>And like any responsible parents, they presumably also don't just defer to what their elementary aged children "want to do with their life" nor feed into the exaggeration that "everybody else" does anything at all, let alone play tackle football.
replyThis is the only wise position. Despite the common and misleading film tropes, children do not know themselves perfectly. Often the adults "holding them back" are doing those children a great favor.
I guess you missed the point so why don’t I spell it out to you.
replyThe correct thing to do is to ban tackle football below a certain age. Probably college. That levels the playing field.
Ah. Yes, I didn't pick that up in what you wrote. The seeming fatalism about how there's not much to do until or unless that happens eclipsed it. That seemed to be the focus of your comment and I could only re-contextualize it once you made it more clear her.
replySorry about the misread!
I'm down with banning tackle football for kids, but "the people who play as kids have an unfair advantage in going pro" is an incredibly weird reason to think it should be banned.
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