Pop Warner Football participation shrinking.

[velvtacheeze]

Enrollment In Youth Football Drops Nearly 10 Percent | ThinkProgress

Enrollment In Youth Football Drops Nearly 10 Percent

After reaching a record high in 2010, participation in Pop Warner, America’s largest youth football organization, dropped by 9.5 percent over the next two years, ESPN’s Mark Fanairu-Wada and Steve Fanairu reported Wednesday. Enrollment in Pop Warner, which reached nearly 250,000 members in 2010, dropped to just over 225,000 a year ago, according to numbers that hadn’t been previously disclosed.
In total, youth football participation has dropped by 6.7 percent, from 3 million to 2.8 million, according to USA Football, which oversees youth football across the country. The National Sporting Goods Federation says that number may even larger: it found earlier this year that football participation has dropped 11 percent since 2011.
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Good. It's a game for knucklewalkers and bros. The bullying we see in Miami from that racist buffoon Incognito comes from the doltish culture that American football has created. I'm glad it's dying, and it will be as relevant as boxing one day.

I hope Americans will continue to take up soccer, which is a much more refined, civil and safe sport to play.

 

[Jarlaxle]

Soccer has its place. Offhand, it's a GREAT cure for insomnia!

 

[Pennywise]

My mom said had she known better she wouldn't have allowed my brothers and me to play as young as we did. All of us now have physical maladies directly related to pumping iron and playing football too young.

 

[R.C. Christian]

That's what happens when you start creating soccer fields for 3rd world immigrants. Plus the black population is shrinking etc and so on.

 

[HenryBHough]

Hysteria over head injuries from football.

Shows that too many liberal parents have been pushing their git to play - hence the mental state of an entire generation.

 

[R.C. Christian]

What will the 10 year olds today do when the shit really hits the fan? I keep asking my 11 year old that.

 

[HenryBHough]

What will the 10 year olds today do when the shit really hits the fan? I keep asking my 11 year old that.

Bend over.

As they will have learned in "school".

 

[Toro]

Soccer will be the #1 sport in America in 50 years.

 

[WinterBorn]

What will the 10 year olds today do when the shit really hits the fan? I keep asking my 11 year old that.

Exactly what does Pop Warner football do that will help 10 year olds prepare for when the shit really hits the fan?

I'm no soccer fan, and I love my college football. But I would love to hear what you think football teaches a 10 year old about what to do when the shit hits the fan.

 

[Papageorgio]

Enrollment In Youth Football Drops Nearly 10 Percent | ThinkProgress

Enrollment In Youth Football Drops Nearly 10 Percent

After reaching a record high in 2010, participation in Pop Warner, America’s largest youth football organization, dropped by 9.5 percent over the next two years, ESPN’s Mark Fanairu-Wada and Steve Fanairu reported Wednesday. Enrollment in Pop Warner, which reached nearly 250,000 members in 2010, dropped to just over 225,000 a year ago, according to numbers that hadn’t been previously disclosed.
In total, youth football participation has dropped by 6.7 percent, from 3 million to 2.8 million, according to USA Football, which oversees youth football across the country. The National Sporting Goods Federation says that number may even larger: it found earlier this year that football participation has dropped 11 percent since 2011.
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Good. It's a game for knucklewalkers and bros. The bullying we see in Miami from that racist buffoon Incognito comes from the doltish culture that American football has created. I'm glad it's dying, and it will be as relevant as boxing one day.

I hope Americans will continue to take up soccer, which is a much more refined, civil and safe sport to play.

You are not very informed, head injuries and knee injuries are lifetime injuries for former soccer players, it is very tough and takes a huge toll on the body. I you just like to think it is civilized, take a look at American soccer fans, they are some of the worst fans, from drinking to violence. The have to use police escorts to get team buses in and out of US cities.

Far from civil, far from safe.

