Catholics and football

[graciew]

It is…
So sorry about that MeganCecilia.

 

[27lw]

They’re taught how to minimize the risk of injury. Say there was no more football. Then this forum would have started picking on some other sport.

Funny thing, I find cars a lot riskier than being in football. All the parents worried about football were, pre-Covid at any rate, driving their kids to soccer, chess, and all sorts of activities, putting them in harm’s way each day. When I step into other people’s vehicles I notice how often they make driving errors, and even focus on their GPS instead of driving.

I say let’s live with some risk. As Catholics, we know there is a better place to which we are headed.

That’s funny. I don’t recall seeing studies that 99% of longtime car passengers (or drivers) have traumatic brain injury.
I’m seriously wondering how Catholic schools can justify having their students play it.

111 N.F.L. Brains. All But One Had C.T.E. (Published 2017)

A neuropathologist has examined the brains of 111 N.F.L. players — and 110 were found to have C.T.E., the degenerative disease linked to repeated blows to the head.

www.nytimes.com

BU Researchers Find CTE in 99% of Former NFL Players Studied

BU researchers find Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE), a degenerative brain disease involving tau protein, in 99% of former NFL players studied.

www.bu.edu

CTE risk, severity increases with years playing American football

The risk and severity of developing chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) increases with the number of years playing American football according to a new study. These findings reaffirm the relationship between playing tackle football and CTE, and for the first time quantify the strength of that...

www.sciencedaily.com

Players With C.T.E. Doubled Risk With Every 5.3 Years in Football (Published 2019)

A new study is the first to quantify the number of years linked to measurable brain disease.

www.nytimes.com

Brain condition CTE seen in H.S. football players: study

(HealthDay)—Crippling brain injury from football can start early, even among high school players, a new study suggests.

medicalxpress.com

 

[Angannas]

I don’t know if it can apply to football but in rugby,after several very serious injury cases across the years , the UAR( national rugby association) revised the scrum. There was an issue with the scrum and how it had become dangerous vis á vis these cases.
So, instead of doing away with the sport, how it is taught, practiced and played was revised so as to improve and reduce injuries.
I know nothing about American football though , only just having watched games.

My cousin played rugby for several years without injury (as did I at school) until he was nagged out if it and encouraged to take up a nice safe sport like golf. Within a couple if months he was hit on the head by a golf ball and taken to hospital

 

[graciew]

It can happen.
The thing is that some injuries are specific to the sport and how it is taught and played.
Contact sports in particular require specific attention when something in it becomes a dangerous sort of pattern.Identifying the problem is part of the solution.
Tackling( talking about rugby) for example, isn’t allowed at school or club level when children are little for example. It takes not only a learning process , technical,but a physical and mental contexture / build that enables the learning.
And there at the very center , the purpose of sports…