“We have about 6 million young people playing Pop Warner flag football, about 1.2 million playing in high school, about 75,000 playing in college and about 1,800 that’s currently playing in the National Football League. I know this partnership is between GE and the NFL, but whatever their findings are, there’s going to be a trickle-down effect to eventually go down to colleges and high school and Pop Warner.”
~Dr. George Koonce Jr., who played in the NFL from 1992 to 2000 and now works at Marquette
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