{"id":4826,"date":"2016-07-21T14:57:58","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T18:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cte\/?p=4826"},"modified":"2023-07-03T15:47:57","modified_gmt":"2023-07-03T19:47:57","slug":"4826","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cte\/2016\/07\/21\/4826\/","title":{"rendered":"Study: Most Americans want end to tackle football before age 14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A majority of Americans \u2014 both sports fans and \u2028non-spectators alike \u2014 say the NFL has failed to \u2028address the problem of sports-related concussions, and believes tackle football before the age of 14 should be eliminated, according to a poll conducted by \u2028University of Massachusetts Lowell researchers\u2026<\/p>\n<p><em>Expert quote:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIt\u2019s fascinating. Public perception, as exemplified by this poll, is really greater than the current science truly indicates. \u2026 I find it amazing that the public has become so aware of this issue so quickly.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spr.ly\/6009BInsR\">View full article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A majority of Americans \u2014 both sports fans and \u2028non-spectators alike \u2014 say the NFL has failed to \u2028address the problem of sports-related concussions, and believes tackle football before the age of 14 should be eliminated, according to a poll conducted by \u2028University of Massachusetts Lowell researchers\u2026 Expert quote: \u201cIt\u2019s fascinating. Public perception, as exemplified [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4426],"tags":[4353,4451],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4826"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4826"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4828,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4826\/revisions\/4828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}