Warner said his 2 boys like a lot of kids want to play football and if good enough, pro football. He said knowing the violence in the game today, with athletes being ever bigger and stronger and faster, raises the risk of injuries. That is a no brainer.

He said as a father he preferred that they would not play football but he supports his kids in whatever they want to do. He is just a parent like most everyone else who has concerns about his kids. Nothing more, nothing less.

The discussion was also in relation to Junior Seau’s tragic death.

I am a hockey fan and have the same concerns for the players as more and more are sidelined with head injuries and concussions.

No matter what your sports you feel cheated when your teams players get hurt, especially with a cheap shot, and miss games.

There is a empty coliseum in LA. For all the blood thirsty fans who don’t get enough violence in football perhaps we could renew the Roman Gladiators to play there. It seats over 90,000.
That might finally satisfy everyone.

As players get bigger and faster while their bones and ligaments (and brains) age the potential for damage is much greater, and for those players who play well into their 20s and 30s the toll on their bodies really adds up.

I cant believe I am even saying that because I always imagined my sons playing football. But the average life expectany is lower for NFL players, and thats truth!

If I could pick a pro sport for my son to play(I can dream right), MLB is where it’s at. Think about it….if you can hit a baseball 1 out of 3 times on average, they will make you a millionaire, WITH a gauranteed full salary….OK I’m done dreaming now

(CNN) — His was a suicide with a macabre twist. In February, former Chicago Bears safety David Duerson shot himself in the chest, but not before leaving behind a note requesting his brain be studied for evidence of a disease striking football players.

The plaintive note read, “Please, see that my brain is given to the NFL’s brain bank.”

Today, scientists announced that Duerson’s brain tissue showed “moderately advanced” evidence of chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a dementia-like brain disease afflicting athletes exposed to repeated brain trauma.

I was attracted to football in high school and broke my wrist on the third day of practice. That was that for me, because the next years I was working after school.

After I got out of my cast I started playing guitar, and have been in music ever since.

I love music, but if I have kids I’m definitely going to steer my kids away from pursuing a career in music. My parents tried to with me, and that was before audiences decided they didn’t want to pay for anything.

If somebody has a passion for something they will follow it.

At least with football measures can be taken to improve the safety of the game.

How can we convince a world who doesn’t want to pay for music that failing to do so is degrading the overall quality of what will become available?

It’s all relative.

You mean the game that took Warner from the obscurity of bagging groceries to being a multimillionaire whose opinion actually matters now …….. THAT “football”, Kurt?

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Actually, the way I took it (and I feel the same way) is that he’s more concerned about HS and College ball. NFL is doing a pretty good job of cleaning up the game and raising awareness of concussions etc. High Schools use 10 year old helmets that don’t do much to prevent concussions. New anti concussion models are over $400 each, which most schools and parents can’t afford. Plus high school doesn’t have media attention like pros, and so there are many more cases of teams willing to win at any cost, rather then the pros.

Personally, the NFL isn’t as dangerous as it once was, they are cleaning up injuries that don’t have to happen, but they can’t prevent all injuries. I don’t have the same level of confidence of high school and college however. If someone gets a concussion in high school do you think they have independent neurologists pull them off the field and not let them back on until they pass tests? No, they go right back on the field and get hit in the head again.

Amen.

Yea, but all of the parents who are lazy want a lottery-style quick payday will still let their kids play

What are you talking about? A lottery style Pay-day? Do you know how few people are talented enough to make it to the NFL, (or work hard enough…talent isn’t everything) and make good money. Besides that money belongs to the players not their parents. Maybe people let their kids play football because it’s a great sport. It is a sport that teaches toughness, fair play, hard work, and commitment. Many parents played football themselves and learned a lot from it including a WORK ETHIC. Allowing your kids to play football doesn’t make you a lazy parent, but making idiotic comments on-line does make you sound stupid.

Hope I’m wrong.
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I hope you’re wrong too but i’m afraid you’re not, dickroy.