You have no clue because you never played. Kids can play tackle football without helmets or pads. The hits are not as bad when your a kid being hit by another kid.
Pop Warner is organized football and in organized football they wear equipment .
Pickup street football you go at it with no equipment. You get banged up, sprained ankles and the wind knocked out from time to time but no one every broke any bones or had serious injuries in my neighborhood games.
Could little kids get by with no pads? Absolutely. But putting on a helmet and pads for the kids is half the fun and reducing liability for the league is the other half.
Those of us who aren't total pussies would disagree, TBH.
I mean we got bruised up at times but is that really considered an injury?
It also helped playing in cold weather, Connecticut where there would be enough layers of sweatshirts that went as padding.
We played tackle football all the time without pads when I was a kid you ing puss.
lmao
Only if you get a bruised vagina, tbh
What kind of sheltered ass little got didn't play tackle football without pads as a kid?
Pussy as
Don't break a nail while posting. got.
right, there's a liability.
kindergartners can probably get by I guess. If that's when you played tackle football everyday, then I can see how you don't recall getting hurt.
Pop warner goes up to age 14, 160lbs. If you don't think they need a helmet at that age, frankly you're ignorant.
coming from someone that claims they have good days and bad days because of basketball.
lmao.
you sound like 1950s leather helmet guy.
did you play Pop Warner football without a helmet?
doubtful.
in HATE Pop Warner!
Blake - if you want to try to make me seem like a bigger pussy than you because I have little cartilage left in my right knee and the impact from basketball has had a bad effect on it, then feel free. But given what you've posted in this thread, not sure how successful you'll be.
You really should have just let this die after pretty much everyone acknowledged you were a hairy fishy smelling young boy. Nice bump.
tbh the only reason i don't watch soccer more is simply lack of exposure. i don't think the game is boring at all
it's hard to catch on to a sport when all the best players are from other countries and not even playing here. the MLS is a complete joke compared to the rest of the world. on top of that, they rarely ever broadcast those games anyway. so it's much harder for me to catch on when American players are considerably worse than players around the world
everytime the World Cup is on, i root for America just as much as any of my favorite teams in the NBA, NFL, or MLB
I think you implying that basketball was tougher on you than than the tackle football you played many times is a rather stupid comment to make.
Almost as stupid as you thinking soccer might actually overtake basketball in popularity here in the US.
10 year old kids can crack skulls in organized tackle football. If you've played organized tackle football with no helmet at that age or older, then feel free to talk all the tough guy you want.You really should have just let this die after pretty much everyone acknowledged you were a hairy fishy smelling young boy. Nice bump.
Of course, that would make you stupid beyond belief, but definitely tough as .
If football was popular in the US, Blake would love it.
Probably not, but DAF86, what is your opinion as to why soccer is not popular in the U.S.?
All the kids around the world who play rugby must be dumb but tough as then.
It was definitely tougher on my knee. I played far more basketball then I did football. You somehow think because I played tackle football that never had any adverse affects on my knee that it completely overrides the knee injuries I had while playing basketball and the literal impact of jumping that many times on my knees?
I know right! Basketball has always been the most popular sport and always will be...Oh...wait....Almost as stupid as you thinking soccer might actually overtake basketball in popularity here in the US.
YOU brought organized into this. No one else did. You were a pussy who couldn't play tackle with your friends as a kid because you'd have your vagina bruised so easily.10 year old kids can crack skulls in organized tackle football. If you've played organized tackle football with no helmet at that age or older, then feel free to talk all the tough guy you want.
And it doesn't matter than kids can crack their skulls playing football. They can crack their skulls walking down the stairs. Thats not to say that we wouldn't consider anyone walking down the stairs with a helmet a pussy.
But anyway, lets be clear Blake. No one would have made fun of you for playing Pop Warner with pads and a helmet. YOU said this:
I mean , if you can't even play touch without getting hurt then there really is no hope for you.It never took long for someone to get hurt bad playing tackle football even in someones yard. It got old quick. We always played touch on the street......and even then we got beat up pretty good.
I really don't care that you don't like soccer or that you don't think its ever going to catch on. That's fine. No one is ever going to win an argument of opinions.
On the other hand, saying that you as a kid couldn't handle tackle football and had a hard time with touch is a pretty sure fire way to prove just how weak you are.
I really don't have a clue, probably a mix of not beign an American invented sport, a lack of exposure and lack of an elite football player born in the us. I'm sure that if the US had a Messi or a Cristiano Ronalo the sport would be a lot bigger there.
Worst injury I ever saw first hand was playing basketball. Dude broken either his radius or ulna and the bone broke through the skin. Did see a guy break his collar bone - with full pads - my freshman year of football. But it didn't break through the skin and he just looked like someone had shoot him in the shoulder as he cried out for our coach.
I'd imagine that what Blake looked like everytime he got touched playing football in the street.
Bingo.
I'd say a lot of rugby players are stupid for not wearing protective gear, but rugby rules are not the same as American football.
your ignorance of the difference between the two sports is duly noted.
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