Bronx Lawmaker Trying To Ban Pop Warner Football From New York
NYDN – Pop Warner football would get blitzed out of New York if a Bronx lawmaker gets his way. Assemblyman Michael Benedetto has introduced legislation to prohibit children younger than 11 from playing organized tackle football anywhere in the state. It apparently is the first such proposal in the nation. “I want to protect the children,” Benedetto, a Democrat, told the Daily News on Friday. “I want them to get an appreciation of the game but I also don’t want them to come out of this wonderful sport in a damaged condition.” Benedetto quietly introduced the legislation this week amid a growing national concern about the lasting health effects of concussions and other head injuries in sports. In a recent book, Dr. Robert Cantu, a Boston neurosurgeon, urged kids under 14 to avoid football.
I just flat out don’t think kids are getting concussions from Pop Warner football. Except for the 2 kids in this video. Those kids left practice and went home and died. And even if they are getting concussions on a regular basis, I just don’t care. Kids fall off their bikes and smash their heads. They get pegged in the head with dodgeballs. They play Kill the Cow at recess. They do WWF wrestling in the backyard. Playing Pop Warner football in full pads is probably one of the safest things kids are doing. They aren’t 6’5 300 pounds and they aren’t running like 50 mph. I want that Sports Science loser on Sportscenter to do some tests on how much force these kids can even exert when they hit each other.
99% of kids will stop playing football in high school and their brains will be fine. The other 1% will go on to play college and pro football where they will make enough money or fuck enough chicks to justify 10-12 concussions taking 15-20 years off their lives. It seems like the situation just polices itself if you ask me.
Banning football. Liberals run wild.
If they would just make these kids wear tampons everything would be fine.
Only needed to read the headline to know the “Bronx lawmaker” is a liberal. Are liberals born without penises and testicles or do they cut them off at a certain age?
Somebody has to jump on the loose ball there…
They cut them off when they go to College or join a Union.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEPgb5v3qZg
football’s just gonna go the way of boxing. only poor minorities will end up playing the game while all whites and wealthy people spectate.
common sense is cool. comments on each blog before i complete reading them. nice life dude
“It isn’t so much that liberals are ignorant. It’s just that they know so many things that aren’t so.” – Ronald Reagan
New York is so soft
My 10 yr old son plays tackle and loves it. He refused to play flag football. Not a big fan of that head-on tackle drill though. Would rather an angle drill or open field.
Democrat. suprised?
yeah, because no liberal every played/continues to have their children play football because of this one douchebag, right? that’s like saying every conservative believes that evolution is made up. don’t be so stupid stoolies.
bigblue72 is ever cooler than me because he comments about peoples comments. Keep up the good work and read faster you botched vaginoplasty.
Rudy Rudy Rudy…….
Commonsense periodically checks throughout the day to see if people have commented on his comments. Especially when he slam dunks it with words like “tampons” and “vaginoplasty.” ZING . Bet he comes back and reads this comment.
Should I feel bad that I laughed at that kid crying in the video?
^^^ not if you laughed hard enough to cry too, I thought that was hilarious, hell that was prob me when I was a kid getting absolutly rocked, don’t remember cuz I’ve been Ina coma for 10 years, I used to get concussions from getting hit in the helmet wit rocks while I was benched(always) during pop Warner practice, quitting football and pop Warner to watch was the best way to finger blast cheerleaders when your 13, doesn’t help now tho