TheOak

I was born in 70' and safety was never a consideration lol. At 8 I received my first chemistry set along with my father telling me the ingredients for gunpowder so I made my own, it came with potassium nitrate (salt peter) and sulfur... mom beat my arse for destroying a cheese grader on a charcoal briquet. I also dabbled with black powder firearms as a teen and a few ounces if black powder in an empty whippet (CO2 cartridge) with a firecracker wick and a dab of wax and you can take a mailbox off its post.

I had my arm broken by someone that fell out of a tree, stepped on 1/2 a broken coke bottle with no shoes playing hide and seek, had my nose broken by a Frisbee, used to have 1 pump pellet gun wars, jumped everything I could find with my bicycle, tore my hamstring, couldnt tell you which fingers haven't been broken or jammed, ...

After that childhood, 6 years of football, 9 years of baseball, 4 years in the ARMY, 6 months of combat , 5 years in Nigeria, more mosh pits than I can count, and 12 years on drilling rigs throughout the world one would think I set out to die or become dismembered at some point... I didn't, it didn't happen.

I have daughters but if I had sons I would'nt stop them from playing any sports.

Boys don't come with vaginas, don't treat them like they do; emergency rooms and health insurance are for the accidents. Size is irrelevant, every team needs Safety's and punt returners.

During my time in Nigeria I watched infants ride on moms back or belly wrapped in a sarong as she worked in the field or the streets, children are resilient and a hell of a lot more durable that modern society recognizes. We would have never survived evolution if they weren't.