Nobody does nanny stating better than New York Democrats.

Via NRO:

A state lawmaker is broadening his proposed ban on organized youth tackle football to include all kids younger than 14, citing what he described as mounting evidence of the vulnerability of children’s brains to even blows that fall short of causing concussions.

The current text of the bill, introduced in February, would have only prohibited tackling among players younger than 11.

But Assemblyman Michael Benedetto, joined at a Thursday news conference by a concussion expert from Boston University, said the risk to young teens’ still-developing brains is too great.

The Bronx Democrat also plans to introduce similar legislation to ban “heading” in organized youth soccer for kids younger than 14.

“Youngsters are particularly vulnerable,” said Dr. Robert Cantu, co-director of BU’s Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy, which examines the degenerative condition linked to head trauma. “We have six youngsters in our brain bank at BU who … have chronic traumatic encephalopathy shown at the high school level. So this is an entity that is already developing in these players.”