http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/highschool-prep-rally/nfl-hall-famer-dubs-football-deadly-near-extinction-221903970.html

DOUBT IT!

I doubt it too, but he does have a point about changing social norms. We are a country of wimps now, I can see more rule changes, even laws restricting contact, less parents letting kids play eventual the games popularity will erode. In 20 years it may be a much different game than now.

When the first concussion lawsuit hits public schools districts, it will not be long.

Somebody has been watching Hunger Games ...

I don't think so. For a lot of the kids on our team and college football in general, the sport is the only chance they have to make it. Sure it's a risk but worth it.

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When the first concussion lawsuit hits public schools districts, it will not be long.

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I thought kids nowadays had to sign waivers to compete??

With nutrition and better strength training, the players are getting bigger and faster. The impacts on the field are more intense. Yet the real problem is that the protective equipment has not caught up to the athletes. I think better impact resistant padding will overcome the negatives. I heard one sports talking head say that in 20 years the football uniforms will be like Batman's get-up, he then laughed but the other host then chimed in to say he could, seriously, see that. Ags in Kevlar uniforms would be something.
Football will be around in 20 years, keep building those priority points.

Wait, 100 year decision and Kyle Field rebuild! Will we be forced to field a futbol team?

I still think going to a soft helmet makes the most sense, that will stop hitting with the head if they are wearing a wrestling or boxing style helmet.

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I thought kids nowadays had to sign waivers to compete??

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Say what?

the helmets really need to be changed.

that hard shell is more of a weapon than protection.

Seems like somebody would have asked that guy his opinion before putting him up on that panel...

Absent equipment changes I think he's right. However, I would give it a few more waning years than he did.

Australian rules football

When there is as much money in football as there is can the lawyers be far behind? Cigarettes, fast food, football, cars... Nothing is out of reach of the litigant class.

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I doubt it too, but he does have a point about changing social norms. We are a country of wimps now

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pretty sure most FCS teams today would ****ing truck any FBS team from the 50's. the level of speed, size, strength and impact today is unprecedented and more intense than any previous generation. Wimp your dick, bro.

That said I don't think the sport is going anywhere.

Probably not... Weed will be a whole lot more legal though!!

If someone like John David Crow will sue the NFL, how long until some helicopter mom sues a high school or junior high? When the cost of liability gets too high at the grade school level, then you will begin to see fewer and fewer teams.

Yeah, the NFL and profitable college teams will always be around because there's plenty of money to be made, but the quality of prospects going into the system may suffer greatly in the future.

Lawyers and the cult of personality known as political correctness wield powerful weapons.

edit: in short, what OwlAgDad said.

[This message has been edited by Barnacle (edited 6/17/2013 11:00p).]

PB, not speaking to the athletes but the gen public. But even to that how many of todays players would put up with what the Junction Boys did? Or for that matter their parents? They and the media would demand the firing of Bear BryanT!

Thank god we have quidditch to fill the void.

I do agree that we've become pussified but let's not claim that Bryant's ignorance was a good thing either. He was very lucky he didn't kill someone in his career...A moist rag for hydration?

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We are a country of wimps now

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I'd love to see some internet badasses go out and take a full speed helmet to helmet from an elite football player in 2013 and come back to post about the experience.

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We are a country of wimps now

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I'd love to see some internet badasses go out and take a full speed helmet to helmet from an elite football player in 2013 and come back to post about the experience.

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I'd also like to see them say that to the face of a 21 year old kid coming back from the war

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I'd also like to see them say that to the face of a 21 year old kid coming back from the war

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No ****. People posting comments like that are completely out of touch with reality and probably and face their fiercest physical challenges when they try to stretch a jersey over their beer gut on gameday.

Not while their is money involved.

but on the off chance, I have a hollow point bullet ready for that day.

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Dr RC9:23p, yesterday


the helmets really need to be changed.

that hard shell is more of a weapon than protection.

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I wish people would stop this. Just look at how many concussions have come from heads hitting knees, elbows or the ground. Soft helmets may keep people from going head to head, but not the rest. Honestly, look at how many head to head collisions there are. Then look at shoulder shots. They do just as much damage, and occur more often. Putting a soft helmet on the players will only make it worse

Parents are already cutting off the pipeline of players at it's source or mouth. Concussions are scaring them away. In 20 years the game, at least as we know it today, will be totally different if still existing at all.

I stopped reading after the first sentence. Any opinion coming out of liberal, unionized Detroit probably is not worth my time. That said, there is far too much money to be made in football for it to go anywhere. The equipment will catch up soon enough.

Football will exist in some capacity, but it won't be anything resembling the physical sport it was created to be and always has been.

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the helmets really need to be changed.

that hard shell is more of a weapon than protection.

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This is probably the key to the whole thing, with shoulder pads soon to follow. Morphing into an Australian- rules- football-like game.

Will our stadium be paid for by then?

Futbol is having its own issues with concussions. Heading the ball is a leading cause of brain injury in futbol.

If we did away with the helmet all together I guarantee there would be ZERO head to head hits and concussions. No one would want to drive their forehead into someone's chest or nose. Now I know there is absolutely no way this will happen but since we're talking about erroneous things like football becoming extinct in 1 or 2 decades, this thought fits right in