Line-backer's career maybe over

Serious injury occurred to linebacker

“Pete Stenhoff was a physically fit, 210-pound linebacker for Chula Vista High School when he planted his helmet in the chest of a ball carrier two years ago. He hasn’t walked since.

Medics that night rushed Stenhoff to the hospital, where he learned he had cracked vertebrae.

“Stenhoff is one of 20,000 youths who are injured playing high school football each year. Like Stenhoff, nearly 2,400 are permanently diabled. He is luckier than some. Thirteen youths died last year as a result of their injuries on the football field.”

“Football was always a dangerous sport. As far as physical contact goes, there is no sport that has more of it. But as dangerous as football has always been, it is more dangerous now than ever before and not so much because the game itself has changed, Michael Russell of Ezinearticles.com reports. “

NPR.org reports on a new study which suggests that the brutal hits in football players me be linked to a much higher risk of cognitive impairment. 

Despite his injuries, Stenhoff is not bitter. “I knew the risks involved when I decided to play football, but I wish I would have known just how bad it could be.”

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