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I've reffed enough youth football here to know that I didn't want my son to participate in this league. Not all coaches are bad but you have no quarantee on who you'll draw.
He played youth soccer until he was 14 and played for the middle school team his 7th grade year. While in MS, I had him go to summer workouts with the football team as it was open to all students and running, drills, and weight training is good for anything and kept him active in the summer while school was out. He decided to switch to football in the 8th grade, wound up starting as a receiver and did the same on JV's and now varsity. Missing football from age 6 to 12 did absolutely nothing to hinder him now.
He suffered a concussion late in a game this season and was held out a week and missed the following game. There have been no subsequent problems and I wasn't troubled by it in the least beyond the initial concern for him after the game and at the ER.
I think all of the reasons listed are valid as well as some sports going almost year round, scholarship mania, central air conditioning, lack of discipline and work ethic, video gaming, the general wussification of America, and possibly a decline in volunteerism.
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