Prepubescent CTEs vs A Tradition of Competitive Sports.
“We wouldn’t want to view our children as weak, so we’ll give then brain damage instead”
— generations brain damaged with lead
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I live in a football-mad state and I can’t remember the last time I saw kids playing full contact football. Flag football seems to have completely replaced it at the recreational level.
I don’t have kids so this is barely even an anecdote. I just live near a park with tons of fields and flag football seems as popular as baseball/softball/soccer. By high school, tackle football is still a huge deal but at the youth level, it seems like Pop Warner got replaced by flag football.
CTE had been recently correlated with schizophrenia onset. Yippee.
Well why don’t we all wear bras and drink each other’s cum!
Seriously though, good idea. They should do similar with rugby over here. They made me do that as a pre-pube and I fucking hated it; kids were always getting themselves minced. And that’s without pads and helmets and shit.
just one of the many reasons I love FIRST league.
That, and who doesn’t like robots? (FIRST is a robotic competition starting in elementary school with… lego robots… and getting much more complicated in highschool…)
Edit: This is highschool, but you can see what these kids are doing. each year they have slightly different tasks that you have to design around completing.
FRC is awesome, but physical sports are still important to young children and teenagers for physical health.
physical activity is important… heavily organized sports, not so much. there is a difference and a distinction there. Especially for younger kids, you don’t even need organized sport- simply getting out and playing is enough.
Sure that’s not how you create pro-NFL stars these days, but do we really need more?
One could similarly dismiss FIRST by saying that kids don’t need organization, they just need to play with Legos.
I’m not defending tackle football for kids, but you learn important things from organized sports just as you do from other organized competitions, plus you have the benefit of also getting exercise.
Poo-poohing sports seems like a big mistake to me. And before this is construed the wrong way, my younger son actually does FIRST. He just also plays organized sports.
I disagree
I agree. Your body only has so many hits.
you kinda sound like my dad. “That switch only has so many flips…”, “that button only has so many presses!” … for some reason “i only have so many steps” doesn’t seem like it would have gone over well when he asked me to take out the trash.
(You’re not wrong, though.)
Maybe I am your dad.
Naw. As much of a not-Luddite as he is, he’s not on lemmy,
Sports!
Solid album, but not Hueys finest
Their early work was a little too new wave for my tastes, but when Sports came out in '83, I think they really came into their own, commercially and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consimante professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost. He’s been compared to Elvis Costello, but I think Huey has a far much more bitter, cynical sense of humour.
Baseball, basketball, weiner dog, short shorts, cigarette, surf board, ping pong, rugby ball, weiner dog, skiing, down on the beach… SPOOOORTS!!!
