Muscato's Musings
Do We Need to Rethink Allowing Kids To Play Tackle Football?
Scientific Research Is Telling Us Yes
It would seem that most of the civilized world is far removed, and far more advanced, understanding, and caring than Sparta, the city-state in ancient Greece. Spartan culture, education, and training were primarily focused on building and sustaining a strong military. When he was seven years old, a Spartan boy was taken from his family and commenced what would be about 11 years of intense physical and martial training and preparation for the life of a solider. This training and prep were exhausting, painful, demanding, and required a young man to be subject to extreme deprivation. It worked, of course, for a while. Sparta was the supreme military power in the region. Yet Sparta would go the way of almost all societies and nations once …
HeatherB
11:06 am on Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Some of our country’s most ardent defenders of player safety, like Dr. Stanley Herring (Lystedt Law progenitor) and Dr. Gerry Gioia of Children’s National Medical Center, endorse USA Football’s safer and better tackling techniques, which are changing tackle terminology and instruction for the betterment of our kids. Better tackling, concussion awareness and management, coaching education and … more ›