and replaced with Soccer....due to all the injuries.
Soccer is a game of skill wheras football is largely dependent on size and muscle mass.
Soccer woujld be much more affordable for schools;...does not require expensive equipment.
We should get in step with the rest of the world whose football is soccer and eliminate all those life changing injuries sustained on Friday nights across this nation whilst high schoolars attempt to be Friday night heroes.
Fuk dat. The only problems with football is 2-fold:
- The players are getting hurt because they've been made candyasses. Used to be you never shied away from a hit, and you played hard, clobbered people. Now they run around wearing pink quirting milk for breast awareness month and getting 15 yard penalties for being happy they scored a point. Put the "man" back in football.
- Out of control rules and penalties. A full third of all the rules and penalties have to go. Let the guys play. While at it, end slo-mo. Things happen in real time; if you need to review a play, it should be seen in real time as it happened as well. Enough of thids frame by frame bullshit.
they need their helmets and pads taken away,,,
I don't know about taken away, but it is notable that the more they improve protection the more injuries go up. A curious coincidence as the auto industry has found that as they improve car protection, air bags, crumple zones, early warning detectors, etc., people feel safer so drive more dangerously and have more accidents.
I was once with a fellow backing out of a parking space using his rear camera on his dash display and almost got the back of his car taken off by a passing motorist. Had he just turned around and used his head to look out the windows, he would have seen him.