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Joe Namath has no regrets about playing football, even as he deals with the ramifications.Namath, 74, who claims he suffered multiple concu sions during aPro Football Hall of Fame career that was cut short due to knee injuries, remains the only man to have quarterbacked the Jets to a Super Bowl victory. While he does not question his own playing of such a violent sport, Namath does give pause to the next generation.He specifically questions the appropriate age at which kids should begin playing tackle football."I dont have boys in my family; I have a couple of grandsons Mike Evans Jersey ,"Namath told Sporting News during a recent telephone interview. "If they want to play the game, more power to them at the right time. I think we need to allow children to develop more physically, let the body and brain to grow more."I'm not Men's Mike Evans Legend Jersey an advocate of some of the ages that some youngsters get involved in tackling football. I don't want to be negative about all that, to each their own. I do like how some of the retired players limit their children to playing contact football, maybe into the double digits or in their early teenage [years]."MORE: Are helmets part of the problem?Namath, an advocate for the treatment of traumatic brain injury, lends his support via the Joe Namath Neurological Research Center in Jupiter, Fla. He has had his own positive Adam Humphries Jersey experience with hyperbaric oxygen therapy and the use of a hyperbaric chamber for treatment, something he says can be used for a range of people, not just athletes who have suffered concu sions.Through suchtherapy and other methods he has witne sed at the center, Namath has seen people "literally get back to having a productive life; communicating again, talking again, being able to get out and get back to work again."Namath says he tries daily to stay sharp and keep his mind active. When asked whether he would change anything about his football career if he could do itover again, Namath said hes fine with the way things turned out."Whenever you have a subject you might want to second gue s,you might want to learn from it,"Namath said. "I don't second gue s. Game Doug Martin White Jersey Football to me is a great sport. Whatever your spiritual power, whatever name you give to our spiritual power, did a heck of a job putting us together. But the body is not designed to bend a certain way or hits to the head, neck or knees. To hit the ground a certain way, whether it is a football helmet or a bicycle helmet the head isn't supposed to go that way."I do hope we Doug Martin Jersey get smarter as a whole, not just the NFL but our society in general, in how we handle treating and caring for our brains."Namath was scheduled to host a gala event Tuesday at Ciprianis in New York to raise funding and awarene s for the research center.