Despite all the best efforts of the fearmongering liberal media, most Americans and indeed most American parents, are perfectly fine with kids playing youth-league or high-school football, according to a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll. What's more, the so-called millennial demographic (18-34 year-olds) is among the demographic cohorts least concerned with kids playing the sport.
All the same, in promoting the story on their home page, msnbc.com sought to emphasize the minority of Americans who don't want kids playing football. "Ahead of Sunday’s Super Bowl showdown, nearly four in 10 Americans say they would encourage their child to play another sport other than football," reads the teaser caption for Mark Murray's story.
Readers who clicked the link and were taken to the story itself, however, would discover that there is little change this year over last year in terms of the poll question, and in fact, slightly MORE Americans this January than last are OK with kids playing football:
Ahead of Sunday’s Super Bowl showdown, nearly four-in-10 Americans – 37% – say they would encourage their child to play another sport other than football due to concerns about concussions, according to a newly released result from the most recent NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.
By contrast, 60% of respondents say they disagree and would back their children if they wanted to play football.
These findings are essentially unchanged from an NBC/WSJ poll from a year ago, when 40% said they’d encourage their children to play another sport, while 57% wouldn’t.
