It looks as though high school parents have a new Football pool; "Well my child live to vie for the NFL?
October 24, 2015
By Mike Florio
In most respects, (click here) I miss the fact that my son no longer is in high school. In one very important respect, I don’t miss it at all.
I don’t miss spending three hours or so every Friday night worrying that he’s going to be seriously injured, or worse, playing football.
Injuries happen at every level of the game. Deaths happen all too frequently at the high school level of the game. Via Deadspin, a 17-year-old Chicago boy named Andre Smith died early Friday after taking a hit on the last play of a Thursday night game.
That’s seven deaths for high-school football players this year. But there’s no national outcry, no demand for investigations or regulations or anything other than a candlelight vigil for the victim, a discreet exhale from any parents in the community who aren’t burying a son, and a quiet hope that the next football player who dies on the field won’t be the football player who lives in their house.
The odds remain incredibly small, given the number of high-school football programs in the United States. As Deadspin notes, the 2015 numbers aren’t out of whack, which means that losing seven young lives to football before Halloween is just another year in the shared American experience....
By Mike Florio
In most respects, (click here) I miss the fact that my son no longer is in high school. In one very important respect, I don’t miss it at all.
I don’t miss spending three hours or so every Friday night worrying that he’s going to be seriously injured, or worse, playing football.
Injuries happen at every level of the game. Deaths happen all too frequently at the high school level of the game. Via Deadspin, a 17-year-old Chicago boy named Andre Smith died early Friday after taking a hit on the last play of a Thursday night game.
That’s seven deaths for high-school football players this year. But there’s no national outcry, no demand for investigations or regulations or anything other than a candlelight vigil for the victim, a discreet exhale from any parents in the community who aren’t burying a son, and a quiet hope that the next football player who dies on the field won’t be the football player who lives in their house.
The odds remain incredibly small, given the number of high-school football programs in the United States. As Deadspin notes, the 2015 numbers aren’t out of whack, which means that losing seven young lives to football before Halloween is just another year in the shared American experience....
