Ballard youth football team fundraising to buy safer helmets

There are parents in Ballard that let their children play tackle football? Yikes.

If you have ever been to a youth soccer game and watched the complete insanity on the sidelines with parents and coaches… you ain’t seen nothing like a youth football game. Parents and coaches reliving their missed glory vicariously through little kids. The screaming and yelling is mind boggling, all in the name good fun? The helmets are indeed expensive and rated the very best, however joint, back, shoulder and knee injures are the real issue in youth sports since the bones are still growing. ACL, MCL are very real problems and will cause the kids to have issues the rest of their life. So by all means protect their heads but maybe look at the published stats and see what the real injuries. So if your plan is to get a full ride for your kid at a PAC12 school, better start saving your money because the odds are stacked way against you and your kid.

Insanity, really?!

Have you ever been to a Ballard Knights game? This is Pee Wee football. Most of the kids aren’t coordinated enough to deliver the hits your describing. My son played for them for 3 years and it was a great experience for him. Out of all those games and practices he attended there was one injury. One child rolled his ankle in practice. Not a game, but practice and he returned in two days. And no parents were trying to relive their youth through their children.

There was one game where a set of parents on the opposing team started to get upset because they felt a call should have been made. They began yelling at one of the referees. The game was stopped and the field manager had those parents leave the field or the game would have been forfeited to avoid the problems you are referring to. So there is no screaming or yelling, just cheering. You should really attend one of the games before you start falsifying what it is actually like.