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Should Massachusetts Ban Youth Tackle Football?
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Lawmakers on Beacon Hill have proposed a bi-partisan bill that would ban organized youth tackle football in Mass. until after 7th grade.
The push comes on the heels of a growing body of research that suggests youth football could be responsible for brain trauma and later-life emotional and cognitive problems.
The bill — proposed by Democrat, Paul A. Schmid III of Westport and Republican Bradley Jones Jr. of North Reading — would mean kids could still play touch or flag football, but tackling would be out, and organizers who violate the ban would risk having to pay up to $10,000 in fines.
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Jon Butler, executive director of Pop Warner Little Scholars. He tweets @PWLS.
Chris Nowinski, co-founding CEO of the Concussion Legacy Foundation and author of Head Games: The Global Concussion Crisis. He has a PhD in behavioral neuroscience from the Boston University school of medicine and tweets @ChrisNowinski1.
This article was originally published on March 27, 2019.
This segment aired on March 27, 2019.
