Is the future of high school football on the line?

[clearvision]

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The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest, wrote poet William Blake. He wasn’t talking about football, but administrator Roger Blake very much is when he says the game is at a critical juncture: Someday, without changes, it could run out of receivers.

 

This Blake is executive director of the California Interscholastic Federation, which oversees athletics at 1,576 high schools. He raised eyebrows recently when he told reporters on a conference call that the next two to three years will be crucial for the future of the nation’s most popular sport.

 

Eight high school football players have died since this season began, five from head or neck injuries. Three more died during preseason practice from heat-related causes or sickle cell tied to exertion. And concussion concerns continue apace, as they have for several seasons.

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Obviously serious injuries are not good, but I suspect if you take the sport away, there will be more deaths and injuries from teenagers with too much idle time and no lack of goals in life.

 

 

[nickydog]

Still, swimming is better, right @clearvision?

[clearvision]

Still, swimming is better, right @clearvision?

 

I would have to be very un-PC to say why swimming would not do the same thing.