The pressure to end football is increasing

[Cheesehead Craig]

According to this article from Feb 2014, football really hasn't decreased much since 2007. They have it at 1,109,511 in 2007 and 1,088,158 in 2014. They got their numbers from National Federation of State High School Associations.

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/tere...school-players

Interesting given that everything else I'm hearing says it's going down by far more than their article says.

[sharpe1027]

http://www.athleticbusiness.com/high...r-decline.html

Despite a few ominous clouds, the future of high school football appears bright. After declining for five years, high school football participation saw an uptick in 2013, with total participation reaching 1.123 million, an increase of 6,607 from the previous year, according to NFHS figures. Whether or not this trend is going to continue remains to be seen.

[Harlan Huckleby]

That is a deliberately deceptive graph. Why can't they start the Y axis at 0 instead of 1,105,000? The answer is they are trying to exaggerate the percentage change.

[Fritz]

According to this article from Feb 2014, football really hasn't decreased much since 2007. They have it at 1,109,511 in 2007 and 1,088,158 in 2014. They got their numbers from National Federation of State High School Associations.

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/tere...school-players

Interesting given that everything else I'm hearing says it's going down by far more than their article says.

My guess is that it's going down everywhere in the US, except for Texas, where it's going up. In fact, there is not only gay-shaming and body-shaming in Texas, there's football-shaming. If you don't try out for peewee football by the age of four, your parents must publicly denigrate you and post the results on YouTube.

[sharpe1027]

That is a deliberately deceptive graph. Why can't they start the Y axis at 0 instead of 1,105,000? The answer is they are trying to exaggerate the percentage change.

Very much so.

[Maxie the Taxi]

That is a deliberately deceptive graph. Why can't they start the Y axis at 0 instead of 1,105,000? The answer is they are trying to exaggerate the percentage change.

I think they just ran short of little purple football helmets.

[red]

That graph also doesn't include the last two years when the concussion Issue has been much greater

[sharpe1027]

That graph also doesn't include the last two years when the concussion Issue has been much greater

Also consider that a participation drop is reportedly occurring with younger kids, so it may take awhile before the high school teams see the full effect.

[sharpe1027]

More recent data:

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/09/29...qlBhQ9tZ0&_r=1

Despite the popularity of college and professional football, the number of male high school football players has fallen to about 1.08 million this year, a 2.4 percent decline from five years ago.

Pop Warner, the largest youth football organization, has seen larger decreases. It has also been sued by a parent of a player who committed suicide at 25 and was found to have chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a brain disease linked to repeated head hits.

[Rastak]

Well, former Viking Fred McNeil passed away. I watched him every sunday in the 70s. He not only had dementia but then was diagnosed with ALS.

The 70's guys, well, it seems they do pay a price. Could be a coinsidence? Could be.


I posted this before....I think before he was diagnosed with ALS.

http://www.gq.com/story/jeanne-marie-laskas-nfl-concussions-fred-mcneill