ARE WE KILLING KIDS FOR FUN?

There is nothing freakish or accidental about these deaths. They are willfully and knowingly put into harms way by obviously reckless and dimwitted people who believe that entertaining themselves is worth the risk. 

Official: Death of HS player a ‘freak accident’

The death of a 16-year-old varsity high school football player after an on-the-field collision during a game was “a freak accident,” the school’s superintendent said at a news conference Thursday.

“I think it was the result of a typical football play. It was just a freak accident,” Cohen said. “You know, the game involves contact, and it was the result of a freak football play.”

An average of 12 high school and college football players die every year from football-related accidents, according to a recent study in the American Journal of Sports Medicine. Concerns about hard hits have grown in recent years, and concussion management has gained renewed attention for the roughly 1 million boys who play high school football.

Two other deaths have come just recently.

Linebacker Isaiah Langston of Rolesville High School in North Carolina died after collapsing during Friday’s pregame warm-ups, family and the school district said Monday. Although he did not know the official cause of death, the player’s brother Aijalon Langston told ABC 11 that it was related to a blood clot in the brain.