Jesse

I used to P/D my whole month as well when I was in my first year. Never heard a peep.

FmrFreightDog

Exactly. And it starts early too. I went to a few Cobb Football League games last year and was absolutely amazed at the size of the hits those kids were laying on each other.

Columbia

Yep-my nephew who is 16 has been diagnosed with a neurological disorder the docs believe is the result of peewee football. Very, very sad.

sinca3

Wow, I'm on year 5+ and can't drop and have been denied APD's in the past. I've been trying to drop trips this month with no luck. Required 45 available 44 or less in the case of an APD!

Jack Bauer

Expect this to get worse with the new reserve rules. Unintended consequences and all that.

forgot to bid

A year ago I flew with a Captain whose son was the JV QB for his high school in Dallas. Which probably means he could be the starting varsity QB at a vast majority of high schools in the country.

What the Captain told me was that the offensive line could not block and his son took a helmet to helmet sack and got a concussion. Sounded like it was the opposing high schools modus operandi to go helmet to helmet. Coach sent him back out to play and he got another one. His grades started to slip and got to the point they had to take him out of school.

Someone said that football will die or go the way of MMA when parents stop letting their kids play. Well, count me as one of those parents. Swimming, basketball (which bores me), soccer (which really bores me), but not football and probably not baseball due to the behavior of the adults I see at little league games.

FmrFreightDog

Yep. We won't do football because of the risk, and I'm about fed up with the parental hysteria surrounding 7 year old baseball in East Cobb. We've got one dad in particular who is fond of yelling out, "What's the matter Travis? Is your skirt too tight?" when his kid isn't playing particularly well. My wife is pushing for Lacrosse, but I'm sure she'll pull back on that once she actually watches Lacrosse and realizes how physical it is. Tennis maybe? I dunno. When I was a kid, club sports were fun. I look around where I live now and all but the very best are burnt out and frustrated before they ever even get to high school.

AtlCSIP

For the most part, my kids who ran cross country and played soccer ended up with a better crowd of kids, and we had a better crowd of parents, than my kids who played baseball, football or basketball. Baseball had the worst parents. Football had the most injuries.

dalad

Man, it must really suck to live in your world.

Bucking Bar

Rugby anyone?