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Would You Sign the Form? Letting Your Kid Play Football

It's football season, and parents everywhere are holding a permission form, deciding whether to let their kid play. We know more about the brain now than we ever have — so we put it to each other straight: the form's in front of you, pen in hand. Would you sign it?

Nobody here is selling an answer. Matt's on the fence and didn't play football himself — he got pulled off the team in eighth grade over his grades and gave the rest of his life to baseball. Kevin says yes without hesitating; the game molded him, and he was a freshman starting quarterback on varsity with plenty to say about what it…

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