Should Youth Football Be Banned?
The growing numbers of concussions in football lead to one school in Dover, New Hampshire to ban high school football. Dr. Paul Butler a surgeon and a Dover school board member, to have a lot of concern about the number of blows to the kids head and the repeated head trauma that the kids are receiving from playing football. Both undetected and detected concussions that the young football players suffer from. according to CNN, studies show that on the long term effects of concussions suggest that football is just to violent of a sport for young kids. Even during practice kids collide heads which sometimes is hard enough to give them a concussion which if they keep playing the way they are, they will damage their brain even more. according to the NFL concussion report there has already been 51 concussions so far in the 2012's six-week NFL season.
for some people, football is the only thing that they have. the kids should have a say in this.
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