learning from head injury.” (via Business Insider)
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“We don’t want them to play in our household right now until they understand how physical and how demanding the game is. Then they can have their choice in high school, we’ll talk over it, but right now there’s no need for it. There’s enough sports they can play. They play basketball, they play soccer Moncler Outlet , they play everything else but football and hockey. It’s a safety thing. As a parent you protect your kids as much as possible. I don’t think I’m the only one that’s not allowing his kids to play football, it’s just that I’m LeBron James and it gets put in the headlines for no reason.” (via ESPN).