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Originally Posted by MattyC
The pansification would be if peopel were lobbying to take hitting out of these sports.
Lobbying for teaching kids how to protect themselves properly in game is not pansification, it's good sense.
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Overall it was a joke. But the majority of this thread is about taking kids out of contact sports and into gentler or safer sports.
I don't think I'll be having kids so I haven't been following how more dangerous the game has gotten since I was a kid and played. Kids are getting bigger though. The equipment is also getting better.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgar...mets-1.2421805
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A Calgary high school football team is the first in Canada to go high-tech in order to better detect concussions. As part of a pilot project funded by the University of Alberta, all players on the Ernest Manning High School football team had sensors installed in their helmets that measure the impact of hits. So far, they've caught more concussions than other local teams have reported all year.
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This is a great technology and once costs come down will be able to prevent players from going back in after a big hit.
I'm sure hockey and other sports will follow suit
Perhaps one reason I wouldn't want my kid to grow up playing football is the difference in culture I experienced. I can really only comment on football and hockey as they were the two sports I grew up playing, but I knew people on my football team taking steroids as young as 14-15. The coaches knew it too because there is no mistaking a roid rage on the practice field. I never saw anything like that in hockey.
Granted hockey is more of a family sport than football is. I would go to football after school on my own, not a single parent would go to football practice, yet every parent would drive their kids to hockey and typically stay and watch till the end.