Would you let your kid play football?

[sonzai]

To right this slight against my vanity, I insist you make sacrifice for me a yearling cow, with wide forehead, unbroken, one that no man has ever led under the yoke yet. Then all will be well.

And make sure it has a wide forehead - otherwise it's no good.

Is this forehead wide enough? Pretty sure no man has ever led it under a yoke yet either...

[Vlad]

Bring her to me presently.

[CaveBear]

To answer the op's question...... absolutely 100% yes, if he wanted to. I live in W.PA., its a freakin hotbed for youth, junior high, JV, and Varsity feetball. I was denied the chance to play because my school was to small to support a team, but we played, full contact, no pads, every week in a field at our elementary school. We usually fielded teams of 6-8 guys on each team. Yeah, some kids got hurt, broken legs, arms, ribs and various dislocations, didnt matter, we were gonna play no matter what. It was a great time.

[LethalStriker]

Football is the one sport where most of the people who play only play it for the 4 years they're in high school. Playing football prior to high school benefits you very little once you play freshman football in the 9th grade. And there is no such thing as anywhere to play football even recreationally in a full out environment beyond high school.

[CaveBear]

Football is the one sport where most of the people who play only play it for the 4 years they're in high school. Playing football prior to high school benefits you very little once you play freshman football in the 9th grade. And there is no such thing as anywhere to play football even recreationally in a full out environment beyond high school.

Huh?????????

[floater]

Football is a great game for those kids not smart enough to play musical instruments!

[Baphomet3]

I will say this, though: were I train we get a lot of football and judo/jits people and it bothers me how immature and flippat they are about inflicting serious injuries upon their opponents, sometimes intentionally, sometimes dubiously, often with the full and enthusiastic support of their coaches. "We're in a big dog pile and I had a hold of his leg and I just clamped down and twisted it and you could hear his knee pop." with a proud smile. Dude, that's a potentially permanent injury, certainly a season-ending injury, for some 16 or 17 year old kid who no longer gets to have fun and play football and maybe even get a college scholarship because you're a deviant psychopath. Bragging about snapping arms - oh, these are like 15-year-old judo girls. I don't know -- you have to be aware of this. There's some kid on the other side of the field with shjtty prents and a juvanile, sadistic, possibly pedophile coach who thinks it's funny to try to tear your ACL when the ref isn't looking. But that's life. It's good clean competitive fun most of the time, it's serious, you have to be alert and on guard, but beware, too, that stray bullets fly around, and some donk might try to sucker punch you while you're getting out of a cab or get you fired for a tack joke email or tell your old lady you was messing around just so he can score a sympathy fu@k. Life lessons.

[Straight_Crown]

Football is the one sport where most of the people who play only play it for the 4 years they're in high school. Playing football prior to high school benefits you very little once you play freshman football in the 9th grade. And there is no such thing as anywhere to play football even recreationally in a full out environment beyond high school.

Lol. What?