What you did is just bullying, not dealing with asshats. And football is violent. The constant hits over time lead to brain damage, many NFL players who go on killing sprees or commit suicide from it. I knew so many kids at high school or later who were seriously injured from football, and people would act like it's nothing. Teenage boys shouldn't be regularly tearing their ACLs where they have to get serious surgery and recovery time, and probably have a weak knee the rest of their lives.

Friends who played football talk about their injuries sometimes lasting the rest of their lives. We go on here about protecting the children and not injecting poison into them with the clot shot because it's so bad for their health outlooks, but we also shouldn't be letting them develop permanent brain damage or serious injuries just for a game like that. Football is not worth brain damage and permanent injury in teenage boys. There's plenty of other valid sports that are indeed much less violent and damaging.