Today's Poll Question: Would You Let A Child Of Yours Play Tackle Football?

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Hi, gang. Today is Friday. It's the 28th of August, the 28th of August. Holy smokes. How do we get so far into the summer? 2026 I have a straightforward and I think worthy poll question today. Would you let a child of yours play tackle football?
I'm not gonna define it by age. I'm not gonna get into different gradations of the sport. I'm just instead asking it in a very straightforward and basic way. Dr. Chris Nowinski was on the program yesterday. He of CTE fame. And of course, the reason that I had him, I'm looking at this headline. It was page one above the fold on Wednesday. Study links brain disease to at least one in four in NFL. And of course, the suspicion is that it could be much higher than that. Would you let a child of yours play tackle football? Mow that over for just a moment while I thank my friends at Parks Casino. Summertime or any time, Parks Casino was my casino of choice. Has been since it opened.
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**Michael Smerconish** (4:18)
So as football season is getting ready to roll, I'm asking, would you let a child of yours play tackle football? It's funny, I remember back in the day, my brother had a really strong arm.
He was a really good quarterback in junior high and in high school. But what stands out in my mind is that he was concussion prone in junior high school. So much so that I can picture the helmets. It's insane when I think about the helmets that the little leather pads that would get sort of pushed into the helmet and you could pull them out.
I want to, I'm trying to think of what the word might be. It's not that they would be stapled in. What would the word be like TC? Like there were grommets. Do you know what I mean?