San Francisco
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When Austin Sheepo first told his girlfriend that he plays on his high school flag football team, she was a little confused.
“Isn’t that a girls’ sport?” she asked.
They attend different high schools, and at her school, “they have a real football team and a girls’ flag football team,” he said.
Real Football: The kind where kids tackle each other; the kind with violence, an unrivaled dominance in the cultural psyche, and concussion concerns. Real football is the stuff of Friday night lights, and the subject of concerning studies about C.T.E. even in young athletes.
Real football has “the risk of…