concussions are not just a football issue. they don t just affect grown men who choose to accept some risk to play a game that they love and excel at. every season you ve got boys and girls who are getting concussions in lacrosse, wrestling and ice hockey as well as football and in fact, the center for disease control reportses that in the most recent data that s available to us, young people made nearly 250,000 emergency room visits with brain injuries from sports and recreation. 250,000. that number obviously doesn t include kids who see their family doctor or as is typical don t seek any medical help. before the awareness was out there, when i was young and played football briefly there were a couple of times where i m sure that that ringing