Is this the beginning of the end? Participation down. Youth programs being dropped. Only one insurer remains. Does football as we know it exist in 20 years? Discuss.
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Is this the beginning of the end? Participation down. Youth programs being dropped. Only one insurer remains. Does football as we know it exist in 20 years? Discuss.
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I tend to agree. Been involved with our Pop Warner program since 2005 and the numbers are way off. At the height (2010) we had 13 fully rostered teams playing in a conference with 19 cities. Last year we had 6 teams with skeleton rosters and the conference is down to 11 cities. The good news is our jr pee wees won the Super Bowl against a team from Arizona. Video games, lacrosse and CTE is killing the youth leagues.I’ve been saying for awhile that football would gone in my lifetime; god willing that will be in 40 years or so.
You don't hear much about fat ass 340 plus lb lineman and their health after retirement. That'll raise its ugly head before long. I wince when I hear the bragging about the "nutrition" programs that all the colleges have designed to make a reasonably healthy guy fat enough to play on the line. Football has almost risen to the point that it is the sport of modern day gladiators. I love the game. I don't love what it does to the players. I guess I'm like the Romans who loved their gladiators, but didn't much care that they were dragged out of the coliseum dead.
Works for me!
The future of football..
I saw this recently The N.F.L.’s Obesity Scourge
You might need to use your private surfing method to see it.
I think that football is on its way out, unless some tech helps with the brain issues, but not 20 years.
I read an article awhile back that said the average lifespan of an NFL lineman with 5+ yrs playing was like 64 1/2yrs. I will look for it and post.I read it. Here's a small snippet from the article:
"the average weight of offensive linemen ballooned 27 percent, 249 pounds in the 1970s to 315 in the 2000s"
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I lived in Murpree hall in 1965. Every day I saw our linemen walk by. They were tough in shape and the furthest thing from fat. That was what was called football shape back then. I wish the game had not changed. I knew two guys who were fat and didn't lose the fat. They were off the team after their first year.
This looks dangerous.
The future of football..
Not sure how that could possibly be proven, since you can't even diagnose CTE until you examine the brain after death.More and more evidence comes out showing that cte type damage starts when players are young. I wouldn't let my kids play, that's for sure. It's one thing to punish your body, it's quite another to lose your mind.
There isn't nearly enough research done on this to draw any surefire conclusions. Need a hell of a lot bigger sample size than that.