(i don't think football should be banned but at pro level they must sign "at your own risk" contract)
FEMINIST AGENDA:
"Next Big Culture Clash: Banning Football"
"...Chait's contribution to this debate comes at an
inauspicious time. Just prior to his article's publication
three high school football players, including a 16-year-
old in Suffolk County, died in a one-week period. But as
Chait shows, despite this horrid coincidence such
tragedies are in fact exceedingly rare, and the high
school football fatality rate is actually lower than that for
basketball, lacrosse and water polo. As Boot noted in
the Wall Street Journal last year, football deaths at all
levels have declined precipitously from 36 in 1968 to
fewer than ten per year the last few decades, and far
fewer Americans die playing football than horseback
riding, bicycling, swimming – or being struck by
lightning. Even the incidence of concussions – the source
of much legitimate concern about the NFL – is only
"incrementally higher" in football at all levels (6.4 per
100,000 athletic events) than in ice hockey (5.4), boys'
lacrosse (4.0), or girls' soccer (3.4), Chait points out..."
