Taking the numbers a step further, it would be interesting to know how may injuries occur per play type. The hard part would be defining what is an injury.
Not the answer to "how dangerous are kickoffs?" but an answer to "how dangerous is football?" was found
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Injury rates per 1,000 athletes per sport for 2012-13 season
Football 14.3
Girl's soccer 6.6
Boy's ice hockey 5.7
Boy's lacrosse 4.7
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Boy's swimming 0.2
Translated to Mama Bear & Papa Bear : Football is twice as dangerous for Baby Bear to play as any other sport
. Translated to we of football nation : Football injuries and the concern of concussions have put us in the media's eye. We need to do all that we can to pass and enforce rules to reduce these figures (12.1 occur ed during a game). I 've heard that 100 years ago the most popular sport among high-school age boys was...Golden Gloves Boxing - every Boy's Club and Community Center had a team. I worry about 100 years from now, people talking about "that brutal game called football
". We need to do all we can to ensure that our beloved game survives.