Former NFLers Call for End to Tackle Football for Kids Tackle football, to be or not to be? That is the question everyone is asking after more and more football players are getting diagnosed with CTE. CTE is a brain disease that kills brain cells. Neuroscientists once thought that the disease is caused by concussions. They now know that that is not the case. CTE is caused by repeated hits to the body. CTE can majorly change your life. From the football Hall of Fame, Nick Buoniconti says that “I made the mistake starting tackle football at 9 years old. Now, CTE has taken my life away. Youth tackle football is a risk to us all.”
Before I read the article I didn’t really know that CTE was even a thing. I had to google it. I discovered that
Before I read the article I didn’t really know that CTE was even a thing. I had to google it. I discovered that