Posturing, posturing, posturing.....on both sides. It is soooo tiresome.

Give me a break! Everything in life has a degree of danger. Figure out your own risk tolerance, not politicians, please!

Way to go, Gavin! He knows that the blue team should not be anti-choice, anti-free speech, anti-comedy, anti-anti-War---like they have become to a frightening and self-defeating extreme. When did we become the party that loves to tell other people what to do all the freakin time?? You cowardly anti-football people, why not just decide for your own kids? Wrap them in bubble-wrap, but not all kids. you think this is the way it is now in New Zealand--are there busy-body Gladys Gravitzes trying to ban rugby? or in Canada, hockey for kids?

So oblivious, these football haters, as if they do not know that for working class kids, football is teaching them lessons about how to work with others, get up when knocked down and without crying about small things, because life is hard. I am afraid so many of this horrid woke wing of my blue team, the ones who want to ban tackle football for kids, comedy on college campuses and so forth, they are going to wake up soon and find Trump is president again from his jail cell even, and it will be the BLUE TEAM'S FAULT! Save us, Gavin!

This is tricky. Sometimes the injuries during youth sport don't appear until old age. The numbers of world class soccer players affected with dementia are above the average Web Link The same could be said for NFL players Web Link There are plenty of articles when Googling.

More research needs to be done obviously, but starting these sports too young with full contact and heading the ball done before a player is fully grown can't be good for them. Unfortunately, if there is damage it may not be known until 50 years or so after the start of play at an early age.

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To your specific comments on injuries, you do suggest reasons indeed that you might question tackle football for your own kids. It reflects lack of first hand knowledsge though on your insitence upon deciding for others. I have that knowledge: as I did, my kids played tackle football (which is real football, not something completely different like flag), and the great irony is that these bills would ban the MOST safe age group for kids--that is before puberty, when did you know Girls play on teams, and there are no pro football like catastropic injuries. Numbers will show you pre-puberty kids get hurt more often surfing, skiing, snow-boarding, skateboarding,hockey, motor-bike riding, well, just being a kid.

I personally like Palo Alto and it's history, which includes before David Shaw coached Andrew Luck and Richard Sherman and Christian McCaffey, and before Davota Adams and even before Jim Harbaugh played at Paly, there was really a man named Pop Warner. He had a great idea, this weight-based approach to little kids tackle football, which teaches great lessons, has more participation than older kids' football, AND less injuries. Respectfully, let's keep CHOICE alive even in the modern blue taam.!

Bystander trying to 'help' working class kids live a safer life---by taking them out of football teams, especially the age group that is so safe they have girls on the team! With all due respect, Bystander, I do not believe they need the protection of making this choice for them.

Right. What I sincerely believe is that COVID made everywhere and everyone worse but it hurt the blue team even more that it did the red team: Yes, the city where Jerry Gargia had his first job back when: it made us psychotic so we lost our identity. I think of George Carlin as a good example of a peaceful, open-minded, friendly, tolerant, funny, representative of the left. Yet, now we shout down choice? How can it be that we demand choice concerning abortion and what books say kids in Florida can read in school (how dare they tell parents what to do!), but now we DEMAND no choice/bans for parents to decide for their own kids whether they can play football or not (they CAN'T!/it "does them no good!"),and use ONLY THAT pronoun ! and EVERYONE, yes, you too, even be you COPD/asthma/even Autism--you MUST wear the Covid mask ! (so our sad town still looks sometimes like a hospital) and no comedy on campuses! Where did you go George Carlin/Jerry Garcia, ...we turn our lonely eyes to you.

What ever happened to 'do your own thing?' dancing to the beat of your own drum? and 'Live and Let Live'? now we rig Bernie Sanders out of presidential consideration, and make RFK, Jr. leave the party! while name-checking 'democracy' to the right team as if we are somehow better. Those are two very good and sincerely left/liberal guys. Yet, banned by my modern bossy/woke/anti-choice blue team.

JBS, as I said this is a tricky topic. I believe all kids regardless of economic status should have the opportunity to play sport. I also think we should look into what some sports do to the growing brain. This is particularly true when the outcomes may be 50+ years down the line.

The benefits of sport, being in a team, the exercise and the team spirit are excellent for all kids.