Deion Sanders: Dangerously Ignorant.

Nantz: "Hello, friends. I'd like to take time out -- that's time, as in Rolex -- to talk to you about a silent killer endangering America's youth: girls soccer."

 

Not sure if this is what Nantz is talking about but it took about 10 seconds to find this thru The Google. So I'm not sure why people are saying they can't find a study on the issue.

If I'm reading the info under "This Article" correctly, the study appeared on-line last January and in print in April.

http://ajs.sagepub.com/content/40/4/747

Study shows that girl's soccer is No. 2 behind football in terms of the rate of concussions.

Rock Center did the following piece back in May: http://rockcenter.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/05/09/11604307-concussion-crisis-growing-in-girls-soccer

Not sports related but diagnosis of pediatric concussions rose by 58 percent between 2001 and 2010 according to a study by Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City.

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/highschool-prep-rally/girls-soccer-not-hockey-second-most-concussions-dr-184921171.html

Hospital release on the study from last April: http://www.childrensmercy.org/Content/uploadedFiles/Departments/Press_Room/Children's%20Mercy%20Researchers%20Find%20Concussions%20in%20Children%20More%20Than%20Doubled%20From%20Ten%20Years%20Ago.pdf

Information is out there about other sports but people only want to talk about football for some reason.

 

Nantz said a study has shown women's college soccer players are 2 1/2 times more likely to get a concussion than a college football players.

Where's that study? Because unless I'm misreading it "The majority of concussions resulted from participation in football (47.1%, n = 912), followed by girls’ soccer (8.2%, n = 159) ..." sure doesn't seem like 2 1/2 more likely to me.

 

No idea where he's getting his info. Was just pointing out that studies on the subject have been done.

it is surprising that soccer is the most dangerous sport for girls to play though. Wonder how many parents will steer their girls away from the sport.

 

Yes, studies have been done. But none that have (or at least that I've been able to find) that support the stat he threw out there.

 

Keep Our Own Kids Safe has been working on this issue for over 15 years:

 

They don't need the stats. They just need to fool enough people into repeating the lie. From Boom and AQB on this thread, we can tell that strategy is working.

 

Sorry, where did I say soccer was more dangerous than football? I never did.

I was merely pointing out that soccer is the most dangerous sport for girls to play. More dangerous than the perceived-to-be-more-violent sport of ice hockey.

 

That's because he is talking out of the wrong end of his anatomy on this one.

It is absolutely an issue worth talking about in all sports, though football certainly has the largest issue.

 

A lot of the concussion issues with soccer -- male and female -- will go away when the header is banned.

The concussion issues in football are not such an easy fix.

 

Agree - the header should be banned.

 

Maybe somebody who is more into soccer and its culture than I am can help out here. Is that a drastic and fundamental change to the way the game is played? It seems like it might be.

Not that I'm against the idea. I've heard it from soccer coaches, some of whom have at gotten to the point of drastically limiting the amount of work their players do on headers in practice.