Flag football was only recently considered a professional sport because it was seen as girlier than regular football. Flag football was created as a recreational sport for soldiers who enjoyed the game but didn’t want to threaten violence in already dangerous times. Removing the tackling and replacing it with flags changed the game’s culture and […]
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Flag football is a safe alternative to a sport rife with traumatic head injuries. (Op-Ed)
Tackle football poses an intrinsic threat to youth athletes. The National Institutes of Health released data that suggest that tackle football raises the risk for athletes of all ages to develop chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). Repeated traumatic head injuries cause tangles of a protein called tau to build up in the brain; the more injurious […]
