Well boys, enjoy watching football while you can. 30 years from now you'll all be soccer fans!!!
Nope, studies out this summer say that soccer is just as bad. I remember hearing an NPR deal this summer that said a lot of Youth teams and some minor leagues are already limiting the amount of headers in practice.
The soccer studies said that the hard hits aren't the ones that get the athletes. It's the repeated smaller ones that happen over and over and over, like headers.
There was talk this summer in the NFL about one solution to help minimize it amongst linemen is to eliminate the down stance and make them all start standing to help eliminate the repeated small contact on their helmets.
Obvs there is a bunch that we don't know about this, but given the frequency it is coming up, the large emphasis put on it, as well as the emphasis of sports amongst youth these days, you gotta think that we are on the threshold of some major effort to better understand this and react to it.
Something is going to change. Maybe not at the NFL level, but I would bet heavily that it will on the HS and younger crowd very soon.