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Originally Posted by G NASTY
With all those injuries and concussions how can you say the positive outweighed the negative for you?
Surely the grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr football life lessons and rawrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr football bonds you've formed could have been formed in other sports.
Thinking that only football provides those things is really close minded thinking.
Football was basically the only way I could afford college.
I got an undergraduate degree and two years coaching experience.
I got another year coaching experience year after college.
Paid for a large portion of my Master's degree.
A year experience(albeit not the best situation) coaching at a 1-AA level program.
I now have a Master's degree.
Paid high school coaching position with a full-time teaching position to come in an economic period where teachers are not being hired.
I think football did more for me than just about anything ever will in my life. I sustained more injuries than your typical player, probably by a large margin. I was unlucky. I took a couple of nasty hits and unlucky ones as well. None of which are causing a tremendous amount of life altering changes at this time. Will that change down the road? Possibly. But even so, your average high school player won't go on to play in college, hell very few will play more than 1 year of college football. And up until that point will have had little major injuries occur to them.
I'm obviously much more intelligent than you give me credit for. Even if I'm a dumbass I know many things in life give that community feeling. Church programs do a tremendous job of doing that, probably better than football or really any sport as anyone of either gender can participate in those. I look at football the same way people view fraternities. There are negatives but the positives far outweigh those negatives.