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Former NFL Player Coy Wire Talks Making Football Less Dangerous

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🗓️ 14 September 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Is it really safe to let your kids play football? We've got correspondent and former professional football player Coy Wire on air to answer all of your questions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Get it the virtue. So maybe you have kids that are playing football right now and you're

0:06.2

starting to wonder in the long term. Is it really going to be healthy for them? I mean,

0:12.3

you saw Demar Hamlin last year, you see concussion after concussion in the NFL. So you might be

0:18.2

asking yourself, like, how healthy is it really for my kids to be playing football?

0:23.2

Or your child's coming to you and wants to play football and you're on defense about

0:27.1

whether or not you should even allow them to do it?

0:29.4

Koi Wire, who's always been a friend of the birch, a personal friend of Christens, is

0:33.1

on CNN, just did a special with Anderson Cooper called the whole story with Anderson Cooper.

0:39.9

Investigating a hard hit can football be safe and Koi's with us this morning. Hey, Koi,

0:44.2

what's up lovely people? How are you, my man? I'm doing well. It's here that I won

0:49.4

our man in a paper hanging contest. You know, it's interesting that we're having you back

0:55.6

on to talk about this now because the last time we had you on, we asked you the question

1:00.0

like as a guy that played in the NFL and had to go through all the injuries, which are

1:04.4

detailed a lot in this special which I watched half of it yesterday, which is really,

1:08.0

really great. He did such a good job, buddy. He did such a good job, man.

1:11.6

Some of these scary injuries we saw last year have many people questioning again, is football

1:16.8

too dangerous? Should we let kids play the game? And my reporting shows that the game is

1:23.1

not only safer than it's ever been, it's trending in a direction where it's only to continue

1:27.8

to get safer. All 50 states now have concussion protocols, which I think is super important

1:33.1

because that didn't exist before. We're seeing a lot of youth kids wearing guardian cats,

1:37.2

where it's like pillow-like pads that go over top of the helmet. We're seeing some of the things

1:41.7

that are happening at the pro level trickle down into the high school and youth levels. I think

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