Forfeits in Iowa high school football continue: What's the answer?

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3. We have been wondering if the time would come when boys would quit playing football

Now that it is a given fact that violent sports like football can cause brain damage even if a person doesn't suffer a concussion, more and more boys and their parents are a lot less likely to want to play.

The long term costs and effects are simply too high.

That plus the huge movement into the cities and away from rural areas drain the available pool of boys. While Iowa's total population grows very little, Des Moines and suburbs are exploding, Iowa City and environs are exploding while rural counties continue to decline in population.

I thought it would take longer, but the Friday night football games in rural Iowa may soon go the way of 6-on-6 girls basketball.