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RayPray writes:

in response to Ocram:

Ray,

The mind set of these parents who send 13 and 14 year olds out for football will not be swayed by what anyone has to say. Too many of these parents already have their beer soaked minds made up and really don't care what effects this, all too dangerous, contact sport has on their kids. It is like those people who have smoked for the last 30 years even though the information regarding cancer was available to them.

I think sports is okay -- up to a point -- the point where self-advertized 'coaches' and parents start to make fools of themselves from the sidelines.

While you can get injured as a byproduct in any sport, football seems especially evil in that harming the opponent is the main goal.

The only sport worse than football seems to be rugby, but that is a rara avis hereabouts.

I've been to rugby matches in Lee County where the sidelines are decorated by team members on crutches.

Former British PM Gordon Browne, though ostensibly a socialist and paladin of the working class -- had the misfortune of attending an elite 'public' school in Scotland. There, at the age of 16, he suffered a serious rugby injury that left him by now fully blind in one eye and legally blind in the other.

Still, I guess this particular game really made a man out of him....

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