REPORT SAYS NFL'S YOUTH FOOTBALL HEAD'S UP PROGRAM DOES NOT REDUCE CONCUSSIONS DESPITE CLAIMS

The New York Times reports that the NFL's Heads Up youth football program meant to reduce concussions does no such thing.

To cover up this reality, the NFL has lied.  They lie just like the tobacco companies lied.   

From the Times---

As increasing numbers of parents keep their children from playing tackle football for safety reasons, the National Football League and other groups have sought to reassure them that the game is becoming less dangerous....No initiative has received more backing and attention than Heads Up Football, a series of in-person and online courses for coaches to learn better safety procedures and proper tackling drills. The N.F.L. funds and heavily promotes the program. The league and U.S.A. Football, youth football’s governing body, which oversees the program, have sold Heads Up Football to thousands of leagues and parents as having been proved effective — telling them that an independent study showed the program reducing injuries by 76 percent and concussions by about 30 percent.....That study, published in July 2015, showed no such thing, a review by The New York Times has found. The research and interviews with people involved with it indicate, rather, that Heads Up Football showed no demonstrable effect on concussions during the study, and significantly less effect on injuries over all, than U.S.A. Football and the league have claimed in settings ranging from online materials to congressional testimony...participation (in youth football)  has dropped precipitously in recent years, from 3 million in 2010 to about2.2 million last fall — a decline generally attributed to concerns about injuries, particularly to the brain.

Who would let their kids play this sport at this point? Who would want to watch this sport and see men bash their brains out and move towards early death?  

Football is not a sport. It is a public heath crisis just like obesity or smoking. 
 
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