Bruce Arians Comments on Football Amid Criticism About Safety

April 10, 2016   ·   Joseph Zucker   ·   Jump to comments

Arizona Cardinals head coach Bruce Arians isn't letting the heightened concern over the risks of playing football diminish his passion for the sport.  
Speaking Friday to a group of high school coaches at a clinic sponsored by the Cardinals, Arians discussed what coaches at the youth levels need to do to ensure football's continued survival, per Robby Baker of KPNX in Phoenix:
This is our sport, it's being attacked. We have to stop it at the grass roots. It's the best game that's ever been invented. And we have to make sure that moms get the message, because that's who's afraid of our game right now. It's not dads it's moms. Our job is to make sure the game is safe, at all levels. The head really has no business being in the game. There's a lot of different teachers, but when I was taught how to tackle, and how to block, it was on a two-man sled. You did it with your shoulder pads. That's still the best way to do it.
Many took umbrage with the idea that mothers are ...

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