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Well I do in fact have 3 sons, and if they want to play
contact sports, including football, they're allowed to play.
I played 10 years myself. I have a career that I always say when I return home
none of my family or friends can remember with any specificity,
but I think it's important. I think sports teach so many important aspects to life.
They teach teamwork, competition, winning and losing, sacrifice,
the value of a team greater than the individual,
and the thrill of victory is something that's hard to get over.
If particularly a teenage athlete, and particularly a male,
is not playing football, they are not--or another contact sport--
they are not necessarily going to be doing just risk-aversive behavior.
They are going to doing like I did when I grew up in Louisiana,
drag racing cars or water skiing at night or jumping off bridges, things of that sort.
So I think you have--I encourage parents we have to consider the entire spectrum.
But if someone has 3 or more concussions, particularly depending on a lot issues,
but the amateur athlete with that many concussions,
then you may begin to consider that they become career ending.