@alannahbarclay @RowenBo69 @BrendanSugrue 1) Maybe because it's a great sport that instills great values like brotherhood, self-sacrifice, goal-setting, perseverance and physical fitness. Studies have also shown that is no more dangerous than the other act
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@wilnerhotline It isn't necessarily all that startling. There's evidence (https://t.co/ELbK0w2ZGi) that the harm comes from *youth* football. Do we know when Hoffpauir started playing?
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@Richard86310386 @YogiRoth @KirkHerbstreit The solution to CTE appears to be not letting young kids play tackle football, full stop. It is youth football, and not football generally, where the risk lies. https://t.co/soLHTN6IQ6
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@WB_BARR I've got some reading to do. CTE has become a moral panic, and fear leads to bad decisions from avoiding perceived but tiny risks. Your interrogators may want to look at the 50-year follow-up papers from high-school football players. For example: