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[QUOTE="Finwad32, post: 3053284, member: 651"]
I will preface this by saying football will not dissolve but evolve.

It’s disappointing how slow action has been, I believe the following unequivocally...

There is no need for players to be padded until high school. Flag, 7v7 or some type of iteration of that are absolutely sufficient for learning the game while protecting young developing bodies physically.

The research on damage done at a young age is undeniable. At this point it is stubborn machismo holding us back from that next step.

Further technological improvements to equipment are necessary and should continually develop.

Rules to the game, primarily protecting the head, are essential. That eliminates the majority of the problem.

The toll taken on joints and limbs is part of the makeup of the game, but I’d argue that those tolls are comparable within many sports. There will be some consequences to playing contact sports.

The time is now as knowledge becomes more readily available to develop football into what it should be.

It will never go away,  but it will change.
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