Fighting for standards of safety practice and injury protocol while supporting the freedom of football choice!
Massachusetts
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Agreed, and youth coaches should listen up too. The future of neighborhood football is in the balance. Engagement with your student athletes that need it the most is more important than ever!
We are pretty impressed with our social media director's rhyming skills.
10 retweets and he'll rap it for us! @savefootballMA @SaveYFNY @USAFootball @cayfalliance @AYF @Pop_Warner @NewEnglandAYF @PopWarner_NE @SaveYouthFB @saveyouthfbca @NFLLegends @SBNation
"We just don't believe in banning youth sports" - @SFamiano @cayfalliance
Couldn't have said it better!
Steve Famiano, a co-founder of the California Youth Football Alliance who lives in Apple Valley and has served in youth football for 18 years, said of the court decision, “This is big.” @saveyouthfbca @massyfa2 @NYYFAlliance @SaveYFNY @savefootballMA
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We are aware of the accusations made towards coaches and administrators today within the Framingham Youth Football program. The situation has been turned over to the proper authorities and is currently being investigated. (continued 1 of 3)
Just one of the reasons in @MassGov for tackle football! We are better together reversing the stigma our sport has been dished out by the CLF-Nowinski marketing machine. #saveyouthtackle #goodfootballparents
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Scientists employed by the Mayo Clinic and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and published by the Journal of the American Medical Association paint a picture of positive health outcomes for football players.
Thanks @USAFootballHC and @PWLS for your appearance on Tuesday! Thanks also to @cayfalliance and @forensicpathdoc for supporting testimony.
@AYF and @MHSFCA4 for your continued support along the way. Full testimony is available here to view:
massyfa.com/testimony
Our CEO Scott Hallenbeck, joined by representatives from @Pop_Warner and @MassYFA2, testified in Boston today to to oppose Bill H2007 which aims to ban youth tackle football in the Bay State.
Read Scott’s full testimony: usafootball.com/media/7636/u…
This is marketing material, not testimony.
If they play how long? 97% played after HS (204 out of 211).
How many of the remaining 3% (7) played youth, did they play in today's era with the changes, since second impact syndrome, and we now sit out players with concussions?
“The risk with football is if you start at 5, you have 10x the risk of developing CTE as someone who started at age 14.”
Tuesday, @ChrisNowinski1, Ph.D., testified on a panel in support of a Mass. bill that would ban tackle football before 8th grade:
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Was there a control group for those 7 players? Average age 51, assuming the 7 players graduated HS in 1984. How many of the nearly 1,000,000 other players were included?
@MassGovernor @MassLtGov @MassGov stop the madness #defeath2007
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Thank you Dr. Zayas for standing up against the marketing campaigns put out against youth tackle football!
We are stronger with you on our side working all together to #saveyouthfootball @USAFootball @AYF @Pop_Warner @cayfalliance @NFHS_Org @NFLLegends
I will provide testimony next wk in NYC opposing legislation to ban tackle football for children under the age of 12. We are making great strides to minimize risk in football at all levels. All sports have an inherent risk; focusing on football is not fair @USAFootball @NYSPHSAA
We mentioned this in our oral testimony today. 11,000 kids, 14 years, and No increased risk for cognitive impairment!
@MassGov stop the madness and kill h2007
Put this headline in the “Headline Hall of Fame”.
Study: Youth Football Safer Than We Thought
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Thank you @USAFootballHC for defending tackle football here in our Commonwealth.
We are stronger together!
All of football in this together. Testifying alongside @USAFootball @USAFootballHC @Pop_Warner @PWLS with the support of @AYF @cayfalliance @JimIrsay @NFLLegends @AndreTippett @Patriots to defeat of h2007 and reversing the stigma of youth tackle football and it's volunteers!
"There is a common perception that there's a direct causal link between youth contact sports, head injuries and downstream adverse effects like impaired cognitive ability and mental health," said Adam Bohr, PhD "We did not find that."
Wow.
11,000 youth followed for 14 years, University of Colorado - Boulder
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Defeat h.2007 the adverse affects to our youth, especially "at risk youth", would be catastrophic
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We continue to stand together to fight h2007. Contact you local officials and the public health committee to show your support for youth tackle football.
Tues. Room B-1 @MassGov 1pm
We need to act now, here is your chance to engage your elected officials, and submit testimony to the committee.
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...are not applicable to kids playing football before and during high school. There is absolutely no linkage to CTE at these levels, and the word “danger” should not be a part of the discussion.
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Note: I haven’t come across studies focusing more on those that played football as a youth up through high school but not afterward.
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That's been our headline all along.
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Defeat h.2007 (hd2501) Hearing 10/22
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Show your support!
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And just like that @MassGov schedules the hearing Oct. 22
Coincidence that PSA hit piece came out yesterday?
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Tiki Barber saw through the attack on Mom's Dad's Youth Football Coaches and Team Mom's!
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These are you customers and volunteers they attacked.We are waiting and watching, who has our backs! @NFL
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