Head's up: Bill would ban soccer headers

I may need to create a special section for "Municipal Ordinances That Are So Supremely Idiotic They Rival HOA Restrictions." It seems that a man who suffered a brain injury by falling down the stairs when he was two...

...is asking lawmakers to stop a potentially damaging practice among K-12 students: "headers," or when soccer players hit balls with their heads. "Brain injury or a concussion can change a soccer player's life if all soccer players uses his or her head as a battering ram," Edwards, 54, told the Legislature's joint Education Committee yesterday. Public and private school students also would be required to wear helmets during soccer matches under a bill Edwards crafted.