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[QUOTE="texascpa, post: 1183840, member: 468"]
The author apparently has never heard the phrase "correlation does not imply causation" in regards to his education vs football participation claim.  Has he polled parents to see if the ones pulling their kids out have bachelor's degrees or is he just making up making assumptions?

The reason so many parents are pulling their kids out of football is the media, plain and simple.  I would argue that blue states watch/listen to CNN and other tripe regularly, and those media outlets are on the "football is bad" bandwagon.  The concussion argument is fully at play because 1) the NFL is the most popular sport in this country and 2) there's a whole hell of a lot of money involved.

However, if you look at concussion statistics per player capita, football is not the most dangerous sport.  [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concussions_in_sport']Hockey is.  Oh, and look what sport is closely behind football...that's right, the new darling of the US sports scene - Soccer.[/URL]  But statistics be damned, football is the bad guy right now.  Your sport will be next, you can rest assure.
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