Safety Systems Creating Moral Hazards

You are SO far behind the times.

Football players have been told for years to keep their face up, and not use the helmet as a weapon. Maybe I was lucky to have decent coaches, but even in the ‘70’s I was never taught to use my helmet that way.

I coach football, we go out of our way to make sure the kids know and understand the proper way to tackle or block, and that means getting your head out of the way.

We use drills and terminology that Pete Carroll started talking about with the Seahawks 5 or 6 years ago, it’s rugby style tackling, shoulder contact. But we’d been using the technique for a lot longer than that.

You and the article are right...if the safety systems are abused, it’s a bad thing. But that happens because people are stupid.

Maybe if we took the football helmet away, things would be different. But I’m not sure they’d be better, nor safer.

Maybe if we took 4wd away, people would learn to drive, or stop trying to drive too fast, or when they shouldn’t drive at all. But I doubt it.

Maybe we should take away motorcycle helmets and leathers or armored riding gear too?

Meanwhile, we have really popular MMA where it’s OK to knock a guy out with an elbow or knee, and then do it again a few weeks later, and then we have football, where it is illegal to use your helmet to attack, where you actually HAVE A $400 helmet to protect you, and yet....people are worried about football?

It’s all propaganda.

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Safety Systems Creating Moral Hazards