tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8733559733127645128.post7779477860691048672..comments2023-11-03T04:11:06.821-04:00Comments on The Hot Gates 480BC: Ban on High School Football ProposedPleistarchoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11968310986316619625noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8733559733127645128.post-74070128476201763172012-10-05T14:24:26.989-04:002012-10-05T14:24:26.989-04:00If you ban high school football in a few years the...If you ban high school football in a few years there will be no football. This is what they want...after all, football is nothing but gladitorial violence!<br /><br />The excuse is danger because of concussions. Of course, as you so aptly stated, there are dangers associated with other sports. Let's list a few that would require banning:<br /><br />Soccer...concussions due to heading the ball, knee injuries.<br /><br />Baseball... danger from being hit by the ball.<br /><br />Basketball... joint injuries becaue of running on the hard floor.<br /><br />Boxing...concussion, cuts and blood<br /><br />Rugby... bruises<br /><br />Wrestling... hmmm.<br /><br />Track... joint injuries<br /><br />Field...getting hit by javelins, shot puts, disci, etc<br /><br />Tennis...getting whopped by the ball, joint inuries because of hard surfaces<br /><br />Gymnastics... broken necks, joint injuries<br /><br />Cricket...getting hit by the ball<br /><br />Swimming...drowning<br /><br />Volleyball...getting whopped by the ball, joint injuries<br /><br />I'm sure there are others that I forgot. However a couple stand out as perhaps safe for our children: Badminton and table tennis.<br /><br />There is an additional danger from all of these sports... the horror of a kid losing his/her esteem because they lost. <br /><br />I'm sure that our progressive friends would be happy to ban all competitive sports if they can.<br /><br />Seriously, here is an answer to the concussion problems of football.... use the same padding as used by rugby players. The problem with football is that the players play at full strength and full speed because they don't think they can be injured (or injure) because of the armor. If they had no armor they might suffer some injury but it would not be of the life threatening kind. They would very quickly learn to use their bodies as rugby players do. There might be more cuts and bruises (the horror!) but a lot less cucussion, severe knee injuries, broken necks, etc.<br /><br />The same goes for boxing. We all know the dangers. However these dangers come from the fact that the boxers use hand protection in the form of gloves and wrapping. These protect the hands, prevent cutting, but do not reduce the concussive impact of a blow. In fact the impact is greater because nothing happens to the hand when the blow is struck. A return to bare knuckles boxing would imcrease cutting and reduce the impact...otherwise the boxer would soon suffer broken hands. In the end boxing would be a lot safer, more scientific, and more interesting. The same goes for MMA. Those little gloves protect wrapped hands. MMA should go back to the original bare knuckles rules.<br /><br />I will continue to watch football, baseball, soccer, boxing, and other sports. I will continue to encourage our youth to participate rather than becoming total couch potatoes. I will encourage them to participate in non-violent but comptetive sports like track and cross country (my high school specialties). I will encourage them to participate in sports that they can continue as they age (running, tennis, basketball, softball, etc.).<br /><br />I will encourage our states and municipalities to resist total control by the nanny state.George Hathawayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01983785670571898673noreply@blogger.com