Originally posted by RishikeshA:
I walk in the park with my dogs early in the morning and I finally see it. From daybreak till sunset boys and girls are playing soccer. There's a football field with no yard markers only soccer lines. There are goal posts but underneath are the goal nets. Baseball is played for both boys and girls with good participation. I don't see any football, at all. We football fans are blind, we think football will always be number one without question. The only problem is the generation coming up has found something everyone can play without the violence. I don't know if this should be in Parking Lot or Other Sports, Mods can put it wherever.
My daughter played soccer for the first time this year JV team, the spring league. She's a gymnast and golfer also.
The staring goal keep for Varsity blew out her knee. They moved up our Keep to Varsity. The backup JV keep broke a couple fingers. Then my daughter was like uh I guess I'll play keep cause no one else wanted to. She was stepped on run over kicked in the face etc. Two girls were out because of concussions. Soccer is a violent sport at the HS level. I guess you haven't watched a JV or Varsity game at that level lol.
My son is playing 8th grade football right now and there's 45 kids on the team. They split into two teams and are playing other schools with 50 kids on 8th grade teams some split some not. Our 7th grade team only has 16 kids. One year we have 20 some kids the next year 40 some. It's been that way for the last 6 years. One kid is out with a concussion this year. He showed mild signs of one and it's an automatic 2 weeks on the bench. Back in my day the coach would have hit you on the head and told you to get back in there as long as you can still see. One kid is out with a neck sprain and another with bruised ribs auto week on the bench, no exceptions.
I see the same amount of violence watching both sports.
If parents are worried about kids getting hurt they should all play golf.
