A California bill moving through the legislature could ban youth tackle football for children under age 12.
    • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world
      121·
      10 months ago

      “We wouldn’t want to view our children as weak, so we’ll give then brain damage instead”

      — generations brain damaged with lead

  • ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    10 months ago

    I live in a football-mad state and I can’t remember the last time I saw kids playing full contact football. Flag football seems to have completely replaced it at the recreational level.

    I don’t have kids so this is barely even an anecdote. I just live near a park with tons of fields and flag football seems as popular as baseball/softball/soccer. By high school, tackle football is still a huge deal but at the youth level, it seems like Pop Warner got replaced by flag football.

  • tegs_terry@feddit.ukEnglish
    105·
    10 months ago

    Well why don’t we all wear bras and drink each other’s cum!

    Seriously though, good idea. They should do similar with rugby over here. They made me do that as a pre-pube and I fucking hated it; kids were always getting themselves minced. And that’s without pads and helmets and shit.

  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
    73·
    10 months ago

    just one of the many reasons I love FIRST league.

    That, and who doesn’t like robots? (FIRST is a robotic competition starting in elementary school with… lego robots… and getting much more complicated in highschool…)

    Edit: This is highschool, but you can see what these kids are doing. each year they have slightly different tasks that you have to design around completing.

    • BakerBagel@midwest.social
      51·
      10 months ago

      FRC is awesome, but physical sports are still important to young children and teenagers for physical health.

      • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
        73·
        10 months ago

        physical activity is important… heavily organized sports, not so much. there is a difference and a distinction there. Especially for younger kids, you don’t even need organized sport- simply getting out and playing is enough.

        Sure that’s not how you create pro-NFL stars these days, but do we really need more?

        • EatATaco@lemm.eeEnglish
          4·
          10 months ago

          One could similarly dismiss FIRST by saying that kids don’t need organization, they just need to play with Legos.

          I’m not defending tackle football for kids, but you learn important things from organized sports just as you do from other organized competitions, plus you have the benefit of also getting exercise.

          Poo-poohing sports seems like a big mistake to me. And before this is construed the wrong way, my younger son actually does FIRST. He just also plays organized sports.

    • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      10 months ago

      you kinda sound like my dad. “That switch only has so many flips…”, “that button only has so many presses!” … for some reason “i only have so many steps” doesn’t seem like it would have gone over well when he asked me to take out the trash.

      (You’re not wrong, though.)

      • IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.worldEnglish
        81·
        10 months ago

        Their early work was a little too new wave for my tastes, but when Sports came out in '83, I think they really came into their own, commercially and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consimante professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost. He’s been compared to Elvis Costello, but I think Huey has a far much more bitter, cynical sense of humour.

    • BlueLineBae@midwest.socialEnglish
      33·
      10 months ago

      Baseball, basketball, weiner dog, short shorts, cigarette, surf board, ping pong, rugby ball, weiner dog, skiing, down on the beach… SPOOOORTS!!!