Thursday, November 8, 2012

Why Kids Under 14 Should Not Play Tackle Football

http://ideas.time.com/2012/11/06/why-kids-under-14-should-not-play-tackle-football/#ixzz2BVBbGBHL

21 comments:

  1. From a safety standpoint, football is dangerous. But, your most formative years are when you want to learn new skills, like football.

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  2. Tom sr. is just one of those parents that think there kid is not tough and is gonna get hurt but the men in the world are rough from the start thats why hes a quarterback

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  3. I think that the sport is general is not an issue to why kids are getting all these concussions, its the way the sport is getting played. If the coaches would get set rules for the kids while they play football it wouldn't be that big of an issue.

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    1. I agree. If they want the kids to have a successful football career in high school the coaches should enforce more rules.

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  4. If I did not play football I probably wouldn't not be in it at all I think it is important for kids to start young maybe not tackle football but I started in 3rd grade and that was flag and from 5-11 I've been in tackle football because I want to

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  5. Of course for saftey the fourteen year olds shouldn't be damaging their bodies at a young age, but now a days you have to start young at something if you want to be really good.

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  6. if u take football out of kids life under 14 thats 4 years less u get to experience it because after u graduate rarely anyone can play

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  7. i agree with this not only is dangerous for young kids. Because i doubt starting at age 5-10 wont make you any better then if you would start in 7th grade

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  8. And starting at younger age is kinda stupid because the parents of these kids that are coach's adomatically put there kid at QB or RB

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  9. If your kid enjoys it and wants to, let them do it. I don't give a dern, it's not as if it's lethal. After all, they're always trying to make it safer.

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  10. I would disagree, i think kids under the age 14 should be able to play tackle football because they need to know the basic's of football at a young age, because later as they get older they can build onto it in there career of football.

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  11. We have equipment to help keep them safe, we shouldn't coddle our kids.

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  12. i think that kids should be able to play any kind of sport at around any age they are willing to learn and understand. i think that it is a good thing that kids around the age 14 are playing football, all sports are dangerous but anything can happen.

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  13. I think it should be determined by the parents whether they can play or not.

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  14. I think that kids should be able to play tackle football because it helps them learn what they need to do when they get older and want to be in football, but also it should be their parents choice if they want them to play or not.

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  15. the young teen years is when you learn skills on being better. & all sports are dangerous but if you want to play sports you need to know that you can always get hurt. but also it's a parents choice to let you play or not.

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  16. They might injure them self very bad an some kids can be more developed then others and seriously injure a kids ribs or other parts of the body.

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  17. I think it is important for the kids who are in it to know the rules, and that would help reduce injuries

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  18. It probably would be a good idea. because at that age there brains are still developing and it might not be good if there taking hard its to the head

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  19. naaaaaaaaaaa! not even an option you just have to think by doing football even at that young of age it is still keeping those kids off the streets and stay away from things they shouldn't be getting into...plus it helps kids interact with other kids there age cause we have seen in these past couple years are generation has bad social skills and i mean this might not help a lot but it will still help a little.

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