Equipment

When your son plays contact or collision sports, there is always the risk of testicular injury.  To protect against such injury, boys need to wear a cup.

The National Athletic Equipment Reconditioners Association (NAERA)has announced that it will no longer accept football helmets for reconditioning and recertification which are more than 10-years old.  The policy, adopted at the group's annual meeting, will become effective at the start of the reconditioning season on September 1, 2011, as many schools have already paid for their helmets to be reconditioned for use this fall.

Players come and go, but football helmets get passed on to new players, season after season, year after year.  Here's some basic information parents should know about the football helmets their children are wearing.

The kind of football cleats that best suits your child depends on the position he plays, the surface on which he plays (grass or artificial turf), the amount of support and protection he wants against ankle injuries, how long he is planning to use the shoes and how much you want to spend.

If you know nothing about football, then you're probably wondering what all that bulk is under their uniform jersey and pants.   Its all the equipment players wear to protect them as much as possible for injury.

Whatever your child's position is on the football field, there's a football cleat for them. Football cleats are made both for the position the play and the type of field where you play. Keep these two important factors in mind when you purchase your football footwear.