WASHINGTON — Would you let your son play football?
Finding the answer to that question was difficult for President Donald Trump to answer.
“It’s very – it’s a very tough question,” President Trump said in a Face the Nation interview on Sunday.
Many Americans know the president is a football lover, but it does not mean he necessarily wants his son to play the game.
It was difficult finding people who disagreed with the president’s views in D.C.’s Georgetown neighborhood on Super Bowl Sunday.
“Probably not,” Seth Brodie responded.
“I would probably keep him away,” Lulie Dimaurl told WUSA9 about her son.
“If he wanted to, yes. Would I steer him that way? No. I wouldn’t,” President Trump said about his son, Barron, playing football.
President Trump called football a “dangerous sport” which likely referred to the hundreds of reported concussions over the years in the NFL.
“When you’re watching football, like just high school football, and you hear them fall – you hear the thud,” Laissa Aw cringed. “Ohhh!”
On average, NFL players had seen more than 240 concussions per year since 2012, but CBS reported a nearly 24% drop in concussions between 2017-2018.
The improved numbers came after the league took steps to reduce players’ injuries, such as, safer equipment, monitoring preseason practices, and implementing rule changes.
“Honestly, by the time we are adults and have children, it’ll probably be advanced where it’s impossible to get injured with the equipment and stuff like that,” Koutoba Diop said.
While many people WUSA9 spoke to in person did not want their children playing professional football, there are many parents in America who support their children’s decision to participate in the sport.
