#pop warner

[baseballbybsmile]

New York Yankees stars Babe Ruth & Lou Gehrig put on football uniforms for a special dinner before the 1927 Notre Dame vs. USC game in Chicago! (L-R) Pop Warner, Babe Ruth, Knute Rockne, Christy Walsh, Lou Gehrig, Howard Jones & Tad Jones. (edit/color by BSmile)

[electronicsquid]

Icky’s Cookies football team

(Michael Rougier. 1954?)

[cranquis]

(Description from CNN article) A young football player stares down his opponents. He hikes the ball. Then the coach passes him a cigarette, which his mother happily lights.

That's the premise for a new PSA from the Concussion Legacy Foundation, which wants parents to consider the long-term damage youth tackle football could inflict on their kids.

The new PSA, which premiered Thursday morning on YouTube, kicks off the "Tackle Can Wait" campaign. The goal is for parents to keep kids out of tackle football until they're 14 to lessen their risk of chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE.

I support this kinda-shocking ad campaign -- BUT I have to rant a minute about the quotation in the CNN article from neurosurgeon Dr. Julian Bailes (who is affiliated with the Pop Warner youth football program). Dr. Bailes states that comparing smoking and youth tackle football is "misleading and inaccurate” because:

"There are nearly half a million people in the US who die from illnesses related to tobacco use, and there are no deaths in youth football.”

WHAT kind of misleading and inaccurate crap is this, Dr. Bailes? Of course there are no [CTE] deaths in youth tackle football... because the effects of CTE take many years to manifest!! C’mon, doctor, this isn’t brain surgery. [OH WAIT ACTUALLY IT KIND OF IS, WHICH IS YOUR SPECIALTY.]

Bailes’ argument boils down to: “Well, if youth tackle football is as dangerous as smoking, then people would be dying as soon as they smoke their first cigarette! So go ahead and bang your kids’ heads together, parents, they’ll be fine -- at least until after they’ve moved out from your home, anyways!”

What an obviously-biased commentary by a medical professional, blatantly misinterpreting science and epidemiology, just to shill for a business organization -- makes me SICK.

[tjtevlin]

1974 Pop Warner football. Maplewood/South Orange Packers. I’m number 54.

[the-football-chick]

what the what … low blow, kid

via IG: houseofhighlights

[baseballbybsmile]

Today In 1927: New York Yankees stars Babe Ruth & Lou Gehrig put on football uniforms for a special dinner before the Notre Dame vs. USC game in Chicago! (L-R) Pop Warner, Babe Ruth, Knute Rockne, Christy Walsh, Lou Gehrig, Howard Jones & Tad Jones. (edit/color by BSmile)

[the-football-chick]

IG: maxpreps

[liberty1776]

My grandfather on right in ball cap with "Pop" Warner on left. Grandpa was an assistant coach under Warner at the University of Pittsburgh. My dad had this photo in his home office when I was a kid, Grandpa died before my first birthday, so when dad showed me this photo when I was a kid, I naturally thought the older man was grandpa not the guy in the ball cap. Grandpa taught dentistry at Pitt. Many of Pop's great players were dental students, a possable result of Grandpa's recruiting skills.