[RealJustme]

The Friday night lights start to dim on high school football

Kids are turning to other sports, and the heartland of high school football is not immune.

Support of high school and college football teams are at an all time low, with some schools dropping their football programs. After several players kneeled during an Austin high school game, over half of those in attendance left, even 6 players disgusted with the disrespect walked off of the field. Businesses and individuals who have been big financial supporters have stopped giving.

Good job assholes.

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[Clownkicker]

RealTool is so clueless that he doesn't understand that just maybe kids and parents are opting OUT of permanent brain damage as a recreational choice.

If the entire game vanished, the world would be better off. Well, except we will be stuck with those white elephant publicly funded stadiums taking up valuable real estate.

[elklindo69]

(Reuters Health) - Participation in high school football has been steadily falling in recent years amid mounting concerns about the potential for traumatic brain injuries to lead to lasting health problems, a U.S. study suggests.

Overall, participation in high school sports has surged from less than 4 million student athletes in 2001 to almost 4.6 million last year, researchers report in JAMA Pediatrics. But participation in football peaked in 2008 at 1.11 million athletes, and then declined almost 5 percent to 1.06 million players by 2017.

“This decline is associated with media attention focused on concussions or brain injuries among football players,” said study co-author Dr. Chris Feudtner of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

News reports about football and brain injuries - one indication of public awareness about the health risks of head injuries on the field - started becoming more common in 2009 and increased each year through the end of the study.

“We are witnessing a large shift in behavior likely due to media coverage,” Feudtner said by email.