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> isn't a sport that upper-middle class kids get involved in. This brings up a really interesting point I haven't seen addressed before - sports can be seen in
by headcanon 6y ago
> isn't a sport that upper-middle class kids get involved in.
This brings up a really interesting point I haven't seen addressed before - sports can be seen in some communities as a way to "get out". As more science gets out about the long-term effects about these sports, upper-middle class families whose children have more certain white-collar futures ahead of them won't do it, leaving the poorer kids to take on the risk.
America's always been happy to throw the poorest of us in the meat grinder, why not football?
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- Balgair 6y agoThe trick is that these sports then don't have as long of a life if the money isn't in it. Upper/middle class adults are less likely to want to spend money watching sports they never played in their youth. Maybe more so if they see the sport as barbaric. Exceptions abound, of course.
- cafard 6y agoa. If you search the NY Times, you can find a piece by a Black football coach talking about the tradeoffs for kids looking for a way up and out. b. Back in probably the 1940s, Joe DiMaggio said that no kid from a rich family every made it in the big leagues. Baseball, at least since helmets, is not that dangerous a sport.