Brain Damage and Football

Sota--don,t beat yourself up for things you didn't know at the time---many things our parents did were bad for them, but nobody new it ? Example mothers smoking and drinking during pregnancy ! Yes it is sad-- If a person knows something is detrimental and still allows it or facilitates it then they could be a criminal

 

I am not beating myself up over it but honestly I watched football differently yesterday I know it is a violent game but it is like matching MMA too brutal to be entertaining anymore watching people try to kill each other.

 

You will be a huge soccer fan before you know it!

 

You guys should see some of those slow motion knock out videos in the boxing world. The violent vibrations to a person's face are unreal. The same thing happens when a person gets drilled in football. It isn't normal for a human.

My first mma fight I had in 2000 I knocked a guy out really bad. Even an hour after the fight he was wondering around whimpering. I felt so proud of myself for that knockout bc I trained so hard. Now I feel like an ass for hurting that guy. His brain was jacked up and no one did a damn thing to help him.

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Germ is a soccer ref, I can answer all your questions on offside law.

Here’s a free bee, there is no such thing as a “hand ball” in soccer. So don’t shout it at the ref.

 

Kinda like the over the back foul basketball parents scream from the stands, no such foul exists.

 

Illinois is working on a law that will prohibit boys under 12 years old from playing organized tackle football.

 

Honestly some parents just don't read or understand what is at stake. A kid has about a 3% chances of playing football in college and less than 1% chance for Pro, but at age 8 they are all pro bound in parents eyes. This is one of those laws I don't agree with from a fundamental standpoint, States should not be making these laws telling what parents should or should not do with sports and their kids. From my "living in the real world" side, a lot of parents are putting their kids at risk to early, so I get it.

 

Was watching my sons REC league basketball game last night. Ok this is REC league guys. He is five feet tall at 13. These kids cant even make their middle school teams and the parents are just awful. I sit in a corner with my other kids and just try to ignore it. Bashing refs, bashing their own kids....I need earplugs. Just last night I wanted to Larry Tate office linebacker a 400 lb turd ball who was screaming at the ref at a REC game.

 

NBA bound baby, lol. A division 1 athelete at 13 can beat average HS players. My sons 6th grade AAU team played a 8th grade rec team in a tourney and ran them off the floor.

Parents are just delusional

 

MJ didn't make the team at 15.

 

Germ it is funny. When my son was born he had a Packers onesie and all things Packer related always told him he could be a Green Bay Packer. Don't get me wrong I said it but did not ever push that, I did not coach like I was going to make my kid a star, I never gave him special treatment. I always said all the kids payed the same price to play and all the kids were going to play the same amount. It was 4th grade when my son told me Dad I am not going to play professional football if I was going to I would be a dominant player by now. There were no delusions with us and football, he knew his chance to be a starter was being a good blocker and working hard. When he got thinking about college he talked to friends playing college ball and decided while he loved playing football getting his degree was more important. I was very proud of him and his decision, he is smarter that his Dad. I will never forget after his last game when he walked off the field we hugged and cried, not because it was over but because it was a great journey. I feel fortunate that he was never concussed, (probably because of his youth coach stressed form tackling) but he made it thru undamaged.

 

I have used that quote a million times as a coach and why it was important for every kid on the roster to play the same amount, who as a youth coach knows enough to decide who the stars are. I used to see all kinds of new coaches at the youth level act like it was a platform for them, jackasses.

 

The thing that irked me the most, I signed up to be the president of the youth football league my wife did not. She works at the middle school and had numerous parents ***** at her about issues with the youth football program, got to the point where she would not go to my sons games because she did not want to sit and listen to parents complain. I always invited any complaining parent to join the youth football board and be part of the solution, none of the complainers ever joined, they did not have the time. I got involved because complaining without action is whining and I have no time for that.

 

I also have a confession I have not been to a Packers website since Sunday, hell I wore my Cubs hat instead of a Packers hat as well. I will be in Las Vegas for the SB but will not watch or wager on the game. Going to area 51 for work.

 

There are always expectations to rules.

 

I also need to clarify something my wife did not stop going to games because she was meek or intimidated. She stopped going because she could not tell people what she really thought, if you think I am salty she is beyond that, she spares zero space for feelings she tells it like it is and puts no sugar on top.