I live in a football-mad state and I can’t remember the last time I saw kids playing full contact football. Flag football seems to have completely replaced it at the recreational level.

I don’t have kids so this is barely even an anecdote. I just live near a park with tons of fields and flag football seems as popular as baseball/softball/soccer. By high school, tackle football is still a huge deal but at the youth level, it seems like Pop Warner got replaced by flag football.