Is football safe for kids?
Mark Proctor, MD, Contributing Editor
"As a profession, we need to educate the public on the dangers of the sport, and we can certainly recommend that youth not play football in favor of other team sports — similar to the stance the AAP took on boxing. However, while taking a strong stand against tackling might be the right thing to do from a health perspective, as physicians, we need to look at the situation realistically: regardless of our stance as a profession, we are not going to see a rule prohibiting tackling in football. Football is such an incredibly popular sport, and elimination of tackling would change the nature of the sport so dramatically, that as an initiative, it is bound to fail."
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