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OT: Warning -- Youth Tackle Football is Like Smoking
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<blockquote data-quote="steelfrog" data-source="post: 2775474" data-attributes="member: 416"><p>For the most part, not really.</p><p></p><p>There's a certain size and athletic ability that is very rare that results in an NFL player. In Steel's experience, that is quite obvious.</p><p></p><p>Now there are many people who have that size/athletic ability who still can't play in the NFL. </p><p></p><p>Let's look at numbers. There's something like what, say 5% of HS players who go on to play D1 football; of those, 1% or so play in the NFL. So that's, of HS players, what, 5 of every 1,000 is a NFL guy? Probably fewer than that, but you get the point.</p><p></p><p>Multiply that by 20 and that still means only 10% of HS players even have the basic size/athletic ability to make money at football, which means 90% do not. Visit any HS game and that becomes obvious.</p><p></p><p>So, you've got 90%+ of the kids who are essentially cannon fodder for the others. Doesn't make a lot of sense.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="steelfrog, post: 2775474, member: 416"] For the most part, not really. There's a certain size and athletic ability that is very rare that results in an NFL player. In Steel's experience, that is quite obvious. Now there are many people who have that size/athletic ability who still can't play in the NFL. Let's look at numbers. There's something like what, say 5% of HS players who go on to play D1 football; of those, 1% or so play in the NFL. So that's, of HS players, what, 5 of every 1,000 is a NFL guy? Probably fewer than that, but you get the point. Multiply that by 20 and that still means only 10% of HS players even have the basic size/athletic ability to make money at football, which means 90% do not. Visit any HS game and that becomes obvious. So, you've got 90%+ of the kids who are essentially cannon fodder for the others. Doesn't make a lot of sense. [/QUOTE]
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