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“scares me,†and he thinks the risk of injuries is serious enough that
his preference would be that his boys not play.
In a clarification later, he backed off the statement a bit, but stated that his thirteen-year-old son has already suffered one concussion playing football and that as a parent that worried him.
He made the remarks following the suicide of Junior Seau, just one of a long list of athletes who have committed suicide...and that includes my cousin, who was an all-state linebacker in high school and an All American in college.
My cousin so hated football after he left it that he directed his two boys into baseball and neither ever played football. He stated once to me that he absolutely did not want them playing football, based on what it had done to him. That was twenty years ago; but he may have been suffering its effects long before he committed suicide.
The three most violent sports are football, boxing and hockey. To date fourteen professional hockey players have committed suicide as well as fourteen boxers while nineteen pro American football players have followed suit.
But, here's what may surprise you. A whopping 52 major league baseball players have died at their own hand. Since baseball players don't suffer a lot of concussions, the correlation of athletes to suicides may not be the violence or the concussions but some other link.
Any thoughts?
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