like soccer is fairly dangerous, you can easily fuck up your legs both short and long term but the only deaths associated with it really are due to heart problems which can happen in any sport
the heat thing is curious, they have ad breaks, don’t they have water breaks?
No, drinking water makes you soft.
This is not a joke, this is a strongly held belief in the football coach community.
They will literally do multiple practices per day, multiple hours per practice, no water allowed, every single day during peak summer heat. This is NOT an exaggeration. Sports coaches in the US are BROKEN
Sports in America is mostly just a way of letting dudes blow off steam by emotionally abusing helpless children, one of our favorite pastimes.
I love this clip from King of the Hill portraying it accurately
It should also be noted that now that some coaches have realized they have to let kids drink water or they might get sued, they’re just forcing kids into water intoxication instead, since the torture and deaths are the point
High school football doesn’t have ‘ad breaks’, what are you on about? Also, I would bet most of that is during practice, because most highschool coaches are unqualified good ol’ boy morons that don’t really give a shit about your health. Football as a sport is fucking cool as hell, but the amateur and minor league are just rife with exploitation and dumbfuckery because it is seen as a ‘meathead sport’.
american football has a more serious issue because of all the helmets and gear they wear, overheating is more common. water breaks and so on help but ultimately kids are kids and will forget to do stuff in the moment, theyre also more likely to take a game way too seriously because their parents are excited
i used to go to summer camps as a kid and every year a kid would pass out from heat exhaustion while hiking or something, one died