 

[WinterBorn]

Enrollment In Youth Football Drops Nearly 10 Percent | ThinkProgress

Enrollment In Youth Football Drops Nearly 10 Percent

After reaching a record high in 2010, participation in Pop Warner, America’s largest youth football organization, dropped by 9.5 percent over the next two years, ESPN’s Mark Fanairu-Wada and Steve Fanairu reported Wednesday. Enrollment in Pop Warner, which reached nearly 250,000 members in 2010, dropped to just over 225,000 a year ago, according to numbers that hadn’t been previously disclosed.
In total, youth football participation has dropped by 6.7 percent, from 3 million to 2.8 million, according to USA Football, which oversees youth football across the country. The National Sporting Goods Federation says that number may even larger: it found earlier this year that football participation has dropped 11 percent since 2011.
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Good. It's a game for knucklewalkers and bros. The bullying we see in Miami from that racist buffoon Incognito comes from the doltish culture that American football has created. I'm glad it's dying, and it will be as relevant as boxing one day.

I hope Americans will continue to take up soccer, which is a much more refined, civil and safe sport to play.

You are not very informed, head injuries and knee injuries are lifetime injuries for former soccer players, it is very tough and takes a huge toll on the body. I you just like to think it is civilized, take a look at American soccer fans, they are some of the worst fans, from drinking to violence. The have to use police escorts to get team buses in and out of US cities.

Far from civil, far from safe.

And American soccer fans are tame compared to those in many other countries. How many riots have we seen at soccer matches? Civil? lol

 

[Moonglow]

I refuse to place my children into a dangerous game. Football is very dangerous.

 

[Truthseeker420]

I refuse to place my children into a dangerous game.

Life is dangerous.

 

[Moonglow]

What will the 10 year olds today do when the shit really hits the fan? I keep asking my 11 year old that.

Can you describe a little better what you mean?

 

[Moonglow]

I refuse to place my children into a dangerous game.

Life is dangerous.

Not so much that you are willing to cut it short.

 

[Moonglow]

Soccer will be the #1 sport in America in 50 years.

I'm putting my money on internet surfing.

 

[WinterBorn]

I refuse to place my children into a dangerous game.

Life is dangerous.

I have to agree with the parents that will not allow their kids to play football. My sons both played Pop Warner football, but that was 20 years ago. The medical information concerning head injuries, especially for linemen, is horrific.

Other than boxing, there is not another sport that requires constant and repeated impact to the head the way football does for linemen.

Screwing up your knee will cause you problems. Head injuries are a much worse scenario.

 

[Moonglow]

I refuse to place my children into a dangerous game.

Life is dangerous.

I have to agree with the parents that will not allow their kids to play football. My sons both played Pop Warner football, but that was 20 years ago. The medical information concerning head injuries, especially for linemen, is horrific.

Other than boxing, there is not another sport that requires constant and repeated impact to the head the way football does for linemen.

Screwing up your knee will cause you problems. Head injuries are a much worse scenario.

I played football from 5 to 17. I have had crushed vertebrates in my neck and back. I suffer from the weight lifting from that sport also. I wanted my kids to life healthier longer than I. I am 52 with the spine of an 80 year old.
My kids learned Tia Kwan Do.

 

[strollingbones]

Hysteria over head injuries from football.

Shows that too many liberal parents have been pushing their git to play - hence the mental state of an entire generation.

wow i ran into this when they called wanting my son to play football....i told them no and under no circumstances would he be playing pee wee football...they were trying to start the league....at the time...my reason was growth plates etc...the truth about head injuries was not being told at that time....i dont regret for one minute that my son never played football....odd liberal parents protecting their kids from known risks..

 

[Moonglow]

I refuse to place my children into a dangerous game.

Life is dangerous.

I have to agree with the parents that will not allow their kids to play football. My sons both played Pop Warner football, but that was 20 years ago. The medical information concerning head injuries, especially for linemen, is horrific.

Other than boxing, there is not another sport that requires constant and repeated impact to the head the way football does for linemen.

Screwing up your knee will cause you problems. Head injuries are a much worse scenario.

The guys I knew that played for OU had many injuries that nearly crippled them. Which is one reason I did not play college ball.