Youth Football: Good or Bad Choice?

Youth football good or bad you decide By now we have all discovered that football is a dangerous sport for all age groups. In the professional leagues, college levels, high school, and even the pop warner leagues (here in Michigan called rocket football), players can end up getting broken bones and perhaps concussions (Lavigne). The much higher levels of the game there can have serious consequences with the risk of serious injuries, there have been multiple cases of paralysis or even death from improper tackling technics. One of the most of the common issues that are making national attention is brain injuries (Lavigne). The problem here is not that we are teaching our kids wrong technics, but accidents happen. With the national attention here is a group of higher up officials in the United States government that is trying to put a ban on youth tackle football (Lavigne). There are several groups asking if there would be a possibility that the government can stop youth football from happening (Lavigne). The government can and has put age limits on just about anything they want too. For instance there are limits on smoking, drinking, driving, and watching certain movies or even video games. Ask ourselves why, because it is said to be that children are too immature physically, emotionally, and mentally to wisely choose extra-curricular activities, but here in the state of Michigan children can babysit children as long as they are mature enough. Here again is that mature thing right. It is still up to our judgment as citizens to choose whether or not kids are mature for anything, because we as the parents believe that’s our job not the governments. I have not seen evidence the government is trying to ban other fiscal sports like hockey, wrestling, martial arts, boxing and etc. Since these are all brutal sports that have a large percentage of injuries too, why not ban these sports also? Here is a better idea lets ban all activities so our kids can’t learn the

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