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Post by 19delta on Sept 27, 2008 20:29:23 GMT -6
You know I read an editorial in the paper around the year 2000. it was titled '98. I don't have the article but the jist of it was there were some town folk complaining about kids riding around town real fast, yelling at women, fighting and generally raising havoc. the kids were riding around on their horses, the year was 1898. kids haven't changed. we have changed as adults and as a society. Yeah...I've seen that, too. I use it in my social studies class as kind of a "ha-ha" thing. But, kids HAVE changed...technology, friends, mass youth culture...kids and parents BOTH are a lot different than they were back when I was in high school.
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Post by los on Sept 28, 2008 20:03:12 GMT -6
Wow....can't believe I missed reading this thread.....Awesome posts coach "D", something everyone needs to think about!.....Amen to your post Phantom.....as a fellow 71 graduate of hs football, I agree....well, except the blocking or hitting low, but we'll have to disagree on that, lol....I don't think the players were any tougher back then, but we were definitely "more afraid" to complain or tell someone, when we were injured......it was almost like, if they couldn't "see anything wrong with you"....you were just a whiner and then might suffer some humiliation in front of your friends...so sure, guys played with concussions, heel bruises, sprains and other fairly painful injury's at times.....doesn't make it right though and like Phantom said....a lot of them had problems, later in life.........the game should have outgrown this attitude, with everything we've learned over the last 4 decades......I'm kinda thinking like coach D.....the better trained and conditioned athletes of today, may be like creating a monster, that equipment technology, safety rules and "I hope" better overall coaching, can't keep up with? If I was seeing an increase in injuries, especially concussions, I'd be very afraid! los
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