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Originally Posted by gordon30307
Hi Jeff,
Jeff I'm telling you just drive around on a Saturday there are way way more kids playing Soccer than football. When the concussion stats come out and if it's shown that the long term effects are harmful the Moms won't let their kids play. Incidently I don't particularly care for Soccer. And don't even go there that college athletes aren't exploited. I mean it's a big deal when one of them graduates with a meaningful major. Everyones making money but the athletes.
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Gordon,
I do not need to drive around any community when I know the culture of football officiating in our area. Almost everyone on a football crew in our area has a guy or several guys that work either college football or youth football over the weekends. And the youth guys make a lot of money working youth games over the weekend as they almost never work one game. They are working multiple levels and several at one setting. I am not seeing any youth soccer being played at the rate I see football games being played. Now that is anecdotal of course, but if all these kids are playing soccer, I go by many fields or colleges and I do not see a soccer game being played. What I do see is adult soccer on those fields and it is not folks that you could say are
You and I both know a certain assignor that assigns basketball that assigns youth football for almost every Pop Warner and Bill George league in the area. I have even worked a few weekends this year myself and for a few years used to work the Chicago Catholic Grade School League that was played in public parks or places where multiple fields were available, they were not playing soccer on those fields and it is not just dads sitting on the sidelines yelling at their kid "Get the ball." Whether there were single mothers or married couples, a lot of women were there watching their kids. I would even say that most of the fans watching were women. I doubt that these were just people in the community coming to watch someone else's kids play a game when the kids can barely run with a helmet on their head.
And this is not something that we cannot figure out. If soccer is becoming the rage, why aren't there more teams and participants in our state or nationwide? A kid that is 6'8 in our country is not playing soccer and being a goalie (like they do in other countries), they are playing basketball and only basketball in many cases. You have to have more evidence than what you see driving. We can measure this.
Peace