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[QUOTE="Millhouse, post: 282300, member: 78"]
the only problem with youth football is that your kid might like it and keep playing it long enough for it to get dangerous when they're older.
 
short term, there might not be that much difference.
 
the problem of insanely fast and huge guys killing each other in the pros probably doesn't matter to some pop warner dad who knows that his kid's not going to make it that far. up to a certain age, it's
 
probably not much different than baseball or lacrosse. little guys can still throw and hit it pretty hard (heart attacks, freak brain injuries), much closer to adult velocity than they can throw their own bodies.
 
football will survive because the odds of making it to the most dangerous level are so slim that it won't factor into parents' decisions too much, and the tiny slice of players who make it to that high dangerous level will have gone too far down that road to do something different.
 
the only way it dies is if people stop wanting to watch it at high levels because it's distasteful.  if parents turn off the tv on saturdays and sundays, then kids won't know enough to even start.  it's not going to be a conscious probability formula.
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