((HT: WBZ-TV Boston))
This topic crops up every once in a while... and it continues to be tiresome...
Old people wanting to ban football because of the preponderance of head injuries...
This time it's another doctor in Dover, New Hampshire who just happens to be on a school board. Dr. Paul Butler said the following at a Board of Education meeting:
“I am suggesting that we try to stop the game of football in Dover..."
The literature on head injuries in football is getting increasingly clear. The game is dangerous for our brains.”
Butler is an ex-football player on both the high school and college levels, so he claims that he has a base of knowledge to make his opinion- an opinion that he knows is a minority thought.
Here's Ken MacLeod talking about it and catching up with life at practice in Dover...
The HQ knows that the idea of blowing up football is an extreme opinion, and one that isn't likely to have a lot of traction- ever.
We also know that as long as high school aged athletes still have issues and aren't taught the proper fundamentals when they participate the problem will continue.
The middle ground here will be the place that ideas are figured out, but we also know that this is a world of extremes and compromise doens't come easily or lightly.
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