I only have a daughter, but this is the way I'll approach it with her and sports and if I have a son, the same.

Honestly, I'd worry more about wrestling than football if I end up with a son. Not only is there concussions and some potentially serious soft tissue injuries, but cutting weight, especially at a young age is a bad deal. I'm pretty sure I'll draw some pretty serious lines in the sand about cutting weight if I have a son that wants to wrestle.

Same goes with my daughter and gymnastics if it comes to that. I'm all about eating healthy, I'm not all about skipping meals for kids.

football teaches me about life everyday. I mean when I am working in the office everyday I really know how to push myself and eat everyone's lunch at one time out of the refridgerator, exept for Yan...he always brings fish.

I'd love for Arians to elaborate on what life lessons you get out of football that you can't out of another team sport. Great coach, but I lost some respect of him as a person.

You don't think there are life lessons that can be learned by playing football that can't be learned by playing baseball or basketball?

Until I get an example, yes. There is nothing unique about the game of football itself that translates to life outside of it more than any other team sport.

No. There are not. I'm the father of four children. Every single one of them at one point played football, baseball and soccer. They also individually participated in other organized physical activities. Track and field, volleyball, softball, rodeo, field hockey, tennis, karate, boxing, hiking, cycling and probably a few I can't remember off the top of my head. There is nothing specifically unique about youth football that can only be learned by participating in it.

LMAO

"I'm more concerned about how this perception hurts our bottom line than i am about the players getting their brains splattered"

Football teaches teamwork and trust better than any other sport. It is the only team sport that can't be won solely by having the best player on the field.

Nobody said that football teaches life lessons that can't be learned by participating in other activities. Football just does a better job of teaching teamwork and trust than these other sports/activities.

You can also learn life lessons about discipline and hard work from taking piano lessons, Bruce.

Football isn't the end-all-be-all teaching tool of the human experience, you beret-wearing reerun

I was a huge fan of Arians before he issued this statement.

Now, not so much.

And FWIW, "Life Lessons" can be gleaned in a myriad of ways, whether through family, friends, school, church, music, chores, first jobs, etc.

I learned my toughest "Life Lesson" at age 16, when I washed dishes in a restaurant from 6pm-1am, Thursday through Sunday, for 11 weeks that summer.

I learned that I never wanted to be a ****ing dishwasher, ever again.

No, it doesn't. Your second statement is also untrue.

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Arians puts this out in the media? What a complete idiot. Shut your pole hole n coach, coach.

Much like what Dane pointed out, each kid has to learn his/her own lessons. And sometimes football is the best avenue for the requisite lesson. Sometimes it isnt.

How is it not the same?? I typed the 1st one on my phone and then then I went back through my posts and found my detailed version. Everything is the same except detail. Why in the world would I lie on a messageboard that I barely visit

Also I was just sharing my story